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 […]
Double Parking
December 14, 2012 By
The Eunice Shelton Thompson Park, also known as the Blair Community Park, is gone. With little fanfare and no eulogy, the park has returned to the state in which the County found it in 1985 – a green and vacant 2-acre lot on 99 Road in Blair. And while the County did dismantle all the […]
Someone Must Pay
December 7, 2012 By
It is no secret that, for the last 12 months or more, Fairfield Memorial Hospital has been gasping for air, struggling like a leg-cramped swimmer in the deep end of the pool to find that golden mean, that safe place where the big toe can just touch bottom. Kept afloat, largely, by a huge influx […]
Post-Election Wish List
November 16, 2012 By
As the numbers began to trickle in late Tuesday night, it became more and more clear that, for the most part, change is overrated. In Fairfield County – indeed, in the nation as a whole – what Tuesday’s elections told us is, apparently, people like things pretty much the way they are. Gridlock, it seems, […]
Time is More Than Money
November 9, 2012 By
Some years ago, there was an advertising slogan for Pepto-Bismol, geared to encourage viewers to go out and purchase a bottle of the gooey pink stuff even if they hadn’t just eaten an entire beef burrito or plate of bacon-smothered cheese fries. Just to have it handy. It went something like: “You don’t want to […]
Talk is Cheap, Facilities are Not
October 26, 2012 By
If we are to accept the word of the Board member from District 4 at last week’s meeting of the Fairfield County School Board – and there is really no reason we should not – the future of the Fairfield County Career and Technology Center has been the topic of discussion by District leadership for […]
Show Me the Money
October 19, 2012 By
If last week’s political forum between MaryGail Douglas (D) and William Gray (R) is any indication, the voters in District 41 will have a tough choice in November between two very good candidates for the State House of Representatives. The candidates proved that political discourse can be instructive without being destructive, and in all likelihood […]
Here’s Mud in Your Eye
October 12, 2012 By
Election years can, by their very nature, be combative, ugly affairs, a rough 12-month stretch of bad road that gets more brutal and unforgiving as we near our final destination, that fateful Tuesday in November. In Fairfield County, on the other hand, campaigns are generally cordial affairs. In a largely rural community where everyone knows […]
