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West Columbia City Councilman Dale Harley passed away about 5 a.m. Thursday according to West Columbia Mayor Bobby Horton. “Dale will be sorely missed,” Horton said. “He was a real stalwart. You could always count on his good, sound advice. He knew what was going on and he had a good sense for doing the right […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]