In a matter of just five days, the Richard Winn Lady Eagles added three more wins to their already impressive resume’ and ran their overall record to 23-1 and 8-0 in their region. The RWA varsity girls are a surefire lock in the 2A SCISA state playoffs after clinching the regular season region title. Their […]
Back-to-Back Region Losses End Blythewood’s Playoff Hopes
February 7, 2013 By
Last Friday, the Blythewood Bengals basketball team (9-14, 2-7) was defeated by Lugoff-Elgin (9-13, 1-8) on the road 49-40. The 40 point total by the Bengals is their lowest offensive output on the season. Blythewood head coach Zeke Washington was disappointed after the game. “It was a tough game and we didn’t play well,” he […]
Hail to the Chef –
February 7, 2013 By
Blythewood High School’s new culinary arts chef, Tom Sedio (second from left), with three of his culinary arts students, Katie Kuhn (left), Eddreeka Henry and Dallas Bailey, as they display some of the 60 or so box lunches they prepared last week for Bistro 801. Bistro 801 is a fundraiser for the culinary program and […]
City Manager to Speak at Gethsemane Baptist Church –
February 7, 2013 By
Teresa Beaudell-Lugenia Wilson, the recently named City Manager of Columbia, will speak at her church, Gethsemane Baptist in Blair, Sunday at 10 a.m. in recognition of Black History Month. A native of Columbia, Wilson graduated from Irmo High School, the University of South Carolina Honors College and the University of South Carolina School of Law. […]
Library Patrons ReJoyce –
February 7, 2013 By
It was another fun event at the Blythewood Library last Friday night. Library manager Shirley Carter, left, invited Blythewood’s Richland County Council representative Joyce Dickerson to enjoy refreshments and visit with the library’s patrons. The patrons took the opportunity to lobby Ms. Dickerson about the possibility of adding a meeting room to the county facility. […]
DOT Begins Work on Rimer Pond Road
February 7, 2013 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Construction is expected to begin in June to straighten and widen some of the curve on Rimer Pond Road. The half-mile long project is federally funded as part of the S.C. Department of Transportation’s Safety Improvement Program. When a statistical comparison was made with other one-half mile sections of roads around the state […]
Griffins Plaster Pelion
February 4, 2013 By
In a game that was never in doubt, the Fairfield Central Griffins hammered the Pelion Panthers on the road Friday night, 61-39. Keith Workman led the Griffins with 19 points on the night, followed by Compton Walker with 14. The Panthers struggled to find the handle on the ball all night, turning it over to […]
Lady Griffins Wear Down Pelion
February 4, 2013 By
While the offense sputtered through three quarters at Pelion High School Friday night, the Fairfield Central defense managed to keep the game within reach, long enough for the offense to find its spark and grind out a 51-39 win over the Lady Panthers. The Lady Griffins trailed throughout the game, and were down 33-30 going […]
Village Church Opens Another New Sanctuary
February 3, 2013 By
In 2002, Wendell Estep, pastor of the First Baptist Church on Forrest Drive in Columbia, sent out five church seeds around the Midlands to be planted. His son, Pastor Erik Estep and his wife Emily and their three young children Hank, Glyn and Janie were to plant one of those seeds in Blythewood. That seed […]
Get on the Bus, Gus –
February 1, 2013 By
Director of Transportation Daniel Miller, Superintendent of Schools J.R. Green, Transportation Shop Foreman Luke Patrick and Transportation Supervisor Terry Milton recently welcomed the second special needs bus into the district. The bus is equipped with a wheelchair lift, heat and air conditioning.
