FAIRFIELD COUNTY – According to Fairfield County Coroner Chris Hill, the county’s fire services was dispatched to Cool Branch Rd. in the Carlisle area around noon Wednesday, Feb. 26 for a structure fire in which they were told one individual was unaccounted for. Once on the scene, firefighters extinguished the fire and found the missing […]
Judge grants injunction against BW mayor
March 3, 2025 By
COLUMBIA – A ruling has been handed down in the Town of Blythewood lawsuit in which four members of the Blythewood Town Council – Mayor Pro Tem Donald Brock, Rich McKenrick, Andrea Fripp, and Erica Page – filed for a temporary and permanent injunction to stop Blythewood Mayor Sloan Griffin from enforcing his Executive Order […]
Gilbert appoints select councilmen to standing committees
February 20, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Following adjournment of the Feb. 10 Fairfield County Council meeting, Clerk to Council Kimberly Roberts handed out to all council members a list of the 2025-26 appointees to council’s five standing committees. County Council Chairman Clarence Gilbert made the appointments – a chair and two members for each committee – as required by […]
Hearing on injunction filed by Town of Blythewood set for Feb. 21
February 20, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Friday, Feb 21 has been set for Judge Daniel Coble to hear a motion for an injunction filed by the Town of Blythewood against Blythewood Mayor Sloan Griffin. In a Motion for Injunction filed Feb. 11 with the Richland County Court of Common Pleas, four Blythewood Town Council members asked the Court to […]
Douglas asks county council to replace Sheriff’s aging, unsafe vehicles
February 20, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – During the Feb. 17 Fairfield County Council meeting, Fairfield County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Brad Douglas said the Sheriff’s Office is already working on its budget for fiscal year 2025-26, and that he has serious concerns as to whether the department can safely sustain its services in the county until the new budget year […]
USPS investigating checks stolen from drop boxes in Blythewood
February 20, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – At least three individuals have reported to the Blythewood post office that checks they dropped in the two outside blue postal collection boxes last week for mailing had mysteriously fallen into the wrong hands – hands that had subsequently tried to cash them. Blythewood resident Kim Graber told The Voice that she dropped […]
Debbie Winner won!
February 13, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – This year’s winner of The Voice’s Bracket Challenge is a triple winner – her name is Debbie Winner, she won $200 by picking the most winners in the Challenge, and her favorite football team, Ohio State, won the college football championship. A native of Ohio, Winner said she and her husband, Herb, moved […]
Man found dead near campground in Fairfield Co.
February 13, 2025 By
WINNSBORO — A man who was found dead near the Broad River Campground on State Hwy 215 S., has been identified as 54-year-old Luis Olmeda, according to Fairfield County Corner Chris Hill. Hill said Olmeda was found at around 5 p.m., on Feb. 6 by a resident of the campground where Olmeda lived. The campground […]
Winnsboro man arrested for trafficking drugs
February 13, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Willie James Edmonds Sr. was arrested in Winnsboro last week and charged with trafficking illegal drugs. While executing a search warrant at a residence on E. Liberty Street in Winnsboro on Thursday, Feb. 6, Investigators with the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Division trafficking quantities of cocaine base (crack), marijuana, and an illegally […]
Man arrested in Ridgeway for drug trafficking
February 13, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Van Buren Fore IV, 35, was arrested last week in connection with the trafficking of illegal drugs from a Ridgeway motel, according to Fairfield County Sheriff Will Montgomery. Investigators with the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division executed a search warrant at a motel near SC-34 in Ridgeway on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The […]
