Month: December 2018
Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon notified the public around 4:15 a.m. Saturday morning of an officer-involved shooting that occurred around 10:45 Friday night on Founders Road at Founders Boulevard in Lexington. Ronald Scott Jenkins, 55, suffered a gunshot wound and died after being transported to a hospital, according to Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher. Jenkins, […]
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December 24 and December 25 will be picked up Wednesday, December 26 (household garbage only!) January 1 Household garbage, yard trash and recyclables will be picked up on Wednesday, January 2.
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The City of West Columbia City Hall will be closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 24, 25, and 26, 2018, in observance of the Christmas holidays. Regular hours will resume on Thursday, December 27, 2018. City Hall offices will also be closed on Tuesday, January 1, 2019, in observance of New Year’s Day. Regular hours […]
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It’s the weekend before Christmas and West Columbia is in a festive spirit thanks to a very good year for many. The city is on pace in 2018 to record an 80 percent increase in the number of business licenses it issues. “It has been a super busy year,” said Melissa Sprouse-Browne, who owns the […]
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The Lexington Two School Board has not yet decided if it will support a proposed tax plan designed to improve a large portion of West Columbia, but the Chamber has. The Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce – earlier this week – sent a letter to members in support of the City of West Columbia’s […]
Read More >>Sgt. Bill Hobbs and Cpl. Nic Beza of the Lexington Police Department helped deliver a baby in a vehicle in a Lexington parking lot, Tuesday morning. The parents, on the way to the hospital, had to take a detour because of a blocked interstate. According to an LPD report the baby is “healthy, happy and […]
Read More >>Brandon Coleman, a 24 year old Batesburg man, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for the 2016 shooting of multiple vehicles along Interstate 20 in Lexington County. Suzanne Mayes, from the Office of 11th Circuit Solicitor Rick Hubbard announced the sentence Tuesday. Coleman was sentenced following a plea in Lexington County to Assault […]
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The Greater Cayce West Columbia Chamber of Commerce supports the City of West Columbia’s Triangle City Tax Increment Financing District (the “Triangle City TIF”). City of West Columbia created the Triangle City TIF, which consists of 428 parcels and covers 290 acres. A map of the Triangle City TIF is enclosed. The City of West […]
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