Booster Club Seeks Donations for Auction BLYTHEWOOD (Feb. 4, 2016) – It is the worst nightmare of any player, parent or coach – a debilitating injury that can end a season, terminate a career or alter a life forever. Sadly, that nightmare came true last fall. On Sept. 4, during week three of the 2015 football […]
Board OK’s Architect for Classroom Construction
January 29, 2016 By
Projects Not in District’s Budget WINNSBORO (Jan. 29, 2016) – During the Fairfield County School Board’s Jan. 19 regular meeting, Dr. J.R. Green, Superintendent, asked the Board to award a contract to the architectural firm, FW Architects of Florence, for engineering and design work for an expansion of Kelly Miller Elementary and Fairfield Middle schools so […]
Player of the Week –
January 29, 2016 By
Lady Griffins head coach Amelia Miller (right) and Griffin teammates congratulate Tanise Davis (center), who was the recipient of WLTX-TV’s Player of the Week Award on Jan. 20. Davis, a senior point guard for the Lady Griffins is a second-year captain averaging 15.1 points per game. She earned All-Region honors her last two seasons and […]
Bengals Hold Off Cyclones
January 6, 2016 By
Lady Bengals Come Up Short CHESTER (Jan. 6, 2016) – Zeke Washington had a happy homecoming Tuesday night. Washington, the former athletic director and coach at Chester who led the Lady Cyclones basketball team to a state title in 2004, was Tuesday on the visitor’s bench. His Blythewood Bengals boys’ basketball team took the lead late […]
Board Vacancy Filled without Election
January 1, 2016 By
RIDGEWAY (Jan. 1, 2016) – There will be no special election next month to fill the District 1 School Board seat left vacant by the Nov. 18 death of Andrea Harrison. Filing for the election opened on Dec. 4, with the final deadline for write-in candidates at noon Dec. 29. When that deadline passed, only one […]
School District Gets Clean Audit
December 25, 2015 By
WINNSBORO (Dec. 25, 2015) – A representative from the Fairfield County School District’s accounting firm, McAbee, Schwartz, Halliday & Co., presented the highlights of the District’s 2015 audit during the board’s regular meeting on Nov. 17. In a communication letter to the board, the auditors stated that they found the board’s financial records to be free […]
Board Extends Superintendent’s Contract
December 25, 2015 By
WINNSBORO (Dec. 25, 2015) – In its last regularly scheduled meeting for the year on Dec. 15, the Fairfield County School District Board of Trustees voted to extend Superintendent Dr. J.R. Green’s contract for another year. This rolled forward the ending date of Green’s six-year contract to June 30, 2022, and was seen as a vote […]
Board Spars Over Budgets
November 27, 2015 By
WINNSBORO (Nov. 27, 2015) – The Nov. 17 Fairfield County School Board meeting was a 3-hour marathon as the Board received the 2015 results of student testing, voted to award teacher/employee incentives and briefly reignited the issue of out-of-state and overnight field trips for students. Dr. J.R. Green, Superintendent, also hinted that the 2015 graduation rate […]
Board Members Loses Battle With Cancer
November 24, 2015 By
RIDGEWAY (Nov. 24, 2015) – Fairfield County School Board member Andrea Harrison lost her long-running battle with breast cancer last week, passing away on Nov. 18. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ms. Harrison,” Dr. J. R. Green, Superintendent of Fairfield County Schools, said. “She worked meticulously to achieve the goals of the district. […]
Results Vary on EOC Exams
November 20, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD (Nov. 20, 2015) – Scores from the 2014-2015 End of Course exams were up statewide, according to data released this month by the S.C. Department of Education, while locally numbers were mixed. Average scores across the state in Algebra 1/Mathematics for the Technologies 2 (AMT) inched up to 82.6 from last year’s 82.1. In Biology […]
