admin@westmetro_news
Plans were announced, Thursday, for a new 1,500-seat Brookland High School basketball arena at 613 Knox-Abbott Drive, Cayce. The Lexington Two School Board has purchased 3.10 acres currently occupied by the Motel 6. Plans are to demolish the motel and build the new $10.5 million Brookland-Cayce High School arena on the site. The site for […]
Read More >>
The Lexington School District 2 Board heard a plan, Thursday night, that would move a proposed elementary school from Henbet Drive to 16.73 acres on Cougar Drive, across from Northside Middle School. The K-5 school would combine BC Grammar School No. 1 students and students from Pineview Elementary School. The Henbet school would have also […]
Read More >>The Lexington 2 School Board voted, Thursday, to use Nov. 11, as a make-up day for the three days missed during Hurricane Matthew. The was a no-school day because it is Veteran’s Day. If the state does not forgive the other two missed days for the hurricane, two days could be made up in February […]
Read More >>
The Lexington 2 School Board voted Thursday night, to name the new elementary school Cayce Elementary. Griffins will be the mascot and maroon and gray are the colors. The school is being built off of 12th Street Extension.
Read More >>
The Arts Unlimited class of Saluda Academy for the Arts ( SRAA) brought down the house at the S.C. State Fair, Thursday. Link to Music sample The performing arts troupe of third, fourth, and fifth-grade students performed a salute to Fort Jackson and the military on the WLTX stage. “These students have worked hard,” said Kayla […]
Read More >>
Below is a letter released by state Sen. Nikki Setzler: My friend, – This is incredibly important… You may not have heard, but SCDOT is considering solutions to fix the “Carolina Crossroads” — or what most of us know as Malfunction Junction at the intersection at I-20/I-26/I-126. One of the alternatives SCDOT has proposed would go […]
Read More >>
The Brookland-Cayce High School Girls Cross Country Team finished second in the Region 5 3A meet, Wednesday. The meet was held at Pelion High School. Three members of the team were named to the All Region Team. Ainsley Allen (7th-grade) finished fourth, Lyndsey Ebner (12th-grade) finished seventh and Madison Ezzelle (11th-grade) finished ninth in the […]
Read More >>
The White Rose Artisans Boutique to have fair and fundraiser, Sunday. The boutique is at 831 Meeting St. West Columbia. In all 13 artisans will be on hand. There will be a fundraisers for the Pet Oxygen Project, too.
Read More >>