Month: October 2016

Coroner identifies woman killed on I-20, Friday

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual killed in the three-vehicle accident that occurred at approximately 6 a.m. on Friday. Mary Frances Young, 58, of Columbia died at the scene due to injuries she sustained in the accident. It happened on I-20 at mile marker 47 in the eastbound lanes. The drivers of […]

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Cayce-West Columbia Jaycees Hall of Horrors is open

South Carolina’s longest running haunted house, The Cayce-West Columbia Jaycees Hall of Horrors, is OPEN from 8:00 – 11:00! Make sure to grab your friends and get scared this Halloween season. It’s at 1153 Walter Price St. Cayce. 

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New BCHS Basketball Arena planned for Cayce Motel 6 site

Plans were announced, Thursday, for a new 1,500-seat Brookland High School basketball arena at 613 Knox-Abbott Drive, Cayce. The Lexington Two School Board has purchased 3.10 acres currently occupied by the Motel 6. Plans are to demolish the motel and build the new $10.5 million Brookland-Cayce High School arena on the site. The site for […]

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New elementary school plan moves from Henbet to Cougar Dr., by Northside Middle

The Lexington School District 2 Board heard a plan, Thursday night,  that would move a proposed elementary school from Henbet Drive to 16.73 acres on Cougar Drive, across from Northside Middle School. The K-5 school would combine BC Grammar School No. 1 students and students from Pineview Elementary School. The Henbet school would have also […]

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Nov. 11 will be Lexington 2 make-up day

The Lexington 2 School Board voted, Thursday,  to use Nov. 11, as a make-up day for the three days missed during Hurricane Matthew. The was a no-school day because it is Veteran’s Day. If the state does not forgive the other two missed days for the hurricane, two days could be made up in February […]

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New elementary school to be Cayce Elementary

The Lexington 2 School Board voted Thursday night, to name the new elementary school Cayce Elementary. Griffins will be the mascot and maroon and gray are the colors. The school is being built off of 12th Street Extension.

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Saluda River’s Arts Unlimited performs at the SC State Fair

The Arts Unlimited class of Saluda Academy for the Arts ( SRAA) brought down the house at the S.C. State Fair, Thursday. Link to Music sample The performing arts troupe of third, fourth, and fifth-grade students performed a salute to Fort Jackson and the military on the WLTX stage. “These students have worked hard,” said Kayla […]

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Sen. Nikki Setzler says road through Quail Hollow would be devastating

Below is a letter released by state Sen. Nikki Setzler:  My friend, – This is incredibly important… You may not have heard, but SCDOT is considering solutions to fix the “Carolina Crossroads” — or what most of us know as Malfunction Junction at the intersection at I-20/I-26/I-126. One of the alternatives SCDOT has proposed would go […]

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