FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford has released the name of the Columbia driver, Jessica Rea, 35, who died after being involved in a motor vehicle collision, on Winnsboro Road (Hwy 321) near Wilson Circle, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. The head-on crash occurred at 11:57 a.m., when a 2021 Chevrolet SUV, driven […]
Blythewood council to increase legal budget to $140K
February 3, 2022 By
Baughman: I could care less if it (the lawsuit) adds up to $100K per month. We brought it on ourselves. BLYTHEWOOD – Town Administrator Carroll Williamson informed council during a budget meeting Friday morning that the Town’s outside legal team has advised increasing the Town’s budget for outside legal expenses from $60,000 to $140,000 through […]
Kennedy named interim Super for Charleston
February 3, 2022 By
CHARLESTON – Winnsboro native Donald R. Kennedy, Sr. has been named interim Superintendent of Charleston Schools. Kennedy has served as the district’s Chief Financial and Administrative Officer on two separate occasions, first from July, 2004 to September, 2007, and second from January, 2018 to December, 2021. Throughout his career in public service, Kennedy has supported […]
Trapp pushes back against Richland 2 statement
February 3, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – Following last week’s disruption at a Richland Two school board meeting that involved the superintendent and his wife, who some witnesses say cursed at a student, the district released a statement categorically disputing that the superintendent and his wife were in any way unruly toward a student, a parent, a candidate for the […]
Fairfield County to build spec building, tweak commerce center
February 3, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County plans to spend $500,000 toward the construction of a $5M spec building across from Bomag in the Fairfield Commerce Center off Peach Road. The county also plans to sell two undeveloped properties (circled in red on map) and ease design restrictions on those properties in the hope of making them more […]
Fairfield County bids farewell to community leader
February 3, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – It was in January, 1996, that both the South Carolina Senate and the House recognized Josie Gaston for her distinguished career in public office and for her loyal and unflagging service to the Fairfield County School Board of Trustees as well as her service as an officer, director and 1995 President of the […]
Bell, Pauley spar over budget, agenda and stamp machine
January 27, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Hardly a meeting passes without some back and forth between Fairfield County Council Chairman Moses Bell and Councilman Doug Pauley. But Monday night’s meeting was especially contentious, with the two council members sparing over county policy, budgetary matters and public comment policies. Things got off to a rocky start during discussion of how […]
Blythewood’s legal expenses skyrocket as MPA lawsuit simmers
January 27, 2022 By
Bender: Meeting In Which MPA Contract Was Terminated May Have Been Illegal BLYTHEWOOD – After Blythewood Mayor Bryan Franklin failed to timely turn over documents including texts and emails to MPA Strategies’ attorney Joseph Dickey that Dickey had asked for through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, MPA’s owner and CEO Ashley Hunter filed a […]
More chaos erupts at R2 school board meeting
January 26, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – The angst and hostility that’s come to define Richland School District Two school board politics over the last year erupted again minutes before Tuesday night’s board meeting was scheduled to open. An altercation which some witnesses said was sparked at least partially by the wife of the district’s Superintendent Dr. Baron Davis resulted […]
Two men arrested for shooting death of woman
January 25, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – Two men have been arrested in the shooting death of a Florida woman outside a bar at 7708 Fairfield Road, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. Malcolm Clinton, 26, and James Alterique White, 23, were charged with the murder of Joyell Snell, 45, of Fort Myers, FL. The incident occurred on Dec. […]
