This week’s report that the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) was closing 17 offices around the state – including their Winnsboro office at 414 A S. Congress St. – sent shock waves through a community whose unemployment rate continues to hover around 10.7 percent, well above the state average of 8.4 percent. The […]
The Evergreen Fiasco
February 7, 2013 By
Every Chief Executive Officer has hopes to make a positive mark on the organization they lead. Katie Brochu has been no different in her 2 ½ years as Superintendent of Richland 2 School District. In early 2011 she requested the School Board to sign a $25,000 contract with Evergreen Solutions to conduct a two-phase comprehensive […]
Trash Talk
February 7, 2013 By
The Fairfield County Council has adopted International Property Maintenance Codes. All homeowners and renters will have to pay to have their trash hauled off (308.2.1 Rubbish storage facilities: The owner of every occupied premises shall supply approved covered containers for rubbish, and the owner of the premises shall be responsible for the removal of rubbish). […]
The Last, Last Chance
February 1, 2013 By
The Town of Winnsboro is fortunate to have a physician serving as mayor; but not even the most gifted of healer can cure every ailment, and for the patient the Town has wired up in ICU right now, it may be time to consider bringing in Hospice. This patient – the Mt. Zion Institute building […]
The $40 Million Question
January 31, 2013 By
How does a $500,000 School District office renovation become a $40+ million dollar project? With a legal loophole that allows a $39,500,000 change order of a construction contract. • The motion in the Aug. 9, 2011 Board minutes reads, “To allow the administration to enter into a contract with the highest ranking offer and appropriate […]
All’s Fair in Love, and Fake Love
January 25, 2013 By
It is beyond belief all the hype surrounding the Notre Dame football player’s so-called love life. All this energy being spent. It probably will come out that he was “chumming the waters” for a Heisman. Still, it does not reach a level that the school should be holding press conferences. Are things like this so […]
Risk Management
January 25, 2013 By
Our society, like a great machine, is composed of many intricate, delicate moving parts, all of which must continue to spin in their designated orbits in order for the whole to function properly. No part, however small or subtle, is insignificant. There lies at the foundation of our machine a veritable army of men and […]
Openness at Risk
January 24, 2013 By
The Tuesday evening Richland 2 School Board meeting began with a moment of silent prayer at E.L. Wright Middle School. The new Consent Agenda format, adopted at the last meeting, allows items that are considered by the Board as routine to be grouped together and voted on in a single vote. The following are some […]
Time Heals All Wounds
January 18, 2013 By
America is the land of second chances. The notion lies at the very foundation of our country. From the time the first settlers set foot on our Eastern shores to the present day, America has stood out as a beacon of hope to people from all walks of life, from all over the world, as […]
Facts About Community Center
January 17, 2013 By
It has been said a lot lately that the Community Center was given to the Town to be sold and the proceeds used to pay for the park. That’s actually not exactly true. According to the agreement, the “building and land surrounding it was to go to the Town of Blythewood with no restrictions.” That […]
