Emily Shafer, who attends Pine Ridge Middle School, was selected as the Lexington School District 2 Student of the Month during the Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, Tuesday. Pine Ridge Principal Brad Coleman presented Emily with the award.

The Board of Trustees of Lexington School District Two will conduct its Regular Monthly Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Board Room of the District Education Center, 715 Ninth Street, West Columbia, SC.   The proposed Agenda is linked.  Notices and Agendas are also posted on the District’s website, www.lex2.org / […]

The Dickerson Children’s Advocacy Center is holding its Annual Mardi Gras Gala Benefit on Saturday,   Feb. 13, from 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. There will be music by The Coastal Breeze Band with complimentary beverages and heavy hors d’oeuvres. For more information please call 803-791-1511. The mission of the Dickerson Children’s Advocacy Center is […]

The West Columbia Fire Department responded to a report of a jumper from the Jarvis Klapman Bridge around 6 p.m. Monday. Emergency crews from West Columbia and Columbia performed a rescue effort, but no one was found. The search was called off after 7 p.m. Officials will continue to investigate to determine if there was an […]

National School Choice Week is this week. To commemorate the occasion, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson was in West Columbia to tour East Point Academy (EPA.) “Speaking Chinese will open so many doors for you,” Wilson told students at the school that focuses on the teaching of the Chinese language Thursday. There is an EPA campus […]

A pair of suspects in the armed robbery of a Lexington County business are also wanted for attempting to fraudulently use checks reported as stolen from the same business. According to Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives, two Hispanic males robbed the La Gaviota Grocery on Augusta Highway on Jan. 10. The suspects took some cash and […]

The big snow storm of 2016 has not produced much in Cayce and West Columbia. Many anxious kids, who really wanted to see snow, get to see a little. Early Saturday morning, there was some snow on rooftops, and some snow stuck to cars, but there was not much else.

Batesburg Man Arrested on Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor charge  South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Brannon James Hall (DOB: 1994) of Batesburg, South Carolina on six (6) charges connected to sexual exploitation of minors.  The Lexington County Sheriff’s Office, a member of the state’s ICAC Task Force, made the […]