From Walmart’s news release:  Walmart to launch its free online grocery pickup service at four Columbia-area stores Walmart is launching its online grocery pickup service at four Columbia-area stores starting May 19. The free service enables customers to order groceries online and pick them up at their local Walmart store without even leaving their cars. […]

Lexington Medical Center broke ground on its 10-story, 545,000-sq-ft tower Monday. The addition will include 71 inpatient beds to the 428-bed hospital, with the ability to add more in the future. Pictured are Todd Cullum, Michael Byrd, Gene Griffin, Richard Herring, Justin Strickland, Joel Tyson, Melinda Kruzner, David Lamb, Joel Tyson, Richard Westbrook and Tod […]

A high-profile structure in the City of Cayce is about to get some attention. Eric Henn, a nationally renowned mega-muralist, is scheduled to begin painting “Carolina Sunset” (aka the Gamecock Water Tank Mural.) The tower is on Charleston Highway. It’s a Public Works of HeART project. Public Works of HeART is creating a Facebook page just for […]

A grand-opening ceremony Cayce’s Walmart Neighborhood Grocery will be held at 7:30 a.m. June 29. The store is at 1355 Knox-Abbott Drive. It will be open 24 hours, according to the announcement about the Grand Opening. . For those interested in working at the Walmart Neighborhood Market, applications are being taken at 105 N. 12th […]

A Columbia firefighter was injured battling an early-morning fire in West Columbia, Monday. The injury is said to be not life-threatening. The fire was at Edgewater on the Saluda, a condominium complex on Edgewater Lane in West Columbia. The complex is off of Comanche Trail, near the Saluda River. It  is not in the City […]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Airport High School’s First Graduating Classes Holding  Annual Class Reunion Airport High School’s Classes of 1964 and 1965 will hold their Annual Class Reunion on May 21, , at the American Legion on American Legion Drive in Lexington. Social hour from 5:30 – 6:30.  Dinner, catered by Hudson’s, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Anyone interested in attending or for […]

Elliott and the Untouchables is a band that brings a crowd with it when it plays. That was the case Saturday at Rhythm on the River. The band filled the West Columbia Riverwalk Amphitheater, with old fans and a lot of new ones, too. There was lots of good food and plenty to drink, as […]

The smell of smoking bar-b-que was in the air Friday afternoon in Springdale. Children ran from truck to truck, and parents studied menus to see what looked best. It was perfect weather and a crowd that chatted, and visited with neighbors, before and after they grabbed a bite of a little something different. Grilled foods, waffles, […]