Well, it wasn’t exactly a concensus of the population. This is still a relatively new site and I guess people are shy about participation. We only got a dozen or so votes in our poll about the Fort Mill Times.
However, the poll ended up being an interesting mix of opinion. If you [...]

Last week I got an interesting email from a regular reader, Tandra, concerning our local weekly paper, The Fort Mill Times. Tandra has lived in Fort Mill for a decade and for most of that time received her weekly copy of the newspaper. However, in the past year or so, all deliveries to her street stopped, and she presumed that the FMT no longer offered free papers to residents. Recently she found out a neighbor on the street behind her has still been receiving her papers every week. She is now taking steps to get her street back on the route so that she can get the paper again.

Let it never be said that we don’t think our local paper does great work. Several staffers at our local weekly were given journalism awards by the South Carolina Press Association at a special dinner and award ceremony this evening in Myrtle Beach, SC. While there were over 40 categories for weekly papers [...]

The Fort Mill Times is reporting that the recent “Coins for Connor” fundraising event at Fort Mill High School netted $5,641 to help for Connor McKemey, the Tega Cay teen who suffered major burns in an injury prior to the Christmas holiday this past December. There have been a few “Coins for Connor” fundraisers over the past couple of months, and totals so far reach almost $20,000.

It shows you that any change you carry around – whether it’s one penny or several – can go a long way towards helping someone else!

Connor has already had more than a dozen surgeries since the accident, but is out of the medical-induced coma and is slowly making progress towards recovery.

If you want to assist the McKemey family but don’t know how, consider visiting McKemey Strong, which