WINNSBORO – When an ice storm paralyzed Fairfield County in the winter of 1968, knocking out the power at a nursing home on Bellfield Road, a Citizens Band (CB) radio club sent out word that volunteers were urgently needed to help the residents of the home. The community responded. After helping the nursing home residents […]
Open House at Active Day on Friday
July 26, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The community is invited to an open house at Active Day of Winnsboro, 219 North Congress Street, on Friday, July 27, 2018 from 10:30 am-2:00pm. The event will include door prizes, games, line dancing class at 11:30 and refreshments. Learn more about how the center benefits caregivers and their loved ones and meet […]
Free dementia care training offered Aug. 7
July 12, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A free community training event for caregivers who provide care to family members or others with dementia or related dementia disorders will be conducted at Doko Manor on Tuesday, Aug. 7, from 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The course has the support of the Town of Blythewood and Mayor J. Michael Ross. The […]
Huge Crowd Rocks Blythewood Fireworks Event
July 12, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – “It was the best attended event we’ve ever had in the park,” Doko Manor and Event Director Steve Hasterok said of the crowd at the July 3 fireworks event at the Palmetto Citizens Amphitheater in Doko Park. “It was already a huge crowd, then about an hour before the fireworks began, about 1,000 more […]
FC Football hosts golf tourney fundraiser
July 5, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Douglas Peake, left, Taylor Ingle, Dillon Cail and Mackenzie Robinson took finished second in Fairfield Central Football Program’s annual golf tournament fundraiser, which raised over $5,000. Cail also took home the prize for longest drive.
Fireworks set to go off in BW
June 28, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The town’s annual Independence Day Celebration will once again shower the night sky over Doko Meadows Park with a dazzling display of fireworks, beginning about 9:30 p. m., on Tuesday, July 3. But festivities will begin much earlier. Starting at 4 p.m., there will be live music, food, games and fun. Miss Watermelon […]
Chamber Dines Out
June 28, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The 2018-19 Fairfield County Chamber board members were presented at the Chamber’s annual dinner last week. Front row (from left): Crystal Paulk, The Donut Guy; Robbie Martin, Bella & Blue Boutique, Cotton Yard Market and Palmer Street Market, Ridgeway; Lisa Kelly, TruVista Communication; Ronita Marshall, SCANA/V.C. Summer; Back row: Danielle Miller, Fairfield Middle […]
The 2018 Fairfield Ag + Art Tour
June 25, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – On June 14 there was a six-course dinner with musical entertainment by the lake at The Pearl of Monticello. The following Saturday morning, hundreds of fun-loving families traipsed through the Fairfield County countryside looking for farms, artists, musicians, food and fun. They found it on the annual self-guided Fairfield Ag + Art Tour. […]
