BLYTHEWOOD – Booth Chilcutt, the Director of Events and Conference Center (The Manor) will be leaving his position the end of April for what he calls, ‘retirement’… real retirement this time. Chilcutt said he came to work for the Town as assistant to the Director in March 2013 freshly retired as Director of the Sumter […]
Industry Getting a Lift
April 9, 2015 By
Planning Commission OK’s Height Increase BLYTHEWOOD – The Planning Commission voted to give Blythewood’s economic development consultant, Ed Parler, what he asked for and more on Monday evening – a recommendation to Town Council for an extension on the height of industrial facilities, from 35 feet to 100 feet, in the town’s newly proposed Limited […]
Griffins Take Game 3 from RWA
April 8, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – After evening up the season series over spring break at one game apiece with a come from behind 5-2 win over Fairfield Central, the Richard Winn Academy Eagles baseball squad fell in the hole two games to one Monday night. The Griffins used just seven hits, capitalizing on a full dozen walks and […]
Bengals Hand 10 on ‘Hawks
April 8, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood bats are starting to come around. The Bengals banged out 11 hits, including four for extra bases, to get past and ultimately rout crosstown rival Westwood 10-1 Tuesday night at Redhawks stadium. “We’re getting a little better,” Blythewood head coach Barry Mizzell said. “We’re getting used to being without the guys […]
Travels with Charly
April 3, 2015 By
Wounded Stray Homeward Bound WINNSBORO – ‘Break a leg’ is a common saying in theater meant to wish a performer good luck. Well, it apparently works for dogs, too. It certainly did for Charly. The black Australian Shepard puppy, at about 5 months old, was found with a severely injured back left leg last summer […]
Pure Roadside America
April 2, 2015 By
DILLON — When the concept of the summer vacation stormed America in the late 1940s, it fired up the imagination of people stuck on the road to “there.” Dreamers created roadside attractions to snare all that loose change rolling right past them. That other change, however, caught up with them. All these years later, all […]
Rimer Pond Road Issue Heads to County Planning Commission
April 2, 2015 By
Property Owners Seek Commercial Zoning BLYTHEWOOD – The owners of two separate properties on Rimer Pond Road will come before the Richland County Planning Commission Monday at 1 p.m. to request the zoning on their properties be changed from Rural (RU) to Rural Commercial (RC). One is a 2.76 acre parcel (tax map number R15100-06-26) […]
Bengals Drop SCDI Opener to ‘Cats
April 1, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood baseball bats came around against Lexington in the opening round of the S.C. Diamond Invitational Tuesday night. But Wildcats pitcher Cordes Baker ensured that three Bengals extra-base hits and three singles weren’t costly. Baker went the distance and struck out 12 of the 26 batters he faced as Lexington closed out a […]
Eagles, Griffins Break Even
April 1, 2015 By
RWA Mends After Monday Mauling WINNSBORO – What a difference a day makes. A mere 24 hours after Fairfield Central hammered Richard Winn Academy 14-0 in Monday’s game one of the crosstown spring break rivalry, the Eagles bounced back off the matt to nip the Griffins 5-2 at RWA Tuesday afternoon. “I let that game […]
Baseball Tourney Hits Blythewood
March 31, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The S.C. Diamond Invitational, Blythewood High School’s 10-team, five-day baseball tournament, kicked off with four games Tuesday and is in full swing heading down the weekend stretch. In its fifth year, the Invitational continues to draw some of the top teams in the state at the Class 3A and Class 4A level. This […]
