Eight of ten Richland 2 School Board candidates appeared in a Zoom forum Tuesday evening to talk about their platforms and priorities. James Mobley and Lawrence Terry did not participate. Below are what the candidates had to say. (Please note that in the Thursday, Oct. 22 edition of The Voice of Blythewood, the first paragraph […]
Blythewood schools benefit from $1M grant
October 8, 2020 By
COLUMBIA – Six Blythewood elementary and middle schools will benefit from a $1 million grant Richland School District Two recently received from the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). The Whole Child Initiative grant will provide college and career ready resources necessary to successfully build and/or expand the district’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics […]
Royal Bengals
October 8, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School held its homecoming on Oct. 2 in their home opener against Northwestern High School, Homecoming King Joshua Burrell and Queen Abby Jones, both pictured center, were crowned during the game. Runners up were Jordan Burrell, left, and Gail Ramos, right.
Green’s trustee evaluation mixed
October 1, 2020 By
WINNSBORO – Emblematic of how it usually votes on most major issues, the majority of Fairfield County school board trustees gave Superintendent Dr. J.R. Green glowing reviews on his annual performance evaluation. “Great job!” one trustee wrote. “Excellent continued work and leadership,” another trustee wrote. The accolades, however, come in spite of Green’s repeated non-compliance […]
Muller Road’s Cuffy named R2 Teacher of the Year
September 17, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD — In a surprise classroom visit today, Richland School District Two Superintendent Dr. Baron R. Davis announced the 2020-2021 District Teacher of the Year. Davis visited the classroom of Tryphena Cuffy virtually to make the announcement. Cuffy, a sixth grade teacher at Muller Road Middle School, was one of five finalists competing for the […]
Bickering boils over on R2 board
September 10, 2020 By
COLUMBIA – Divisiveness continues on the Richland Two school board, with a local pastor with close ties to the school board chairman using a trope with racial and sexist themes to describe another member of the board. A recent post to the Facebook account of Pastor Chris Leevy Johnson criticizes Richland Two board trustee Lindsay […]
Celebrating Dr. Green
September 10, 2020 By
WINNSBORO – A long parade of well-wishers in a vehicle caravan sporting sparkly signs and colorful balloons snaked past the Fairfield County School District office on Friday afternoon to congratulation Superintendent J. R. Green for being named Superintendent of the Year for South Carolina. Green and his family stood in front of the district office […]
Welcome to the jungle
September 10, 2020 By
Blythewood High School student leaders adapted their Freshman First tradition this year to be a drive-thru welcome to the incoming ninth grade class.
CCTC gives summer academic awards
August 27, 2020 By
SUMTER – Madison Sims, of Blythewood, was named to the Central Carolina Technical College’s (CCTC) Summer 2020 Full-Time student Dean’s List. Sims was among more than 25 students named to the Summer 2020 Dean’s List for Full-Time Students. CCTC’s Dean’s List recognizes students who were enrolled in at least 12 semester credit hours and achieved […]
Holland named new BHE principal
August 27, 2020 By
COLUMBIA — At a regularly scheduled board meeting Tuesday, August 11, 2020, Superintendent Dr. Baron R. Davis recommended and the Richland Two Board of Trustees approved the selection of Shannon Holland as principal of Bethel-Hanberry Elementary School Holland is well-known at Bethel-Hanberry Elementary School. She has spent the past four years serving as assistant principal […]
