West Columbia City Council, at a 9 a.m. meeting Tuesday, passed final reading of an ordinance that implements a 2% Hospitality Tax (H-Tax) for prepared food in the city. The H-Tax vote passed 7-2. Councilmen Jimmy Brooks and Tem Miles – for the second time- voted against the tax. Brooks said there is no reason […]

West Columbia City Council, at a rare 9 a.m. meeting Tuesday, passed final reading of its 2016-17 $16.8 million general fund budget and a water-sewer budget. Facing annual increases for its water and sewer department of more than $2 million, the water-sewer budget includes an increase in fees of between $4 and $4.50-a-month for in-city […]

From Adam Myrick of the LCSD A Lexington woman has been charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of her infant daughter. Heather Marie Lawson, 22, of Lexington failed to provide her 7-month-old baby necessary health care after the child was injured Saturday in a fall, according to an arrest warrant served by […]

Springdale has distinguished police chief Springdale Police Chief Kevin Cornett has been chosen by the International Association of Chiefs of Police as one of the 40 under 40 award winners. “This is a great honor and distinction,” said Mayor Michael Bishop.  

Lexington School District 2’s Daniel Bailey received the Warren E. Shull Award for the National Middle Level Adviser of the Year. The award is given by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Bailey is a social studies teacher and student government advisor at Pine Ridge Middle School in West Columbia. “Words cannot express how […]

Activity all but ceased last week on part of the lower Saluda River. The Department of Health and Environmental Control issued a no-swim advisory last Tuesday, because of high bacteria counts in the Saluda Shoals Park area. Carolina Water Service allowed sewage to seep into the river. On Saturday- at the Moffitt Street entrance to […]

There will be a Car Wash at 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Saturday at Ricky’s Tire and Auto Center, 1534 Sunset Blvd. It’s for the benefit of the Brookland-Cayce High School Rugby Team.

A Batesburg man has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for a hit and run collision involving a great bodily injury. Judge Frank R. Addy Jr., imposed the sentence on Clayton Dell Kneece, 34. On the evening of February 5, 2016, a pickup truck struck pedestrian, William Barnes, 45, of Leesville, on Ben Franklin […]