Fountain Inn

A municipal, meaning the city, one-cent sales tax that's proposed by your specific city council.

If you live in the unincorporated county or in municipalities like Greer or Fountain Inn that are not running a municipal sales tax referendum this cycle, you will get to vote only on those first two countywide questions.

And, you know, your ballot is determined by your district lines and municipal boundaries.

So the best way to verify what you're going to see is to use the official voter tools provided by the South Carolina State Election Commission, which are available on our candidate lookup tool that Nathaniel mentioned.

The law allows municipalities located in counties without an existing local sales tax to place their own one-cent capital project sales tax on the ballot.

And there are only two counties without this, our own in Oconee.

So all six of our cities were eligible to do it, and all but Greer and Fountain Inn did so.

So each of the cities developed their own project list.

What city?

A little town called Fountain Inn is south of Greenville, which is, we're about halfway between

Charlotte and Atlanta.

And Top Tech's right there.

I told you you'd hear scores like this a lot.

Westside 56, Fountain Inn 42.

Burns 50, Woodmont 10.

Go right back, Rob, to Westside beating Fountain Inn 56-42.

That might have been the best quarterback matchup.

You had a great quarterback matchup, Sumter Ridgeview, Trey Howard, Franklin Richardson.

But Westside and Fountain Inn, if you didn't know, that's Sam Holliday, Touchstone Energy Bowl quarterback, and then Bear Woods, highly recruited player for Westside.

I know you had your eyes on that one.

I'm Katy Smith with Greater Good Greenville, and on this episode of Simple Civics Greenville County, we feature interviews with your candidates for State House of Representatives District 27, Democrat John MacCarthy and Republican David Vaughan.

District 27 runs along I-385, covering southeast Malden, most of Simpsonville, and parts of Northwest Fountain Inn.

Here's how the interviews worked.

All candidates received the same questions at the time of their invitation to join us, and they were given 10 minutes for their interview.

Thanks so much for being here.

Well, thank you very much for having me here today and for the service that you provide to our community.

I'm John MacCarthy, and I'm running again as a Democrat for the South Carolina State House District 27, which is Simpsonville, Malden, and Fountain Inn.

So why am I running? Well, for the last two decades, the party that has controlled our state has focused on protecting the wealthy and the powerful special interests.

I didn't even know it was there.

I've been in Fountain Inn and Simpsonville since 2002, and I never knew it was there.

There was a lot of people that would go there and smoke and drink and things.

I guess it was something a lot of high schoolers had done before us.

What we wanna do this morning is talk to you about how you came about to find Katie.

Just ask you some, some basic questions, okay?

Oh, these two guys called and said that they had found Katie's body in an abandoned house between Simpsonville and Fountain Inn.

So tell me what happened once you got to the abandoned house tonight.

Jason Tone joining us.

The Yellowjackets fresh off a 22-14 victory over a good Fountain Inn team.

Coach, we'll start right there.

You're 5-1, but more importantly, you just picked up a region win.

So take us back, if you would, to last week.

Heading into that game, knowing that was a good Fountain Inn team, and walk us through what your players did right to get a win in what I think is gonna be a highly competitive league this year.

Well, they did a good job of, um, you know, focusing on the, the quarterback and what all he does well for them.

You know, defensively, that was our goal was to try and limit, you know, I don't know if you can necessarily stop him, uh, but limit, you know, his explosiveness.

Mm-hmm.

Including the rapidly growing Simpsonville and Fountain Inn areas.

Cool.

So that's not far from us at all.

What have you experienced besides the traffic today? How have you seen it?

Mm.

Well, my district, District 16, Simpsonville, Fountain Inn areas, is one of the largest, fastest-growing districts in the state, and the growth has far outpaced, you know, the development-

I'm, I'm not-

Pendleton 36, St. Joseph 7.

T.L. Hanna beats Fountain Inn 22-14.

That's a big game.

That's a big win for T.L. Hanna, so that's when you want to put a star by.