This Town Council is quick to get a paying customer (a business owner) by its good ear any time that owner treads, even lightly, on the Town’s sign laws. When business owners fail to follow the sign ordinance to the letter of the law, they are sometimes threatened with fines of $200 per day until […]
Death by Committee
February 15, 2013 By
The government that governs best may indeed govern least, as the old adage goes; but the government that truly serves the people governs in the open, in plain view, in the brilliant light of public scrutiny. The days of secret handshakes and back room deals are, more and more, becoming relegated to the past, a […]
Damned if You DEW
February 8, 2013 By
This week’s report that the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) was closing 17 offices around the state – including their Winnsboro office at 414 A S. Congress St. – sent shock waves through a community whose unemployment rate continues to hover around 10.7 percent, well above the state average of 8.4 percent. The […]
The Last, Last Chance
February 1, 2013 By
The Town of Winnsboro is fortunate to have a physician serving as mayor; but not even the most gifted of healer can cure every ailment, and for the patient the Town has wired up in ICU right now, it may be time to consider bringing in Hospice. This patient – the Mt. Zion Institute building […]
Risk Management
January 25, 2013 By
Our society, like a great machine, is composed of many intricate, delicate moving parts, all of which must continue to spin in their designated orbits in order for the whole to function properly. No part, however small or subtle, is insignificant. There lies at the foundation of our machine a veritable army of men and […]
Time Heals All Wounds
January 18, 2013 By
America is the land of second chances. The notion lies at the very foundation of our country. From the time the first settlers set foot on our Eastern shores to the present day, America has stood out as a beacon of hope to people from all walks of life, from all over the world, as […]
Closing the Barn Door
January 11, 2013 By
No amount of words, however lofty or eloquent, can properly eulogize the tragic loss of life that took place in Newtown, Conn., last month. The tragedy will forever be a stain upon that otherwise quiet and humble community; a terrible memory that can never be erased. And while politicians may deliberate and pontificators may pontificate […]
The Year in Rear View
January 4, 2013 By
The balloons have all dropped, the Champagne corks have all been popped and 2012 is now officially a part of our collective past. While it may be a year known most for what didn’t happen – e.g., the world coming to a shattering end in a blaze of Mayan Doomsday Apocalyptic horror – there were […]
A Single Basket of Eggs
December 28, 2012 By
Fairfield County’s treasure chest is balanced precariously atop a one-legged stool, with the fiscal fate of the County dependent almost entirely upon the future of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station and the construction of two new reactors currently under way there. With some $20 million in tax dollars flowing into County coffers annually from SCE&G, […]
A Boy and His Dog
December 21, 2012 By
The stories that pull hard and fast on the heartstrings abound during this time of year, the time of year when our charitable sensibilities rise more prominently to the surface in accordance with the season. Every year, it seems, there is the urgent need around which the community rallies to ensure that they, too, enjoy […]
