WINNSBORO – For the last 56 years, on Feb. 8, Winnsboro’s Arthur Lathan has traveled to Orangeburg to attend the annual memorial for the Orangeburg Massacre, the 1968 shooting of black student protesters by law enforcement on the S. C. State College campus. On the drive down, every year, Lathan says he can’t help but […]
It was a Happy Valentine’s Day
February 15, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – The house was full and overflowing Friday night at Fiesta Mexican restaurant in Winnsboro. The occasion was a Valentine’s Day dinner dance, complete with a DJ and long-stemmed red roses for the ladies. Fiesta, which opened for business on Oct. 31, offers a large menu of Mexican dishes along with beer and margaritas. […]
St. John’s holds annual Mardi Gras fundraiser
February 15, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) of St. John’s Episcopal Church hosted their second Annual Mardi Gras Fundraiser on Feb. 10, to raise money to support seven community outreach projects: Samaritan’s Purse, Fairfield Middle School Personal Needs Closet, Angel Tree at the Middle School, Fairfield County Food Bank, Grieving Needs Foundation, Fairfield County Council […]
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, […]
Teacher Village has a new name
February 8, 2024 By
WINNSBORO – When word began to spread about the Fairfield Education Foundation’s proposed housing for teachers approximately three years ago, the project was generally referred to as the Teacher Village. But that moniker must change, according to a spokesperson with the Teachers Village Newark in Newark, N.J. After Fairfield’s Teacher Village began taking shape early […]
Scout invites Blythewood community to Meet & Greet
February 8, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Scout Motors team has scheduled a Meet and Greet at its new plant site on Thursday, Feb. 15, and is inviting Blythewood community residents to help celebrate the plant’s groundbreaking. The event lasts from 4:30 – 6 p.m., and will be held at 501 Blythewood Road, where the company’s Production Center will […]
Celebrating Black History: The Slave Cabin
February 8, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood Ladies Club hosted a Black History program during its regular monthly meeting at its club house on Sandfield Road on Friday. The program featured special guest Lavern Meggett, who lives in Blythewood’s Oak Hurst neighborhood, and her Great Aunt Isabella Meggett Lucas, age 94. Meggett told two stories about how her […]
Celebrating Black History: Kelly Miller first black student admitted to Johns Hopkins Univ.
February 8, 2024 By
Excerpt from research paper by Fairfield Central graduate Lamar Richards, now a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. FAIRFIELD COUNTY – A young man named Kelly Miller arrived at The Johns Hopkins University in 1887, to begin graduate studies in mathematics. Just 11 years after its founding, Hopkins had already acquired an excellent academic reputation, […]
Water Main Break
February 8, 2024 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Contracted workers watch as water flows onto Winding Oak Way after a water main was damaged during the positioning of AT&T fiber optic cable in the Ashley Oaks subdivision, Feb. 3. Utility workers from Columbia water were dispatched to the location and the leak was contained shortly after 8 p.m.
