BLYTHEWOOD – Bring your appetite – the 6th Annual Doko Ribfest Cook-Off will happen on Saturday, March 8 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Organizers say festival goers are in for a mouthwatering experience they won’t want to miss. “And that’s not all,” said Ribfest co-chair Mike Ross. “Ribfest is more than just incredible barbecue. […]
Judge grants injunction against BW mayor
March 3, 2025 By
COLUMBIA – A ruling has been handed down in the Town of Blythewood lawsuit in which four members of the Blythewood Town Council – Mayor Pro Tem Donald Brock, Rich McKenrick, Andrea Fripp, and Erica Page – filed for a temporary and permanent injunction to stop Blythewood Mayor Sloan Griffin from enforcing his Executive Order […]
Town Council meeting turns into donnybrook
February 27, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Monday night’s town council meeting began with Councilman Donald Brock making a motion to add an item to the agenda calling for several special called meetings. It ended three hours later with Councilman Rich McKenrick calling for a vote of no confidence in Mayor Sloan Griffin. A good thirty minutes of the meeting […]
Hensley: Fairfield property sales, valuations up
February 27, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – There’s good news about property values in Fairfield County. Most properties in the county have increased in value since the last reassessment in 2020, according to Fairfield County Tax Assessor Guerry Hensley. The bad news is, Hensley estimates that because of that increase in property values, most if not all properties in Fairfield […]
Ridgeway museum honors black history and Geneva Bell
February 27, 2025 By
RIDGEWAY – The Black History Celebration at the Isaac C. Thomas Historical Museum in Ridgeway last Saturday was special in many ways. Besides celebrating black history in the town where many of those in attendance grew up, keynote speaker Pastor Eddie Woods took his audience down memory lane, recalling his own time growing up there, […]
Scout Motors hosts three connection events in Blythewood
February 27, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Several hundred people attended a series of Community Connection forums in Blythewood last weekend. The event was hosted by Scout Motors to give local residents another opportunity to engage with the Scout team and see the company’s concept vehicles in-person. The meetings were held over three days at Doko Manor – Wednesday, Friday, […]
Mack wins 3rd title, makes SC history
February 27, 2025 By
FLORENCE – Tiyanna Mack leaves her historic wrestling career on to. Wrestling in the 130lb class, Mack claimed her third straight individual state title on Saturday in Florence. Setting history for South Carolina, Mack is the first ever female three-time state champion for the state’s High School League. Mack finishes the 2024-2025 season with a […]
Richland County Council to vote on multiple Blythewood developments Feb. 25
February 20, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A number of rezoning requests for both commercial and single and multi-family residential development in Blythewood 29016 are scheduled to come before Richland County Council for a public hearing Tuesday, Feb. 25. The first of three required votes on the rezoning requests will be taken at that meeting. Of the three required meetings, […]
Gilbert appoints select councilmen to standing committees
February 20, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Following adjournment of the Feb. 10 Fairfield County Council meeting, Clerk to Council Kimberly Roberts handed out to all council members a list of the 2025-26 appointees to council’s five standing committees. County Council Chairman Clarence Gilbert made the appointments – a chair and two members for each committee – as required by […]
Hearing on injunction filed by Town of Blythewood set for Feb. 21
February 20, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Friday, Feb 21 has been set for Judge Daniel Coble to hear a motion for an injunction filed by the Town of Blythewood against Blythewood Mayor Sloan Griffin. In a Motion for Injunction filed Feb. 11 with the Richland County Court of Common Pleas, four Blythewood Town Council members asked the Court to […]
