Engineer: Traffic Impact at Creech & Blythewood Rd. will not be Significant BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood Planning Commission gave its approval Monday night to a site plan for the proposed 48-unit senior living apartment complex planned for Creech Road. “I don’t see any reason that I can’t vote to approve this project based on zoning […]
Ridgeway’s Over the Top Boutique closing
May 28, 2020 By
RIDGEWAY – After 11 years of business, Over the Top Boutique in Ridgeway will be closing its doors next month. Owner Tina Johnson, who opened the shop in May of 2009, announced the closing earlier this week. She said the store would continue to be open 10 – 3 every Saturday through June 27. “We’ll […]
QuikTrip, Starbucks coming to BW
April 16, 2020 By
Mayor: BW is continuing to attract businesses our residents ask for BLYTHEWOOD – While COVID-19 grinds the economy to a halt in Blythewood as it has across the country in recent weeks, the town is also experiencing a commercial building boom that belies the devastating circumstances of the current pandemic. With a Zaxby’s already approved […]
What’s in CARES packages for local small businesses
April 2, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD COUNTY – As many of Blythewood and Fairfield County’s small ‘non-essential’ businesses were placed under mandatory closure orders by the Governor Tuesday evening (Gov. Henry McMaster Orders Non-Essential Businesses Closed Throughout S.C.), others in town were already closed by the limitations of social distancing. The revenue is drying up quickly all down the street, […]
New Store in Town
April 2, 2020 By
WINNSBORO – A new gift/consignment shop, Forget-Me-Not, opened grandly with a ribbon cutting on Friday, March 13 sponsored by the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce. Cutting the ribbon, center, are co-owners Erin Bagwell and Deborah Rollison, assisted by Mayor Roger Gaddy. Others, from left, are Gene Stephens, Chamber President, Bob Prather, Chamber Vice Chair, and members Carolyn […]
Local small businesses face COVID-19
March 26, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The social restrictions that come with the Covid-19 pandemic have presented a real challenge for our local small businesses in Blythewood and Fairfield County. But they’ve also presented new opportunities that are likely to impact how these businesses operate even after it’s over. “We’re trying to be innovative and creative, and each and […]
Community & event changes in Fairfield County
March 26, 2020 By
Restaurants Banisters – closed temporarily; 803-635-7055 Barn Express – breakfast & lunch takeout; 803-635-4865 China Buffet – lunch & dinner takeout; 803-815-8828 China Taste – lunch & dinner takeout; 803-815-1540 Cornwallis House Tea Co. – lunch takeout; 803-815-1143 KJ’s – Breakfast, lunch & dinner take out; 803-815-1262 Italian Garden – lunch and dinner takeout and […]
Community & event changes in Blythewood
March 26, 2020 By
Restaurants Bloomin Bean Coffee Bar – take out and delivery; 803-691-1820 Blue Rooster Cafe – take out; 803-586-4090 Carolina Wings – take out; 803-714-0181 Cobblestone Park Golf Club – take out; 803-331-8100 Doko Smoke – take out, delivery via 3rd party, limited catering; 803-730-6016 Lizard’s Thicket – take out through front door; 803-451-8400 McNulty’s Tap […]
Something besides tea is brewing at Laura’s Tea Room
March 5, 2020 By
RIDGEWAY – Something’s up – upstairs, that is – at Carol Allen’s Laura’s Tea Room in Ridgeway. It’s a new consignment store called Grama’s Attic, named after Allen’s late mother, Eleanor Keene, known affectionately to Tea Room customers as Grama. Keene oversaw the Tea Room kitchen from the time it opened in 2005, at 104 […]
The Manor: Blythewood’s Crown Jewel
January 9, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Manor at Doko Meadows, once referred to as Blythewood’s “Undiscovered Jewel,” is indeed a jewel, but it’s been discovered. Completed in 2013, construction of the Manor had been opposed by many who felt it was an extravagant expense at that time. Nestled in the 22-acre Doko Meadows Park, it is today a […]
