BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood Community celebrated Black History Month with music, dance and refreshments on Saturday at The Manor. The afternoon of entertainment and remembrance included performances by members of the Blythewood Churches Community Choir, the Pine Grove Church Youth Choir and a dance team from Westwood High School. Jason Lloyd opened the program singing […]
Council retreat set for Mar. 16
February 21, 2019 By
Mayor Invites Community for Lunch and Input BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood Town Council is throwing its annual retreat on March 16 and inviting the community for lunch. “We always invite the community to all of our meetings, but I especially like them to come to our annual retreat. That’s when we plan for the next […]
600 homes proposed in Blythewood
August 30, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – “Lord, what will this do to the traffic on Langford Road,” Mayor J. Michael Ross said after Town Administrator Brian Cook explained Tuesday evening during council meeting that a new residential subdivision with a total of 601 lots is being proposed on approximately 249 acres across Langford Road from Town Hall. Even though […]
Commision endorses vendor ordinance
June 7, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After more than a year of handwringing over whether to allow temporary vendors in the Town Center District, the Planning Commissioners voted Monday night to recommend that Council adopt the City of Columbia’s vending ordinance, presented by Town Administrator Brian Cook, with a few tweaks. That modified ordinance, basically, allows temporary vendors and […]
Council pulls plug on clear cutting
June 7, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After months of discussion and angst over what the town attorney said is a loophole in the Town’s landscape and tree preservation ordinance, council voted 5-0 last week to amend the ordinance by repealing Section 155.390 (H). That section exempted certain projects from landscaping yard requirements that allowed developer D.R. Horton to clear […]
Planning Commission sides with developers against tree law amendment
April 5, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – During its February meeting, Town Council voted to adopt an amendment to the town’s tree preservation ordinance that would remove an exemption that Town Attorney Jim Meggs suggested is being interpreted by developers as permission to clear cut lots without a tree removal permit from town hall. On Monday night, the Planning Commission […]
Blythewood to honor black history on Feb. 17
February 15, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town and residents will take part in the annual Black History Month celebration this Saturday night, Feb. 17 with performances by the Westwood High School Dancers, the Round Top Baptist Church Youth Choir and EboniRamm and Band. The celebration, which will be emceed by performer EboniRamm, will be held again this year […]
Freeway Music mulls move to Depot
February 1, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After a year of planning, a year of construction and a year of searching for a buyer, the Town of Blythewood has found a potential purchaser for the Doko Depot, and if the sale goes through as expected, it may come with a bonus – Freeway Music. The music company, which offers lessons […]
Gunshot fired through window of Blythewood home
February 1, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A Blythewood family was not at home on the afternoon of Jan. 12 when a bullet came crashing through the breakfast room window of their home and traveled through a kitchen cabinet, into the dining room before embedding into an adjacent wall. “It had to have happened between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. […]
