WINNSBORO: The Voice received clarification this morning that two people, not three as previously reported, were shot in last night’s shooting in the Drawdy Park area behind the Fairfield County Administration Building in Winnsboro. One victim was shot in the leg and another was possibly grazed by a bullet. A third victim, who was injured […]
Pig on the Ridge survives up/down vote
October 18, 2018 By
POR Committee Seeks 75 Volunteers RIDGEWAY – It appeared last week that the almost 20-year-old Ridgeway institution – Pig on the Ridge – was about to breathe its last. The festival survived an up or down vote by the hair of its chinny-chin-chin when the POR steering committee voted 3 – 1 on Oct. 11, […]
Randal Sisk animal cruelty case dismissed
October 18, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Another Fairfield County animal cruelty case has concluded with no jail sentence imposed. Winnsboro resident Randal Sisk is no longer facing an ill treatment of animals felony charge that was filed in July. The case was dismissed during a preliminary hearing in magistrate’s court and was never sent to Circuit Court. Online court […]
Richland 2 discipline issues increase
October 18, 2018 By
Blythewood – While in-school suspensions are generally trending downward in Richland 2, the opposite is true of out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, including at Blythewood area schools. Both Blythewood area high schools and all three middle schools reported increases, as did one elementary school, according to online state report cards published by the S.C. Department of […]
Blythewood woman sentenced to 30 months
October 18, 2018 By
COLUMBIA – Teresa Yarborough-Walker, age 50, of Blythewood, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for Theft of Government Funds. She was also ordered to pay over $416,000 in restitution. Judge Mary Geiger Lewis presided. Walker pled guilty in April to stealing approximately $416,257 in federal funds, United States Attorney Beth Drake stated. Evidence presented […]
Winnsboro Dept. of Public Safety seeks robbery suspect
October 18, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The Winnsboro Department of Public Safety is seeking information on the identity of a man suspected of an armed robbery of First Citizens Bank in Winnsboro on Oct. 12. A black male wearing a Batman hat and a Bob Marley t-shirt handed a bank teller a note demanding money shortly before 6 p.m., […]
Author brings book home to Winnsboro
October 11, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Nelle and John Gettys Smith and their children Gettys, Spenser, and Ora, moved to Hilton Head Island in 1963 to take over the work of Charles Frazier who was developing the Sea Pines community. These many years later, Nelle, 86, and now a widow, and her daughter Ora have collected their memories of […]
Candidates for County Council map out plans
October 11, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Winding down to Nov. 6, six Fairfield County candidates aren’t worried about the outcome of their races. Norma Branham (County Treasurer), Judge Pam Renwick (County Probate), Peggy Hensley (County Auditor), Henry Miller (School Board Dist. 3), Carl E. Jackson, Jr. (School Board Dist. 5) and Eric F. Cathcart (Soil & Water Conservation Dist. […]
Wallace contends at Pebble Beach
October 11, 2018 By
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – Kendall Wallace is living the dream – playing a tournament with the likes of three-time US Open Champion Hale Irwin and some of the top CEO’s nationally, and chatting casually with Fred Couples, the 1992 Masters champion, on the putting green at Poppy Hills Golf Course. But that’s life these days […]
Council votes 5-2 to renovate Mt. Zion for Administration Building
October 8, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – It wasn’t quite as dramatic as the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, but there still was plenty of suspense at Monday night’s Fairfield County Council meeting. Council members gave final reading to an ordinance authorizing the county to move forward with an $11.5 million plan to build a new government center at the site of […]
