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Santa and the Grinch Holiday Bazaar photos

The Santa and the Grinch Holiday Bazaar expo and holiday market shopping event is Saturday  from 9 until noon.  It’s at East Point Academy, just off of Sunset Boulevard. The bazaar is a Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce event.  

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Names of 4 fatalities in fiery crash, released by coroner

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has released the names of four people killed in a fiery crash, Friday evening. Those who died in the crash are: Harry C. Gunnells, 73 of Saluda. He was driving a Ford Sport Trac.  His wife Barbara Gunnells, 74 of Saluda, was in the backseat. Steven Gunnells, 16, the Gunnells’ […]

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4 reported dead in fiery Lexington County crash

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Brookland-Cayce, Airport lose in playoffs

Georgetown defeated Brookland-Cayce 33-13 at Georgetown. Airport lost at Hartsville, 35-10. The undefeated Red Foxes are the top 3A team in the state. The loss eliminates Airport and BC from the state 3A playoffs. The Eagles finish the season at 10-2, with a playoff win. The Bearcats finish the season at 5-7, with one playoff […]

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Girls on the Run in Cayce, Saturday

Girls on the Run will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. It starts and finishes at the Historic Columbia Speedway. More than 2,300 runners are expected to participate . Many Lexington 2 students will be running. 

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City of West Columbia has lifted a boil water advisory

The for water customers in the following areas: 2800 block of Franklin Street All of Shampy Street All of Bensmin Drive 2800 block of Kirkwood Drive All of Dalewood Drive All of Sandlewood Drive All of Morningdale Drive 2700, 2800, and 2900 blocks of Rainbow Drive Water customers in this area were advised to boil […]

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West Columbia’s Zak Stevens performs with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Friday

Zak Stevens will be a featured performer on lead vocals for Trans-Siberian Orchestra  (T.S.O.) when they appear at the Colonial Life Arena Friday,  on “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve” Winter Tour. Zak grew up in West Columbia, graduated from Brookland-Cayce High School in 1984, and is an alum of the University of South Carolina (’88). He started […]

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Pineview, Saluda River could remain open, new school size be reduced

The Lexington School District 2 Board voted to explore options that could keep Pineview Elementary and Saluda River Academy for the Arts, open. When a $225 million bond referendum was passed by voters in November 2014, the plan was to build a mega elementary school. That school – on Henbet Drive –  would house kindergarten-through-fifth grade […]

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