WINNSBORO – A new day may be dawning for the residents of Zion Hill and Fortune Springs Park neighborhoods. Planners hired by the county to look into the possibility of revitalizing the two neighborhoods are applying this week for a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to begin the first phase of a full scale, […]
Second Zion Hill meeting set for Sept. 10
August 29, 2019 By
WINNSBORO – After a well-attended community meeting last month, facilitated by the Central Midlands Council of Goverments (CMCOG) to assess the needs of the Zion Hill and Fortune Springs Park neighborhoods, CMCOG is ready to present residents a draft plan for meeting those needs. The community meeting will be held at the Fairfield High Alumni […]
Improvements slated for Blythewood intersections
April 18, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood area residents got a look last week at a new plan to improve traffic flow around and through the increasingly congested downtown streets as well as outlying busy intersections as far out as Blythewood Road and Hwy 321. The occasion was a public information and comment meeting hosted by the town government […]
Appointment to CMCOG causes stir
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The County Council meeting got off to an uneasy start Monday evening when Shirley Green, the second of three speakers during the first public comment session, suggested that an appointment was “about to take place that will raise eyebrows…because of an unethical situation of a council person appointing his landlord to the Central […]
