Town’s Legal Expenses Could Be Approaching $800,000 BLYTHEWOOD – After almost three years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees paid to attorneys and consultants by the Town government for lawsuits involving Mayor Bryan Franklin and marketing firm MPA Strategies, Franklin continues to prohibit the Town’s attorneys from revealing to the public, the […]
Arrest made in MLILY bomb threat investigation
October 25, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office has cleared from the MLILY Plant on US Hwy 321, south of Winnsboro, after responding to a bomb threat. This morning, an employee at MLILY received a call indicating a bomb threat. Sheriff’s deputies were on the scene within two minutes of the call and assisted with the […]
Commemorating Winnsboro’s American Revolutionary War patriots
October 19, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – On Saturday, Oct. 28, a 300-year-old cemetery deep in the countryside west of town and the Fairfield County Museum will be the scenes of a daylong celebration of Winnsboro’s Patriots of the American Revolution. There will be a morning event in the formerly named Winnsborough community just west of Hwy. 34, lunch at […]
Report: Blythewood schools perform well
October 19, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood area schools continue to perform well on the 2023 South Carolina Report Cards, with six of 10 schools rated “Good” or better. Three others were rated “Average” while one school received a “Below Average” rating. No schools were rated “Unsatisfactory,” the lowest rating a school can receive. Kelly Mill Middle (Elementary), Muller […]
Dominion’s ‘temporary’ gas tanks coming back
October 19, 2023 By
Next Door Neighbor Byron Dinkins: ‘I Can’t Believe We’re Here Again.’ BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood Board of Zoning Appeals approved a temporary permit for a compressed natural gas storage truck to be kept at the corner of Syrup Mill Road and Blythewood Road again this winter. According to one of two representatives from Dominion Energy, […]
Fairfield’s school report cards improve
October 19, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County schools saw marked improvement on the recently released 2023 Report Cards, with five of seven schools rated “Good” or higher. Two schools – Geiger Elementary and Fairfield Magnet – received “Excellent” ratings, the highest in the five-tier rating system. An “Excellent” rating means “school performance substantially exceeds the criteria to ensure […]
VC Summer gets yellow flag – 2nd highest warning
October 12, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – For the second time in 12 months, federal nuclear inspectors have noted defects in critical hardware at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant in Fairfield County. On October 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) informed Dominion Energy, which operates V.C. Summer, of an apparent violation of “substantial safety significance.” The NRC issued a preliminary […]
RVHS student’s family settles sexual assault suit
October 12, 2023 By
COLUMBIA – A lawsuit filed by the family of a Ridgeview High School student and sexual assault victim has been settled. According to the suit, a member of the school’s basketball team was sexually assaulted by teammates before a game in January, 2020. Filed in January, 2022, the suit listed seven causes of action against […]
After 10 months of silence, council faces questions regarding admin search
October 12, 2023 By
Pauley: Admin Hiring Process Could Take 6 More Months WINNSBORO – During Monday night’s council meeting, council member Dan Ruff questioned Council Chairman Douglas Pauley as to why, after 10 months, council has not hired a firm to recruit a new county administrator. Ruff also wanted to know when the county would post the job […]
Not your Disney ‘Hunchback’
October 12, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – There are gargoyles and they sing. There is a sympathetic Quasimodo character and a cruel and rapacious villain, but if you’re looking for the Disney version of the classic story, you won’t find it in The Pine Tree Playhouse musical version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” What you will find in a […]
