FAIRFIELD COUNTY – The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office is reaching out to the community for assistance in solving a homicide that took place in May, 2024. Investigators are renewing their efforts to bring closure to the victim’s family and seek justice for the heinous crime. On May 23, 2024, at approximately 11:25 P.M., the victim […]
Fairfield community celebrates Veterans Day
November 14, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – For the last three years, Albertha Woodard, Director of Fairfield County’s Veterans’ Affairs Office, has organized and hosted a luncheon to celebrate Veterans Day. And this year was no different. Approximately 100 veterans attended this year’s luncheon last week at the Boykin Recreation Center in Winnsboro. The focus of this years’ celebration was […]
COG seeks input on traffic congestion
November 14, 2024 By
COLUMBIA – The Central Midlands Council of Governments (CMCOG) is conducting a Congestion Management Processes (CMP) for Richland County residents. The CMP focuses on collecting and providing information to make informed decisions and allocate resources to manage current and future traffic congestion. According to COG, the CMP is a living document that continuously evolves over […]
Angel Tree brings joy to Fairfield seniors
November 14, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – The Angel Tree is a holiday tradition in the Fairfield community that makes Christmas special for about 250 of the county’s senior citizens. Staff members at the Council on Aging’s Senior Center fill the tree with paper angels representing the Council’s Meals on Wheels clients or a senior who eats and participates at […]
Goldbach, Stubbs wins confirmed by Election Commissions
November 8, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – At 10 a.m. Friday morning, the Fairfield County Election Commission reviewed 24 provisional ballots and one fail safe ballot (that were cast on election day) to determine their validity. The result of that review and determination failed to change the results of Tuesday’s election. Don Goldbach, who had a 10-vote lead over Ann […]
Blythewood Road night construction to resume Nov. 17
November 7, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood’s traffic was unexpectedly brought to its knees Thursday, Oct, 31 as the county began construction on Blythewood Road, closing one lane in preparation to work on the proposed traffic circle in front of Cobblestone Park, Blythewood’s representative to Richland County Council Derek Pugh said he received a number of complaints from the […]
Blythewoodian is one of 10 convicted for multi-state identity theft and fraud ring
November 7, 2024 By
COLUMBIA – Kasaun Dante Simmons, 27, of Blythewood, is one of ten defendants convicted in federal court for their participation in an identity theft and fraud ring based in Columbia with victims in at least South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Missouri, and New York. Simons pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and […]
Goldbach, Bell, Gadson win council seats
November 7, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – The results for the Fairfield County Council race are in. With a 71.28% turnout of Fairfield County registered voters, Don Goldbach (Dist. 2) bested Ann Corrao and one-term incumbent Shirley Greene. Carl Bell defeated one-term incumbent Tim Roseborough for the Dist. 4 seat. Oren Gadson won the Dist. 6 seat over candidate Sarah […]
Stubbs wins Dist. 17 seat
November 7, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – With 100% of the counties (Fairfield, Chester, York, and Lancaster) reporting Wednesday morning, Attorney Everett Stubbs has defeated incumbent Mike Fanning for the Senate seat in Dist. 17. According to SCVotes.gov, Stubbs took 27,914 to Fanning’s 27,882 with a margin of 32 votes out of 55,796 votes cast. Fanning received 6,374 in Fairfield […]
Fairfield woman charged with credit card fraud
November 7, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – On Oct. 16, 2024, a resident reported unauthorized charges after using their card at the CVS Pharmacy in Winnsboro. Following an investigation by the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office, investigators identified Shy’lexis Coleman, a CVS employee, as the suspect. Surveillance footage confirmed that Coleman discreetly took a photo of the victim’s card during the […]
