Month: March 2017

Candlelight vigil scheduled for Kelly Family, fire victims

A candlelight vigil has been scheduled for the Kelly Family. The Kelly Family lost four members to a fire, early Tuesday morning. The vigil is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Brookland-Cayce High School flag pole. A prayer session will be held for the family. One of the Kelly Family children, who survived, is a […]

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Candlelight vigil scheduled for Kelly Family, fire victims

A candlelight vigil has been scheduled for the Kelly Family. The Kelly Family lost four members to a fire, early Tuesday morning. The vigil is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Brookland-Cayce High School flag pole. A prayer session will be held for the family. One of the Kelly Family children, who survived, is a […]

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At Davis, Book Buddies encourage a love for reading

At Davis Early Childhood Center for Technology in Cayce, students help each other. On Friday mornings Davis conducts “Book Buddies.” “The second-graders read to the kindergarten students,” said Dr. Cecil McClary, Davis principal, explaining Book Buddies. He said the kindergarten students anticipate the time to spend with the second-graders. The second-graders love it, too. “The […]

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Carolina Water Service fined $78,940

Carolina Water Service has been fined $78,940 for dumping sewage into the Lower Saluda River. Carolina Water Service does business in Lexington County. The amount of the fine was revealed Monday in an agenda for a board meeting of the the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. The fine will have to be approved […]

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Airport’s Alaisha Gardner and BC’s Colleen Guseman named to All-State Choir

Alaisha Gardner,  a senior at Airport High School and Colleen Guseman, a junior at Brookland-Cayce High School have been selected as members of the S.C. Music Educators Association 2017 All-State Choir. The students are from Lexington School District 2 and they are members of their school’s Advanced Choir.  Lexington District 2 High School Choral Directors are […]

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BC Honors Choir performs at Educator Association’s music festival

Brookland-Cayce Honors Choir members who are also members of the Lexington District 2 Vocal Performance Class performed in the S.C. Music Educator’s Association Solo and Ensemble Festival. It was held at Ridge View High School, Feb. 25.  The students received four Superior ratings and three ratings of Excellent on their individual solo performances. The District Vocal […]

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Brookland-Cayce Chorus participates in USC Honor Choir

Members of the Brookland-Cayce Chorus participated in the annual University of South Carolina Honor Choir under the direction of Dr. Larry Wyatt. The students performed Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C with orchestra. The perforamnce was on Feb. 25, in Johnson Hall in the  Darla Moore International School of Business located on the USC campus. Pictured […]

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Units battle two house fires in West Columbia

Seven people were displaced after fires broke out in two separate residences in West Columbia on Tuesday afternoon. County of Lexington emergency personnel responded to a residential structure fire call in the 4000 block of Florentine Road just before 1:30 p.m. Upon arrival, Lexington County firefighters observed heavy smoke and flames coming from two structures […]

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