Month: October 2017

Vehicles towed, at $175, by Tillman Towing from Hilburn Holdings lot during BC-C Team football game

If you had the misfortune of parking in the Hilburn Holdings parking lot for the Brookland-Cayce C-Team football game Wednesday, you got a big post-game surprise. Hilburn Holdings, at the corner of 7th Street and Knox-Abbott Drive called in Tillman towing to impound your vehicle. Cost to get your car back: $175. That is double […]

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Longtime Springdale cafeteria employees work hard, have fun

It’s National School Lunch week While many people are just waking up, Shirley Butler and Girley Rawl are hard at work just before 6 a.m. in the cafeteria at Springdale Elementary. It’s the way they’ve started their weekdays for decades, preparing meals at Lexington Two schools. With National School Lunch Week Oct. 9-13, much has […]

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Marie Dawkins Gregory, longtime Fulmer Middle School teacher, passes away, visitation Sunday

Cayce- Marie Dawkins Gregory, of Cayce, South Carolina, passed away October 9, 2017, after battling health issues for several years. She was born on July 18, 1957 in Newberry, South Carolina, to Bobby and Ida Underwood. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Masters plus thirty in Physical Education. She taught and […]

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Pink Out for breast cancer has special meaning in West Columbia

Breast cancer gets a lot of attention, especially in the month of October. And that certainly rings true in West Columbia. West Columbia Community Liaison Sandra “Sandy” Vergara Duarte died on Sept. 25, after years of battling breast cancer. She was with the city for 17 years. Her life – and her fight- made a […]

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Pink Out for breast cancer has special meaning in West Columbia

Breast cancer gets a lot of attention, especially in the month of October. And that certainly rings true in West Columbia. West Columbia Community Liaison Sandra “Sandy” Vergara Duarte died on Sept. 25, after years of battling breast cancer. She was with the city for 17 years. Her life – and her fight- made a […]

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Pink Out for breast cancer has special meaning in West Columbia

Breast cancer gets a lot of attention, especially in the month of October. And that certainly rings true in West Columbia. West Columbia Community Liaison Sandra “Sandy” Vergara Duarte died on Sept. 25, after years of battling breast cancer. She was with the city for 17 years. Her life – and her fight- made a […]

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Retiring West Columbia Fire Chief Wyatt Coleman receives resolution from Sen. Nikki Setzler

S.C. Sen. Nikki Setzler presented retiring West Columbia Fire Chief Wyatt Coleman a Senate Resolution last week. Setzler said the resolution was to congratulate Coleman for his 40 years of “outstanding service to the City of West Columbia.” There was a reception thrown by the City of West Columbia during the resolution presentation. A SENATE […]

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Retiring West Columbia Fire Chief Wyatt Coleman receives resolution from Sen. Nikki Setzler

S.C. Sen. Nikki Setzler presented retiring West Columbia Fire Chief Wyatt Coleman a Senate Resolution last week. Setzler said the resolution was to congratulate Coleman for his 40 years of “outstanding service to the City of West Columbia.” There was a reception thrown by the City of West Columbia during the resolution presentation. A SENATE […]

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