Gordge: Rezoning Would Make Most Housing, Commercial & Leisure No Longer Available BLYTHEWOOD – After Blythewood Planning Commissioners expressed gratitude to the U-Haul company on Community Road for its graciousness and goodwill over the years to allow Buck and Kristi Coggins to use, at no charge, several acres of U-Haul’s land for the Coggins’ twice […]
County rejects R2 request for 18.4 mills
June 9, 2022 By
Pugh: County Needs to Re-evaluate How We Spend Money COLUMBIA – Richland County Council passed third and final reading of its FY 2022-23 budget Tuesday night, excluding Richland School District Two’s request for an 18.4 millage increase. It was the second year the council has passed a no-millage-increase budget. The vote to pass the budget […]
Early voting underway in Fairfield County
June 2, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Early voting for the primaries began Tuesday and will continue until 5 p.m., June 10. For this two week period, polls will be open for in-person voting without an excuse as was required in the past. Polls will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. weekdays during this two weeks, but will […]
Richland County PC holding workshop for mass rezoning
June 2, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – The remapping restart process for the mass rezoning of all the unincorporated areas of Richland County is on the agenda to be discussed at the Monday, June 6 meeting of the Richland County Planning Commission. Immediately following the meeting a workshop is scheduled to discuss the Land Development Code remapping restart, with three […]
Early voting underway in Richland County
June 2, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Early voting for the primaries began Tuesday and will continue until 5 p.m., June 10. For this two week period, polls will be open for in-person voting without an excuse as was required in the past. Polls will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. weekdays during this two weeks, but will […]
Fairfield Council members spend while cutting back departments
June 2, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Three Fairfield County Council members traveled to a seaside resort last summer to learn more about county government. They registered for a few classes and stayed extra nights. These expenses and others highlight an apparent pattern of frequent travel, double billing and other fiscal abuses found during a review of council member reimbursements. […]
Will Governor McMaster remove R2 board members?
June 2, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – With the recent passage of a state law enabling the governor of South Carolina to remove school board members for misconduct in office, some parents in Richland School District Two are asking if the law will be applied here and, if so, to what extent. According to the governor’s office, that question is […]
Davenport leaving Fairfield for Richland
May 26, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – It was announced in The Voice last week that Fairfield Economic Director Ty Davenport had left Fairfield County. He has since been named Deputy Director of Economic Development for Richland County. Davenport was hired by Fairfield County in June, 2016, when the unemployment rate in the county was 14 percent and had been […]
TC passes first budget reading; authorizes property purchase
May 26, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After considerable sparring over some of the ways the Town spends its money, Town Council unanimously passed first reading of its FY 2022 – 2023 budget Monday night. With one-time revenues from American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding ($1,812,854) and a $250,000 earmark grant from the state government plus an almost 100 percent increase […]
County Council takes $285K from fund balance to cover earmarks
May 26, 2022 By
Council Budgeted More for Itself Than for Economic Development WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Council members authorized $285,000 in last minute spending as part of the $41.3 million budget approved Monday night, raiding what Council Chair Moses Bell has frequently called “the depleted fund balance” to do so. The majority five council members also declined taking […]
