RIDGEWAY – A quarter-million-dollar gas line project being undertaken by the Town of Winnsboro will bring natural gas to Ridgeway – and Winnsboro town hall wants to hear from residents and business owners who are interested in connecting to the new gas line. “This is a request that the town council of Ridgeway has made, […]
Celebrating Black History: Looking Back – Reaching Forward
February 29, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The annual Black History Month Celebration organized each year by the Blythewood Historical Society, lived up to its theme last Saturday – ‘Looking Back – Reaching Forward’ – with two locally and nationally recognized speakers who did just that. Jim Felder, a political and civil rights activist from Sumter, S.C. served as pallbearer […]
Blythewood council meeting was deja vu all over again
February 29, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – It was very much like old times at the Monday night council meeting. New Councilwoman Andrea Fripp took to the podium to question why council will not convene in executive session to re-discuss the now settled (with prejudice) 2021 MPA/Town lawsuits. By meeting’s end, it was a donnybrook with Fripp repeatedly interrupting and […]
Scout Motors breaks ground
February 22, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Scout Motors broke ground on its production center in Blythewood on Thursday, hosting two ceremonies – a morning session primarily for media and local, county and state officials who were eminently involved in bringing Scout to South Carolina, and an afternoon session for only Blythewood residents that provided an update on the project […]
5 vie for Blythewood Council seat
February 22, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A special election will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 27, for one open seat on the town council. Blythewood voters will go to the polls to select one of five candidates to fill the unexpired term of former Councilman Sloan Griffin who was elected mayor last November. If a runoff is necessary, a […]
McDaniel secures another $500K for downtown Winnsboro restoration
February 22, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – Winnsboro Town Manager Jason Taylor announced during Tuesday night’s town council meeting that the Town received a second $500,000 state budget allotment earlier that day that was awarded last summer through a Parks, Recreation, and Tourism grant. It is the second $500,000 state budget allotment Rep. Annie McDaniel has obtained for the Town […]
Richland County transportation planning meeting coming to Blythewood
February 18, 2024 By
RICHLAND COUNTY– Richland County is holding a series of planning meetings as part of a transportation needs assessment. The drop-in style meetings are scheduled in each of the 11 Council districts during January and February. The meeting for District 2, Councilman Derrek Pugh’s district, will be from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, […]
Dr. Tony Hemingway named FCSD Superintendent
February 13, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield County School Board of Trustees voted unanimously to select Dr. Tony Hemingway as the next Superintendent of the Fairfield County School District. Dr. Hemingway, EdD has served as the Chief Human Resources and Strategic Planning Officer in Clover School District since 2017. Prior to this position, he served as the Principal […]
Town of Winnsboro awarded additional $1.8M grant for Fortune Springs Park
February 8, 2024 By
WINNSBORO—Winnsboro Town Manager Jason Taylor announced last week that the Town of Winnsboro has been awarded the South Carolina Office of Resilience (SCOR) grant of $1,859,744.90 for the Fortune Springs Stormwater Project and a $54.886.28 Parks and Recreation Development (PARD) grant for restoration work in Friendship Park at the corner of Garden and Moultrie Streets. […]
A new kind of health care provided in Fairfield Co.
February 8, 2024 By
This Could be a Roadmap for Other Programs to Emulate FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Paramedicine is an innovative community health care program aimed at reducing health care barriers as well as costs. The pilot program, formally known as “Improving Rural Health Care Through Community Paramedicine,” stations a specially trained community paramedic in a rural medical clinic, […]
