RIDGEWAY – With the filing deadline ending on Feb. 2, four candidates have declared for the two open seats on Ridgeway Town Council and two have declared to run for mayor. These candidates will be on the April 3 ballot: Council – Roger Herring, Rick Johnson, former mayor Rufus Jones and Dan Martin; Mayor – […]
SCE&G asks for venue change
February 8, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – South Carolina Electric and Gas Company has filed a motion for a change of venue for the lawsuit Fairfield County filed on Nov. 29, 2017 against the utility for a temporary injunction. The matter is to be heard on Thursday before Judge Paul Burch. “SCE&G is asking to have the trial moved to […]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
February 8, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Be the first to sign up for Blythewood Presbyterian Church’s CSA (Community Supported Garden) next to Round Top Elementary School on Rimer Pond Road. For more information (and lots of fresh veggies) contact garden managers Victoria and Shane Veldhuizen at 763-244-7958.
Redhawks seniors honored
February 8, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Redhawk senior basketball players and cheerleaders were honored at their home game against Lancaster on Friday. From left, Cheerleaders: Jessica Dyarmett, Delilah Jacobs, Mattie Meiklejohn, Ma’Kayla Tompkins, Arianna Wilson; Boys Basketball: Brian Horn, Mr. and Mrs Hawkins (parents of the late Ellis Hawkins), Sam Stroman, Jalen Peachers; Girls’ Basketball: Mya Belton, Ave’ Parker […]
Ridgeway Dollar General robbed again
February 1, 2018 By
RIDGEWAY – In yet another daring robbery at gunpoint of the Dollar General store in Ridgeway, a gunman got away with $1,400 after threatening to shoot the store’s manager during an early morning heist on Sunday, Jan. 28. The store manager reported that as he was in the process of stacking items for display outside […]
Routine checkpoint becomes high speed chase
February 1, 2018 By
RIDGEWAY – A high speed chase that began in Ridgeway, ended on Garner’s Ferry Road and reached 123 miles per hour, resulted in attempted murder charges for Michael Odell Lewis, 24, of Columbia. The incident began during an early evening traffic safety check conducted by the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Department at the intersection of Syrup […]
Providence to break ground on new ER
February 1, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The construction of the new emergency services facility for Fairfield County and North Richland is about to begin. The ground breaking for the new Providence Health – Fairfield Emergency Room will be held Feb. 15 on property located across the Highway 321 Bypass from the Winnsboro Bi-Lo. Plans for the one-level, 17,700 square […]
Davenport: Fairfield County short on inventory
February 1, 2018 By
RIDGEWAY – The County’s Director of Economic Development, Ty Davenport, is tickled pink that the county has a potentially interested buyer for its only spec building, a 75,000 square foot big box in the Walter Brown Industrial Park off Cook Road, but his elation is exceeded by his worry that the County doesn’t have the […]
Gunshot fired through window of Blythewood home
February 1, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A Blythewood family was not at home on the afternoon of Jan. 12 when a bullet came crashing through the breakfast room window of their home and traveled through a kitchen cabinet, into the dining room before embedding into an adjacent wall. “It had to have happened between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. […]
FMH finances still sliding; New FMH fund request may be near
January 25, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – A presentation of Fairfield Memorial Hospital’s increasingly difficult financial situation during recent Board meetings indicates that the Board may be inching closer to having to ask County Council for a new infusion of funds. So far, a funding request has not been discussed in public meetings. Sources say a funding request could come […]
