Blythewood—A former Blythewood Town Councilwoman who helped bilk an estimated 17,000 people out of $28 million in fraudulent health care claims will spend 30 days in prison. Kathleen (Katie) Cauthen, 47, was also sentenced to 12 months of supervised release and ordered to pay nearly $1.8 million in restitution, according to a sentencing order filed […]
Wings & Wheels delights high flyers
May 17, 2018 By
GREENBRIER – “Wings & Wheels was a big success,” declared Fairfield County Airport Director Denise Bryan. “Our volunteer organizations were great.” Now Bryan is planning to build on her success by reaching out to more transient pilots to participate next year. Transient pilots from the surrounding area, like Tree Top Flyer, Larry Mawer and Jimmy […]
USA Today recommends Laura’s Tea Room for Mother’s Day
May 10, 2018 By
RIDGEWAY – The May 7 issue of USA Today, on newsstands Monday, featured Carol Allen’s Laura’s Tea Room in Ridgeway as one of ten tea rooms around the country that it considers perfect settings for Mother’s Day celebrations. Tea rooms in Pasadena, CA; New York City; Tampa, Florida and Salt Lake City, were among those […]
Lack of transparency still dogs JWC
May 10, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – Transparency complaints continue to muddy the waters of the Jenkinsville Water Company. Continuing a dispute that arose during the JWC’s meeting in April, several members of the public contested a murky vote taken by the board last month. “When you vote on items, when you don’t tell us what it is, we as […]
Prowler caught on home surveillance in Blythewood
May 10, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – When Summer Pines resident Kristen Locklear received a text from her home surveillance system Saturday morning, April 28, she said she checked the camera video and found footage showing a male driving into the cul-de-sac where her home is located. The time on the video was 2:30 a.m. “He parked his car, a […]
Vickers returns to shore up Chamber
May 10, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Terry Vickers, who retired last October from her post after 20 years as President and CEO of the Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce, is back in the saddle, but only long enough, she says, to help get the Chamber up and running after it foundered recently under new leadership. Alarmed after learning last […]
Skimming device on Blythewood ATM
May 4, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – When Blythewood resident Brandy Dunaway visited a Blythewood drive-thru ATM last Saturday, the card reader on the machine looked different. Dunaway, who was a victim of a skimming device at the same ATM a year earlier, was skeptical. The device was darker in color than the normal card reader and protruding from the […]
Chamber Board meets secretly; votes to become ‘inactive’
May 3, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The elephant in the room was not mentioned during the Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce’s monthly breakfast on Wednesday. That elephant was the surprise announcement on Monday that the Chamber Board voted for the Chamber to become ‘inactive’ as of June 30, 2018. While Facebook pages lit up with the news, neither the […]
Crime spree rattles Blythewood
May 3, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A month-long crime spree in downtown Blythewood, with crimes ranging from stealing bubble gum to auto theft and armed robbery, rattled the sense of safety for many in the community. Five Blythewood businesses and the Richland County Recreation Center were targeted between March 28 and April 26. With the help of GPS tracking […]
Blythewood man dies in motorcycle accident
May 3, 2018 By
COLUMBIA – Blythewood resident Christopher P. Dawkins died in a two-vehicle collision on April 28 at the intersection of Two Notch and Polo Roads in Columbia. Dawkins was the driver of a motorcycle that collided with a vehicle that pulled out onto Two Notch Road. Dawkins, who was not wearing a helmet at the time […]
