WINNSBORO – The Fairfield Chamber of Commerce cut the ribbon on Friday, May 26, for the Peace on Earth Café & Consignment store located 159 S. Congress Street in Winnsboro. Owners Mary and Domenic Nappa (in blue shirts, center) cut the ribbon. Others in the front row are, from left, Shamieka Sims (holding ribbon) Kevin […]
Rich Beauty Fitness
June 1, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – Renada Richardson, center in red shirt, opened her new business, Rich Beauty Fitness, grandly on May 20 with a ribbon cutting. Assisting her are, from left: Elizabeth Green, House Rep. Annie McDaniel, Shelley Fentress with Fairfield Forward, Rev. Claudia Richardson, Richardson, Yvette Duckson, Assistant Town Manager Chris Clauson, Town Manager Jason Taylor, Ivy […]
Essense Event cuts the ribbon
May 11, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for the grand opening of the Essence Event Center last week in the Food Lion Shopping Center. The center focuses on birthday party, wedding, reunion, religious event and business meeting. “This facility has been newly renovated and will be open to host your next […]
Drapery shop opens in Winnsboro
December 8, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – There’s a new shop in downtown Winnsboro. It’s called Drapescapes Window Fashions and is owned and operated by Winnsboro resident Diana Smoot. Whether a home has high ceilings, large windows or an open concept, Smoot offers custom window covering choices to minimize problem areas or to enhance an already desirable setting – and […]
Maui Jim is here!
November 23, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Dr. Sarah Beaver, above, and Blythewood Eye Care invited the community to a cocktail hour on Nov. 8 for a frame show featuring Zen Barcelona and Maui Jim eyeglass frames (exclusive to the Blythewood office.) The event included prize drawings and discounts on purchases. The office is located at 204 Langford Road in […]
Drive-thru cashier is “Lovin’ it” at McDonalds
September 22, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Many employable people are choosing not to go to work these days, but not so for a recent drive-thru hire at Blythewood’s McDonalds restaurant located on McNulty Road, next to the I-77. Patrick Canzater, 25, who was hired last spring, takes his job seriously. He comes to work at 5:30 in the morning, […]
Dominion donates $10,000 to FCCOA for generator
September 15, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Hurricane season can bring the kind of bad weather that prevents the Fairfield County Council on Aging (FCCOA) from being able to prepare food that it delivers to the elderly population in Fairfield County. FCCOA sought funding to support the purchase of a generator system that will enable the kitchen to continue running […]
His & Her’s Discount Store opens in Winnsboro
September 8, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Rachael Boyd-Bell has returned to Fairfield County after 30 years, and she and her husband, Tyrone, have opened His & Her’s Discount Store in downtown Winnsboro. Although this is her first adventure in retail, Rachael comes from a long line of local entrepreneurs. “My grandmother started out selling boiled peanuts for 50 cents […]
Sallie Sharpe wins green award
August 4, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood’s Sallie Sharpe was recently presented with the 2022 Green Business Award by the Environmental Education Association of South Carolina. Board member Jane Hiller presented the award to Sharpe at her shop, Sal’s Ol’ Timey Feed and Seed at 113 Hilltop Drive in Columbia. Sharpe is a seventh-generation homesteader who pours her gardening […]
Vanessa English bringing vineyard and winery to Blythewood countryside
July 21, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Vanessa English’s dream of planting a vineyard in Blythewood has been 10 years in the making, for an unusual reason: She was waiting on science. A decade is about how long it has taken researchers at the University of California, Davis to develop a traditional wine grape that could be grown successfully in […]
