The cost to enhance three Lexington 2 schools was presented at the Lexington 2 School Board meeting Thursday night. Approximately 11,000-sq-ft. will be renovated at Pine Ridge Middle School with the addition of a cafeteria. The cost for that project is just under $5.9 million, it was announced at the meeting. Construction on the project […]

  High school football season begins tonight. Brookland-Cayce is hosting Lake Marion at 7:30 p.m. Friday. And BC will hit the 2016 campaign head on. “They’ve got something they call the hammer,” said Brookland-Cayce Head Coach and Athletic Director Rusty Charpia. “They hammer left and they hammer right,” he said of Lake Marion Head Coach Leonard […]

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is reporting a fatal accident that occurred near Pelion Thursday evening. Lance Cpl. Matt Southern of the SCHP said a 2012 Tractor Trailer traveling west on US 178 close to Fairview and Water Tank roads collided with a Ford SUV travelling east. The driver in the Ford SUV was killed. […]

Three Lexington School District 2 middle schools received Palmetto Silver Awards, Thursday, and one Palmetto Gold Award was presented. Busbee, Pine Ridge and Fulmer Middle received Silver and Northside Middle received Gold. The awards were presented at Lexington 2’s Board meeting, Thursday night. The Palmetto Silver and Gold Awards program is designed to recognize schools for […]

The West Columbia Beautification Foundation (WCBF) held its Tribute for Trees event Thursday evening. It’s a fundraising effort to sponsor tree and plant projects in West Columbia. The WCBF sells trees to contributors and raised $17,000 during the Tribute for Trees last year. The amount raised this year appears to have exceeded last year’s total. […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the person who was found dead in West Columbia at approximately 7:30 a.m.  on Thursday. The name of the person found dead is Michael Andy McMillan, 30,  of Columbia. Double Branch Road is between Sunset Boulevard and Greenwood Road. His body was found in the 1600 block of […]

The 2016-17 School Year opens for Lexington School District 2, Thursday. Almost 9,000 students will begin classes at the district’s 16 schools in Cayce, West Columbia Pine Ridge and South Congaree. In addition to busses carrying thousands of children to school- parents who drop-off and pick-up will be on the road too after the summer […]