Fairfield County News

A friend of Tammy Jo Parker testified Wednesday that he was intimate with the 44-year-old while she was married to Brett Parker.

Fairfield County administrator Phil Hinley denies sending and downloading any pornography from his county email account when WIS confronted him with the SLED file on April 8 at a county council meeting.

Fairfield County Council heard an update at its May 13 meeting about housing ordinances when Dan Vismor explained that Article 2 needed removing from Housing Ordinance No.

Some ladies in the Fairfield community are leading the way when it comes to reaching out to needy children.

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church members Martha Robertson, Lola Robertson, Sarah Bush, Aileen Edmunds and Belva Bush got together at the Cotton Yard Market to talk about their FAMOUS recipes that they were entering into the Fairfield County Cookbook.

Winnsboro resident and Winnsboro native Oliver Johnson has his say about county tax rates and county council's policies during the public comment session of the county council meeting.

At his final town hall meeting for 2013, School Superintendent J.R. Green called upon educators and administrators to revamp the way educators embrace technology in Fairfield County.

Back row, Doug Porter, Belva Bush, and Donald Prioleau, and front row, left to right, Charlene Herring, Denise Jones, Jennie Price, and Russ Brown recognize Jones and Price with the Cottonyard Market as Ridgeway's Entrepreneurs of the Year.

Walter Thoma holds son, Parker, age 4, up to get a close look inside the cockpit of a COBRA helicopter, circa 1980.

Thom Berry, public information officer with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, said Takisha Yolanda Roseboro, 36, of 81 Neason Lane in Winnsboro, was arrested May 10.

We received a call from a tenant who lives just 40 feet from where the tires are piled up.

The National Association of Letter Carriers conducts its 21st annual food drive.

Hello everyone, local news on the way after we do the birthday wishes. Happy birthday to: Sam "Coach" Pruitt, Jamil Wallace, Shelley Wicker, Jackqueline B. Sims, David Andrews Sr., Becky Hinnrich, Paula Harrison, Lonnie Champion, Jacqueline Riser, Kourtney Collins, Julie Vancil, Alice Wicker, Chase Hood and Wallace Alexander.

Though school days have a similar routine of bells ringing and classes changing, of lunch and recess time, no two school days are alike for a school nurse.

In less than a decade, S.C. has gone from projections that the state soon would not have enough electric power to a surplus.

The Fairfield County Food Bank is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon and relies solely on volunteers and donations from churches, businesses, civic groups and individuals.

Two Ridgeway men, Almonzo Lamar Belton, 32, of 1979 Qualls Road., Ridgeway and Marcus Jermaine Mobley, 29, of Weldon Lane, Ridgeway, were arrested during a narcotics investigation early morning of May 9. During the narcotics operation, Fairfield County Sheriff's Office Deputies executed a drug search warrant at the residence of Almonzo Belton on ... (more)

A song written in 1907 by Will Cobb and Gus Edwards laments: "School days, school days, Dear old Golden Rule days, 'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic, Taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick." Ah, would that discipline of that sort were the rule today.

The Fairfield County Historical Society's annual bash is set for 6 p.m. May 16 at Honeysuckle Acres Bed and Breakfast Inn in Winnsboro.

A May 3 visit by Sen. Tim Scott to sites 2 and 3 at the V.C. Summer nuclear facility left him impressed with the state of the art technology being constructed in Fairfield County.