Winnsboro’s newest gift shop, Sunshine & Serenity Boutique, held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 30 with a reception and music provided by Heyward Mattox, Gen Palmer, and Friends. The ribbon was held by owner Vanessa Reynolds and her children, Adam Hamelink, 11, Sarah Burleson, 27. It was cut by Reynolds’s grandaughter, Serenity Miller, […]
Winnsboro native comes home to practice law
October 5, 2017 By
WINNSBORO – Native Adrian Wilkes has come home to practice law as an associate with the Law Office of Jonathan M. Goode, LLC. Wilkes graduated from The Citadel in 2011 and the Charleston School of Law in 2016. While at the Charleston School of Law, Wilkes held leadership positions in several student organizations and excelled […]
Durafiber closing hits town pocketbook; claims 220 jobs
July 20, 2017 By
WINNSBORO – Durafiber Technologies announced last week that it would close its plant in Winnsboro’s mill village if it can’t find a buyer for the plant by Sept. 11. The company said a total of 220 employees who work at the Fairfield plant will be affected by the closing. Another 580 employees in plant […]
Storage Express to expand along I-77
July 13, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD- A proposal has been made by Dewayne Bohannon, the owner of the existing Storage Express mini-warehouses that sit between Community Drive and I-77 and within the Town limits, to fully develop the five-acre site by adding 30,926 square feet of new mini-warehouse space. While that is an allowed land use in the Limited Industrial […]
Vendor OK’d, KFC Grilled
April 20, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A loophole in the Town’s code of ordinances has paved the way for the owner of Grace Coffee, a vendor housed in a small turquoise and white mobile home on Main Street in downtown Blythewood, to do, on Monday evening, what no other business in town has been able to do – receive […]
First Citizens in Ridgeway closes to keys and cookies
April 13, 2017 By
Shortly after the First Citizens Banks in South Carolina were merged with the North Carolina First Citizens Banks, the company announced it would be closing the doors on the bank in Ridgeway. That happened on Wednesday. The bank has been open under various names for the last 119 years. It is an institution the townspeople […]
Residents Beat Back Rezoning Attempt
March 2, 2017 By
COLUMBIA (March 2, 2017) – The third time was not the charm for developer Hugh Palmer Tuesday night when he again came before County Council requesting a Rural Commercial (RC) zoning designation for a 5.23-acre parcel he owns at the intersection of Rimer Pond Road and Longtown Road West in Blythewood. After almost an hour of […]
Vendor Regulations Postponed Again
March 2, 2017 By
Council Seeks to Add DHEC Permits, Insurance, Zoning Requirements BLYTHEWOOD (March 2, 2017) – Town Council Monday night made another abortive pass at an ordinance regulating itinerate merchants and vending stands within the Town Center District (TCD). Unlike last month’s attempt, however, when Council faced considerable public backlash for its efforts, Monday night a handful of […]
Rimer Pond Road Zoning Battle Looms
February 23, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD (Feb. 23, 2017) – Residents from the Rimer Pond Road/LongCreek Plantation area are expected to make their umpteenth trip down to Richland County Council chambers Tuesday evening to continue a years-long battle to keep their rural residential neighborhood free of commercial zoning. For the last three years, the battle has been fought over the same […]
Traffic Circle Talks Continue
February 16, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD (Feb. 16, 2017) – At the outset of Town Council’s Jan. 30 meeting, Councilman Malcolm Gordge reported that he had attended as an observer that morning a meeting between Chamber of Commerce members and Ben Lewis, Project Engineer for the Richland County Penny Sales Tax Ad Hoc Committee, the purpose of which was to discuss […]
