WINNSBORO – Furniture and office equipment will be moved into the new County Administration Building beginning Thursday, April 14. Developer Rory Dowling, principal with 1st and Main, and William Louder, who has overseen the project for the last several months and is assisting the county in the transition, gave The Voice a tour of the […]
Man arrested in Blythewood for setting woman on fire
April 14, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A man who doused a woman with gasoline and set her on fire was arrested in Blythewood on March 22. According to Lott, 41-year-old Keitrick Stevenson was arrested without incident at a home in Blythewood Tuesday morning by the Midlands Gang Fugitive Task Force and Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Response Team. “I’ve […]
Harris denied bond for Fairfield murder
April 14, 2022 By
CHESTER – Amber Nicole Harris, one of the two people charged with carjacking a Fairfield County woman and beating her to death last year was denied bond Friday by Judge Paul Burch. The body of Linda Robinson was spotted on the side of Carpenter Rd. last August. She’d left her Blackstock-area home a few hours […]
Carrying the Cross
April 13, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – For the last seven years, a Blythewood men’s workout group called F3 has been meeting for boot camp style workouts at 5 a.m. and finishing before the sun comes up. Normally, on Fridays, the group rucks four miles with weighted backpacks. On Good Friday, they will be holding a special workout, something they’ve […]
Richland Co. Sheriff: Gregg Martin arrested for sex crime involving a child
April 12, 2022 By
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, was arrested April 8 after deputies received a report of him taking inappropriate photographs of a young girl under his care, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. An […]
Town of Winnsboro files lawsuit against County over solid waste fee
April 7, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Winnsboro is taking Fairfield County to court. On March 30, the Town of Winnsboro formally filed suit against the county, claiming in court papers that the county’s solid waste fee shouldn’t apply to Winnsboro town residents. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the $63 per ton fee is “invalid and illegal”, according […]
Noted Jenkinsville artist Herman Thompson dies
April 7, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – The passing of Herman D. Thompson, 74, of Jenkinsville on March 29 was noted by more than his friends and family. The S.C. State Museum posted on its Facebook that museum personnel were “saddened to learn of the passing of Thompson,” stating that he was a self-taught folk artist and close friend of […]
Richland County PC defers controversial mass rezoning
April 7, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – Richland County Council chambers were packed Monday afternoon with residents from throughout the county. They were there to express their concerns, fears and objections to Richland County’s proposal to rezone all 375,000 acres of unincorporated land in the county. Unincorporated land is all land that is not within the town limits of a […]
Eagle girls clinch first state title, program’s second in 2 years
April 7, 2022 By
SOCIETY HILL – In just five short years, the Richard Winn Shooting Team has boomed, both literally and figuratively. On Sat., April 2, the twenty-five member team, ten coaches, parents, friends and family members traveled to Moree’s Sportsman’s Preserve and Sporting Clays in Society Hill for the SCISA State Championship competition. There were 19 schools […]
Ridgeway elects mayor and two council members
April 6, 2022 By
RIDGEWAY – Ridgeway voters had their say during the town’s mayoral/council election on Tuesday. Incumbent Heath Cookendorfer was re-elected to a second term with a 10-vote margin. Cookendorfer received 53 votes over former Ridgeway councilman and mayor Rufus Jones who garnered 43 votes. Jones has served the last four years on council. His term expired […]
