A Community Health and Wellness Fair is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 2491 Emmanuel Church Rd., in West Columbia. Free health screenings, community resources for vision, dental, nutrition, safety and other resources to help community with health and wellness needs will be available. There will be a 3-in-1 bounce house, a face […]

A little after 9 this morning, power at Northside Middle School in West Columbia was disrupted due to a blown transformer. Parents were lined up in front of the school Monday morning to pick up children. Parents were notified that they may pick up their students.  In the interest of safety, provisions have been made for students that […]

The Youth of Trinity Baptist Church in Cayce made sure members of the Cayce Department of Public Safety had food, drinks and a lot of encouragement as they dealt with Hurricane Matthew. The members of the church brought the food to Cayce’s Emergency Operations Center.

City of Cayce Offices will be Open and operating at normal hours starting Monday morning. City trash and recyclables will be picked up according to normal hours this week. Please note that our City staff has been working around the clock and will pick up debris as quickly as possible! City Parks will reopen tomorrow; […]

Lexington 2 schools will be open Monday and operate on a normal schedule.  From Jim Hinton of Lexington School District 2: Lexington School District Two Schools will operate on a normal schedule Monday, October 10, 2016. Lexington District Two asks all staff and students to report to school Monday at their regular times.  

There were 10,010 homes in Lexington County with no power around 7 a.m. Saturday, according to SCE&G. By 8:45 a.m. there were close to 20,000 without power in Lexington County. The company anticipated 100,000 outages from Hurricane Matthew. The category 2 hurricane brushed the coast near Hilton Head overnight.

S.C. Electric and Gas officials are expecting 105 mph winds, a storm surge of 10-to-12-feet and a foot-to-15-inches of rain from Hurricane Matthew. SCE&G President Keller Kissam spoke at a press conference Friday afternoon, where he offered assurance. “We are prepared for this event,” Kissam said. He said the utility company has a personnel force […]