Shoppers, Merchants Ready for Sept. 11-12 Yard Sale Crawl BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Shops, restaurants, service stations, hotels and other merchants in Blythewood, Winnsboro and Ridgeway are stocked and ready for the invasion that will happen next week when the fourth annual 43-mile Big Grab yard sale descends on the three towns and everything in between. […]
Bengal Swimmers Earn State Times at Invite
September 2, 2015 By
AUGUSTA, GA. – The Blythewood boys swim team placed sixth overall out of 15 teams at the Yellow Jacket Invitational in Augusta, Ga. Saturday. Matthew Owens (100 fly), Hayden Kasavicha (200 IM, 100 fly), Sean Bell (100 free, 100 back) swam state qualifying times in their events. Ademar Cubero also qualified for state in the […]
Hawks Rally Past RNE
September 1, 2015 By
COLUMBIA – Westwood High travelled to Parone Stadium in Columbia Friday to take on the Cavaliers of Richland Northeast High School. After a halftime deficit of 14 points, the Redhawks were red hot in the second half, defeating the Cavaliers by a final score of 30-20. The annual Richland Northeast game is a rivalry of […]
Eagles Hammer Cathedral Academy
September 1, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – The Richard Winn Academy Eagles took care of business early Friday night as they cruised to a first quarter score of 42-6 over the visiting Cathedral Generals. In the second period, RWA tacked on two more touchdowns and went into halftime leading 56-6. Per SCISA’s rules, when one team leads by 40 or […]
Bengals Drop Blazers for 2-0 Start
August 31, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A week after an impressive victory last week over Upstate power Rock Hill High School, the Bengals of Blythewood High School looked to carry that energy Friday night to a 2-0 start. Led by their senior leaders, quarterback David Isreal and running back Osei Thomas, the Bengals defeated rivals Ridge View in a […]
Griffins Adjust, Thump Chester
August 29, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – Any head coach will tell you, a football team makes its greatest leap forward, makes the most improvements, between game one and game two. When the Fairfield Central Griffins walked off the field last week after a stinging 36-24 loss to Brookland-Cayce, it was clear there was plenty of room for those improvements. […]
Arch Stable, Funding Less So
August 28, 2015 By
RIDGEWAY – Phase one of the restoration of the old Ridgeway School arch, the last remaining structure from the long-ago demolished school and its auditorium on Church and Means streets, is complete, Councilman Heath Cookendorfer reported during Council’s Aug. 13 meeting. Funding for the rest of the project, however, remains in limbo. Cookendorfer told Council […]
A Little Bit of Everything
August 28, 2015 By
It’s been called the best country store in South Carolina. You can buy Virginia cured hams there, and you can buy gas, diesel, propane, shotgun shells, wrenches and frying pans. Why you can even buy hog heads for headcheese, red hash, fig jam, hoop cheese, Blenheim’s Ginger Ale and cheap wine there. As country stores […]
The Power of the Purse
August 27, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Eight women from Blythewood and the surrounding community recently toted their portable sewing machines to the Langford-Nord House on McNulty Road for an old fashioned sewing bee. Their focus on that evening was a project to help keep teenage girls in Zambia in school. That project is the Sew Powerful Purse Project and […]
