The boys basketball team of West Columbia’s Gray Collegiate Academy remains undefeated. Gray won the Lower Richland Tip-Off Classic in November.  In the tournament, Gray defeated Fort Mill, Lower Richland and Westwood to take home the title. This week Gray knocked off another 4A school. The War Eagles defeated  Northwestern High School of Rock Hill […]

Botanical Parkway was one of the most-damaged roads in West Columbia, by the October floods. It will be the most expensive to repair, and the most-impassable for a while. “We expect it to be in the next calendar year,” said Joey Derby, Lexington County Engineer, of the repair schedule for the road. The cost for […]

Christmas In Cayce -38th Annual Tree Lighting Thursday 6 p.m.   City of Cayce Municipal Complex 1800 12th Street Cayce This event is hosted by The Woman’s Club of Cayce and includes greetings from city officials, holiday thoughts, musical selections, and a visit from Santa. Proceeds from the sale of lights for the tree will […]

Put any knowledgeable college football mind -looking for a head coach –  in a room for a week. Let him sift through a bucket full of names. Would he be able to find a prime candidate, then get his target? When Steve Spurrier was at Duke, a basketball school, he had one losing season. Then he […]

Solara Investments plans to build a hotel near Lexington Medical Center on Sunset Boulevard, West Columbia, according to a NAI Avant press release. According to the release: NAI Avant senior brokers Jeff Hein, SIOR and Roger Winn recently represented the seller in the sale of 3 acres of land on a prime development site, located […]

Airport Boys win 63-52 at Strom Thurmond. Brookland-Cayce Boys win at home over Orangeburg-Wilkinson, 70-54.

More plans for an “iconic” development called Brookland were revealed Tuesday evening. Matt Mundy said, of Estates, Inc., told of a project – to be built at the corner of State and Meeting in West Columbia – that will be a visual event to traffic coming toward it. He said the plan is to make […]

Newly elected West Columbia Mayor Bobby Horton was elected chairman of city council, Tuesday. Councilman Tem Miles nominated Horton for the chairman position. No one else was nominated. Councilwoman Casey Hallman nominated Teddy Wingard for mayor pro-tem. Miles nominated Dale Harley. Harley was elected pro-tem in a 7-2 secret ballot. Controversy surrounded the council chairman […]