Anna Wilbourne, Pine Ridge Middle, SWU Student Teacher-of-the-Year Anna Wilbourne has received the Student-Teacher-of-the-Year Award from Southern Wesleyan University (SWU.) Wilbourne is a student teacher and a long-term substitute at Pine Ridge Middle School, in the Lexington 2 School District. The award was presented to Wilbourne, on April 25, by Susan Finley, SWU Assistant Professor […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]