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The Board of Trustees for Lexington School District Two approved the following new Principal appointments effective July 1, 2016: Christopher Dickey has been named Principal of B-C Grammar School No. 1. Dickey earned a B.S. from Claflin University, an M.Ed. from Fayetteville State University, and an Ed.S. from SC State University. David Basile has […]
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Release from Harrison Cahill, Lexington County, PIO. Double Eagle Circle structure fire destroys home. County of Lexington emergency personnel responded to a residential structure fire near the Red Bank community Sunday evening. Just after 10 p.m., Lexington County 911 dispatched Lexington County Fire Service and EMS to the 300 block of Double Eagle Circle in […]
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Want to live in a new, hybrid home? Wade McGuinn has a neighborhood with new homes, and you don’t even have to leave West Columbia to live in one. Harvest Glen includes 54 houses. It is off of Leaphart Road. It’s a community near everything, from I-26 and Lexington Medical Center to I-20 and downtown […]
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Denea Duran is Cayce-West Columbia Chamber’s Ambassador of the Month Denea Duran is from San Francisco, CA. She moved to Columbia for college. After college she stayed in Columbia and started working as a Social Media Intern for SERVPRO of Cayce/ West Columbia and Lexington. Four years later she is the Marketing and Sales Manager […]
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With the June 28, Republican Primary Runoff for Register of Deeds getting closer, Rich Bolen picked up the support from two Lexington County leaders on Saturday. Sen. Ronnie Cromer and Rep. Todd Atwater jumped on board Bolen’s campaign. “Ever since the June 14, primary, leaders across Lexington County have gotten on board our campaign,” Bolen said. “They […]
Read More >>Coroner Margaret Fisher said that Christian William Kallenbach, 49, of Chapin died as a result of the injuries he sustained when the motorcycle he was operating alone was traveling in the 3000 block of Wessinger Road in Chapin when the motorcycle left the roadway on the right side and went into a ditch. Kallenbach was pronounced dead at the scene from […]
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West Columbia City Council has scheduled a Special Council Meeting for 6 p.m. Monday (June 20.) The meetings are at City Hall, 200 N. 12th Street, West Columbia. There will be a first reading and Public Hearings on the General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2016-2017, an ordinance for a 2% Hospitality Tax, and an ordinance that will set […]
Read More >>A 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle ran off the right side of the road and hit a culvert, killing the rider. The name of the victim has not yet been released by the Lexington County Coroner.
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