Springdale’s first Food Truck Friday was in April. It was such a success, Springdale is doing it again. Springdale next Food Truck Friday is Friday, May 6, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Food trucks scheduled to attend include: Scott Benny’s, Carol and Lorraine’s Grill on Wheels, Size Matters BBQ, Brain Freeze Italian Ice, The Wurst Wagon, […]

West Columbia will have two more units to pump chlorine at its water plant. West Columbia City Council approved a lease, at Tuesday’s council meeting, for mixed oxidant solution equipment. It will treat water the city provides for its water approximately 40,000 customers in Lexington County. The lease is with MIOX Corporation for 12 months […]

Cayce has money to fix flood damage to its Riverwalk. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has released $1.4 million to the City of Cayce. Cayce City Manager Rebecca Vance announced the funding at Cayce City Council’s meeting, Tuesday. Landplan Group South was selected as the company to work on the Riverwalk repair. It […]

Lexington 2 School District was well-represented at the SC Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s last concert of the season, Sunday. Students from Brookland-Cayce and Airport High Schools participated in the concert. It was held at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia. Students from public, private and home schools from across the state audition to become […]

Two suspects arrested, charged with murder in Gaston shooting death  A man and a woman have been charged with murder in connection with a fatal shooting last week on Meadowfield Road in Gaston.  Fareen Rasheed Makeen and Teresa Farris Epley were present and involved with the shooting death of Ryan Williams last Friday at approximately […]

CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE Lexington Interfaith Community Services (LICS)  announces that for every dollar raised for LICS on May 3, through Midlands Gives, House of Raeford Farms is donating one pound of chicken to stock the LICS mobile food pantry. The mobile food pantry visits throughout Lexington County.  Stay tuned for details on how you can give […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual who was shot at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Friday  (April 29.) The shooting occurred, according to Fisher,  in the 1200 block of Meadowfield Road in Gaston. The person shot was Ryan Williams, 21, of Swansea. An autopsy performed on Williams indicated that he suffered a single […]

The West Columbia Regular Council Meeting is 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 3, at West Columbia City Hall, 200 N. 12th Street, West Columbia. The agenda: Mr. Gregory Sprouse and Mr. Reginald Simmons, Central Midlands Council of Governments, Re: Request for the City of West Columbia to Participate in the “Regional Bike and Pedestrian Master Planning” and Contribute $10,000 […]