Month: October 2022
Plans for a new mix-use development project in West Columbia were announced by Jams and Stark, Wednesday. The new project will be called Colite City. The Colite property is at 228 and 229 N. Parson Street in West Columbia. Phase one of the former Colonial-Hites Company manufacturing plant will involve using 150,000-plus sq. ft. of […]
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If you need to clean the clutter from your home, there is good news. The City of West Columbia is holding its Fall Recycling Day from 9 a.m. until noon, on Saturday, Oct 29, at West Columbia’s City Hall, 200 N. 12th Street. Residents can bring the following to City Hall for proper recycling: Scrap […]
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Airport High School Football player Apollos Cook and Brookland-Cayce High School Quarterback Tanner Staton have been chosen to play in the annual Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl. It was the former North-South All-Star game. The game will be played Dec. 10 at Myrtle Beach’s Doug Shaw Stadium.Cook was selected an an Athlete to play on the […]
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The election date for the Lexington Two School Board is Nov. 8. Four candidates are running for three Lexington 2 School Board seats. The candidates are: incumbents Christina Rucker and Linda Wooten. Also running are: Kevin Key, a former Lexington Two School Board member and Chuck Hightower. There was a School Board Candidate Forum, Monday, […]
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The West Columbia Police Department has been awarded $12,230.00 from the FY 2022 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) by the Department of Justice. The funds will be used to purchase two fully equipped police radios and seventeen additional batteries. In 2022, 1,557 local governments nationwide were awarded funding from this grant. The West […]
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West Columbia City Council proclaimed Oct. 23, as National Paralegal Day, at the October 2022 Special Council Meeting. Monday night.Debra Galloway, an attorney and Director of Midlands Technical College Paralegal Studies Program, was presented the proclamation by Councilman Joseph Dickey. (City of West Columbia photo)
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The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is working to locate 13-year-old Kylee Chandler. She was last seen Sept. 16 when she left her home. Kylee is 5’2” and weighs 120 pounds.If you have any contact with Kylee, or if you know where she might be, please call Investigator Cobb at 803-673-0013.
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Crews from the West Columbia Fire Department, the West Columbia Police Department and Lexington County EMS were on the scene of a vehicle crash, Monday morning. A vehicle was overturned and EMS crews were attending to the injured. A fire hose was also extended. The incident resulted in the back up of traffic to one […]
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