WINNSBORO – Beginning April 8, 2024, the Probate Court office will be located at 260 Bratton Street in Winnsboro, directly behind the county administration building. On or before April 30, the following services will be relocated to the addresses listed below: The Fairfield County Auditor, Treasurer and Delinquent Tax Collector will be temporarily relocated to […]
Voice Publisher elected VP of SC Press Association
March 21, 2024 By
COLUMBIA – The Voice’s publisher, Barbara Ball, was elected vice president of weekly newspapers for the South Carolina Press Association last week after a vote of the Association’s membership during its annual meeting at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Ball, who owns The Voice of Blythewood and The Voice of Fairfield County, served as treasurer […]
Martin arrested again for crimes against child
March 20, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – New charges have been brought against former Blythewood photographer Gregg Martin, who was previously arrested for crimes against a child. On March 19, 2024, at approximately 6:30 a.m., Richland County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a location of a wanted suspect on Wilson Blvd. in Blythewood. Deputies had been notified of and made […]
Auditor issues county clean opinion and material weakness
March 14, 2024 By
Audit Presented Late for Third Consecutive Year WINNSBORO – Fairfield County failed to follow “certain accounting, reporting, and reconciling procedures,” resulting in incomplete and inaccurate financial reporting, according to the 2023 audit. Mauldin & Jenkins, the Columbia financial firm that conducted the audit, issued a “material weakness” in the audit. The material weakness stems from […]
County hires auditor to appeal $1.4M IRS debt
March 14, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – Following an update given by the county’s Interim Administrator Clay Killian concerning the county’s $1.4 million in IRS fines and penalties, council members voted unanimously to appropriate $40,000 to enlist the county’s auditing firm, Mauldin & Jenkins, to assist the county in erasing some of those tax penalties and interest owed to the […]
Sheriff’s Office adds K-9 unit
March 14, 2024 By
AIRFIELD COUNTY – The arrival of a longtime expert at working with law enforcement’s dogs has led to the launch of a new K-9 program at the Fairfield County Sheriff’s office, with two dog handlers and their K-9 partners now operational and assisting with a variety of tasks. “It’s kind of unusual because we started […]
Letter: Fear Not- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
March 14, 2024 By
At Monday night’s county council meeting, the auditor pronounced the county’s audit as a “clean audit,” and we were told, for the third time in three years, that the next audit will be done on time. Meanwhile the patient (the county’s finances) has all the earmarks of being very fiscally sick. Truly, that clean audit […]
WDPS Chief Kevin Lawrence resigns
March 7, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – Winnsboro Town Administrator Jason Taylor announced Thursday afternoon, March 7, that Winnsboro Department of Public Safety Chief Kevin Lawrence had resigned his post effective March 6. Taylor gave no details as to why Lawrence resigned. Lawrence was hired as Interim chief in September of 2022, after the Town’s former Chief John Seibles retired. […]
Mill Village facing waterline repairs, boil notice advisory
March 6, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – The Town of Winnsboro experienced a break in a Mill Village water line on Poplar Street several weeks ago. Repairs of the waterline are set for next week. The area affected by the repairs will extend to all customers on both sides of Columbia Road from 2nd Street all the way to 11th […]
