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Raised millage, deep cuts cast shadow over Fairfield budget

  • By Barbara Ball
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WINNSBORO – A proposed tax increase, cutting county departments by 10 percent, and other major budgetary matters came up during a Fairfield County Council work...

BW/Cobblestone lawsuit settled

  • By Michael Smith
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BLYTHEWOOD – When Lenore and James Zedosky moved from West Virginia to South Carolina, they didn’t envision spending nearly five years of their retirement locked...

Man arrested in Blythewood for setting woman on fire

  • By Barbara Ball
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BLYTHEWOOD – A man who doused a woman with gasoline and set her on fire was arrested in Blythewood on March 22. According to Lott,...

Harris denied bond for Fairfield murder

  • By Travis Jenkins, Chester News and Reporter
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CHESTER – Amber Nicole Harris, one of the two people charged with carjacking a Fairfield County woman and beating her to death last year was...

Richland Co. Sheriff: Gregg Martin arrested for sex crime involving a child

  • By Barbara Ball
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COLUMBIA – A Blythewood and Columbia-area photographer was charged with a sex crime involving a child, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department reported. Gregg Martin, 53,...

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Town of Winnsboro files lawsuit against County over solid waste fee

  • By Michael Smith
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WINNSBORO – Winnsboro is taking Fairfield County to court. On March 30, the Town of Winnsboro formally filed suit against the county, claiming in court...

County didn’t know its financial status for months

  • By Michael Smith
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WINNSBORO – Fairfield’s auditing firm concluded there’s a “significant deficiency” in how the county keeps its financials. “A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or a...

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