FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Looking for a great family outing this summer? Bring the kids along for a fun weekend in the countryside at the Ag+Art Tour, June 27-28 – rain or shine! This year’s free, self-guided tour through Fairfield County includes six rural farm sites and will feature local artisans, farmers’ markets, barnyard animals, hayrides, […]
Economic Development Director Steps Down
June 19, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – Tiffany Harrison, Fairfield County’s Director of Economic Development since 2006, announced her resignation last week, effective July 2. Harrison has accepted the Executive Director position with the Midlands Education Business Alliance in Columbia, an organization that fosters work-ready educational needs. “It’s a great opportunity to support economic development from the workforce side,” Harrison […]
Working Lunch –
June 18, 2015 By
Blythewood’s Salkehatchie is in full swing, and the first work-day meal was served at noon on Monday at Fair Lawn Methodist Church on Fairfield Road. More than 100 students converged on the town last weekend prepared to make repairs to six homes in the community. The annual good work will end on Sunday. Lining up […]
B.A.R. Gives First OK to Office Building
June 18, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town’s Architectural Consultant, Matt Davis, stepped out of that role on Monday evening during the Board of Architectural Review meeting to represent the applicants for a medical office to be located at 121 Blythewood Road, across from Companion Animal Hospital. Designed to be shared by two private medical practices, a pediatrician and […]
Find Your Fit, Find Your Faith
June 18, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD/WINNSBORO – It begins in the predawn darkness, when first light is but a rumor. The morning’s fist birds are warming up in their arboreal alcoves, the air not yet filled with their flitting chorus. As the sunrise splits the horizon and spills its first rays, painting the landscape in an ethereal glow, the shadows […]
Blythewood Man Faces Child Porn Charges
June 17, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A Blythewood man was arrested last week, charged with six counts of sexual exploitation of minors. According to the office of S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, a search warrant was executed on June 11 on the Lakemor Court home of Samuel James Robison III, 77, where computers and other electronic equipment were seized. Robinson, […]
Native Son Wins Lit Prize
June 10, 2015 By
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Winnsboro literary sensation Jack Livings has won the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for his debut collection of short stories, “The Dog,” which was published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The $25,000 prize was announced Monday night at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony at The New School in New […]
Cabin Carpenter’s Dream Meets Premature End
May 29, 2015 By
NEAR ANCHOR POINT, ALASKA – At age 76, Adolf Weitzel of Ridgeway was living his dream – retired from the homebuilding industry, he was building a log cabin on 3 acres of coastal wilderness in Alaska. He was building the cabin off the land by himself. His story appeared in the Sept. 6, 2013 issue […]
Poetry in Motion –
May 21, 2015 By
Blythewood poet Kelley Lannigan (far right) with U.S. Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco at a recent poetry workshop in North Carolina. Blanco composed the poem, “One Today,” that was read at President Barak Obama’s second inaugural ceremony in 2013. Lannigan was one of 12 poets selected to participate in the advanced poetry workshop in conjunction with […]
Stars Shine at State Meet
May 20, 2015 By
COLUMBIA – Athletes from Blythewood, Fairfield Central and Westwood high schools poured out the final drops of sweat in track and field’s spring 2015 campaign, vying for medals at the state meet last weekend at Spring Valley High School. Although none of our local athletes took home gold this year, a pair of bronze medals […]
