Three Lexington School District 2 middle schools received Palmetto Silver Awards, Thursday, and one Palmetto Gold Award was presented. Busbee, Pine Ridge and Fulmer Middle received Silver and Northside Middle received Gold. The awards were presented at Lexington 2’s Board meeting, Thursday night. The Palmetto Silver and Gold Awards program is designed to recognize schools for […]

The West Columbia Beautification Foundation (WCBF) held its Tribute for Trees event Thursday evening. It’s a fundraising effort to sponsor tree and plant projects in West Columbia. The WCBF sells trees to contributors and raised $17,000 during the Tribute for Trees last year. The amount raised this year appears to have exceeded last year’s total. […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the person who was found dead in West Columbia at approximately 7:30 a.m.  on Thursday. The name of the person found dead is Michael Andy McMillan, 30,  of Columbia. Double Branch Road is between Sunset Boulevard and Greenwood Road. His body was found in the 1600 block of […]

The 2016-17 School Year opens for Lexington School District 2, Thursday. Almost 9,000 students will begin classes at the district’s 16 schools in Cayce, West Columbia Pine Ridge and South Congaree. In addition to busses carrying thousands of children to school- parents who drop-off and pick-up will be on the road too after the summer […]

The 2016-17 School Year opens for Lexington School District 2, Thursday. Almost 9,000 students will begin classes at the district’s 16 schools in Cayce, West Columbia Pine Ridge and South Congaree. Students range in age from 3K to adult education. One half of the children in the district ride the bus to school. With breakfast, […]

Students return to class Thursday (Aug. 18.) While they were gone some things changed in Lexington School District 2 over the summer. Work continued on the new elementary school, that is under construction on the 12th Street Extension in Cayce. It’s beside Busbee Creative Arts Academy. It is scheduled to open in fall 2017. Projects […]

Things will look different for Brookland-Cayce High School football in 2016. The Bearcats open the season at home- taking on Lake Marion at 7:30 p.m., Friday. The biggest change this year is the Bearcats’ conference schedule. There will be Airport, Aiken or Midland Valley in 3A Region V. Brookland-Cayce’s (BC’s) will be in the same […]

A new, but temporary, road is being dug in parts of West Columbia. The addition is part of SCE&G’s effort to rebuild its lines to transmit power from the nuclear reactors being constructed at its station in Fairfield County. Part of the road is being constructed behind Providence Presbyterian Church, off of Sunset Boulevard in […]