The Eighth-Grade Performing Arts Company (PAC) of Busbee Creative Arts Academy will present Annie Jr. at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the school. “The Performing Arts Company has worked hard to make this one of our best performances yet,” said Dr. Dixon Brooks, Busbee’s principal. Brooks said the school is offering the opportunity to purchase tickets […]

The City of West Columbia invites you to the Fall Back Festival on the 100 Block of State Street on Friday, November 4, 2016, from 5 PM – 8 PM. The event will feature live music from Stillhouse, food from the Wurst Wagon and other local businesses. There will be live street mural paintings by […]

The Lexington School District 2 Board heard a plan, last Thursday, that outlined a major renovation for Saluda River Academy for the Arts (SRAA.) The school was at one time slated to be absorbed into a mega-elementary school, but that plan has faded because the new elementary school would be too big, and there has […]

Eleanor Siedschlag spent more than 30 years as a teacher in Lexington School District 2. She was inducted into the Heros and Heroines Society at last Thursday’s school board meeting. Siedschlag was the 32nd teacher to be inducted since the society began in the 1990-91 School Year. Linda Alford-Wooten, chairwoman of the Lexington 2 Board […]

Sen. Nikki Setzler said the opportunity period to comment on a plan that could result in a rod through the West Columbia neighborhood of Quail Hollow has been extended. Setzler said he explained to SCDOT officials “that many residents in Quail Hollow just recently learned of the proposed malfunction junction alternative that would devastate the Quail Hollow […]

The Brookland-Cayce Cheer Team won its third First Place in a week. The BC team placed first in the Forest Acres Cheer Classic, Saturday. The team won the Silver Fox Invitational at Dutch Fork High school last Saturday and the Battle at the Bluff last Monday, at Rive Bluff High School

Some children in foster care will get some needed items thanks to a donation. The Forgotten  Initiative – part of Lifesong for Orphan,  delivered “Journey Bags” to SAFY (Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth) in Columbia Wednesday morning with a little help from House of Raeford. The bags will go to children as they enter […]

In high school football Friday night Brookland-Cayce  won at Swansea, 35- 12.  Airport took a road loss at highly ranked South Aiken,  70 -21. On Thursday night Gray Collegiate won 49-3 over Eau Claire in a game played at Columbia’s Spirit Communications Park.