The Town of Chapin has hired Seth Zeigler to lead its Police Department, beginning Feb 8.  Zeigler, a Chapin native, most recently served as Captain of the Patrol Division for the West Columbia Police Department. “Seth Zeigler has risen through the ranks of the West Columbia Police Department over the past 17 years, holding numerous positions […]

T.J. Nelson (middle) receives LMC Foundation Living Well award from Butch Wallace of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s office. Renee Dooley, LMC Foundation, right. Tracy (T.J.) Nelson, a student at Pine Ridge Middle School was named as Lexington Medical Center Foundations’s Living Well Health Student at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber Breakfast, Tuesday morning. The breakfast […]

Emily Shafer, who attends Pine Ridge Middle School, was selected as the Lexington School District 2 Student of the Month during the Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, Tuesday. Pine Ridge Principal Brad Coleman presented Emily with the award.

The Board of Trustees of Lexington School District Two will conduct its Regular Monthly Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Board Room of the District Education Center, 715 Ninth Street, West Columbia, SC.   The proposed Agenda is linked.  Notices and Agendas are also posted on the District’s website, www.lex2.org / […]

The Dickerson Children’s Advocacy Center is holding its Annual Mardi Gras Gala Benefit on Saturday,   Feb. 13, from 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. There will be music by The Coastal Breeze Band with complimentary beverages and heavy hors d’oeuvres. For more information please call 803-791-1511. The mission of the Dickerson Children’s Advocacy Center is […]

The West Columbia Fire Department responded to a report of a jumper from the Jarvis Klapman Bridge around 6 p.m. Monday. Emergency crews from West Columbia and Columbia performed a rescue effort, but no one was found. The search was called off after 7 p.m. Officials will continue to investigate to determine if there was an […]

National School Choice Week is this week. To commemorate the occasion, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson was in West Columbia to tour East Point Academy (EPA.) “Speaking Chinese will open so many doors for you,” Wilson told students at the school that focuses on the teaching of the Chinese language Thursday. There is an EPA campus […]

A pair of suspects in the armed robbery of a Lexington County business are also wanted for attempting to fraudulently use checks reported as stolen from the same business. According to Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives, two Hispanic males robbed the La Gaviota Grocery on Augusta Highway on Jan. 10. The suspects took some cash and […]