At approximately 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, bus number 4 transporting students home from Congaree/ Wood Early Childhood Center and Congaree Elementary was hit in the rear by a pick-up truck. The bus was in the process of making a routine bus stop at the home of some of our students when the accident occurred. School officials […]

Brookland-Cayce High School will hold its Homecoming parade, Friday. The parade starts at 3:20 p.m. and should end before 5 p.m. Expect a few traffic traffic delays The parade starts on 7th Street and makes a left onto Indigo Avenue then to 9th Street. Then make a right on 9th and then a left onto […]

Gamecock Head Baseball Coach Chad Holbrook spoke at Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce Breakfast meeting, Tuesday. It was held at The Hall at Senate’s End. Holbrook said he was not sure what he would speak of when he arrived at the meeting, but after seeing Joseph “Clay” Dixon receive the Lexington Medical Center Foundation […]

Laura Liger, an English-Language Arts teacher at Swansea High Freshman Academy, was recognized at the Teacher-of-the-Month at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce Breakfast meeting, Tuesday. It was held at The Hall at Senate’s End. Swansea High Freshman Academy Principal Craig Baker said Liger is a naturally gifted teacher, who has a positive attitude. Swansea High Freshman Academy […]

Pine Ridge Patrolman Jonathan Watkins was recognized as the Law Enforcement Officer-of-the-Month Tuesday.  The award was presented by Vaughn Dozier  of First Community Bank in West Columbia. Watkins was accompanied by Pine Ridge Mayor David Busbee. The award was presented at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce Breakfast meeting meeting, Tuesday. It was held at The Hall at Senate’s […]

First Sgt. Michael Rowland was recognized with the Lexington Medical Center Foundation’s Live Well Award, Tuesday.  The award was presented by Lexington Medical Center Foundation’s Renee Dooley at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce meeting, Tuesday. It was held at The Hall at Senate’s End. Rowland, who has been awarded the Bronze Star along with […]

Joseph “Clay” Dixon received the Lexington Medical Center Foundation Live Well Award, Tuesday morning. Clay lives in Swansea and is a ninth-grade student at the Swansea High Freshman Academy. When he was younger, Clay had always had trouble speaking. He would slur his words. “Often people had trouble understanding me,” Clay said. Months of speech […]

There were 8,897 students in Lexington School District 2 as of Sept. 1. That’s down slightly compared to district enrollment numbers for the same date in 2014-15. Last year, 10 days after the start of school, enrollment was 8,905. Lexington School District 2 released 10-day enrollment numbers last week for the 2015-16 school year. There […]