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Joseph “Clay” Dixon received the Lexington Medical Center Foundation Live Well Award, Tuesday morning. Clay lives in Swansea and is a ninth-grade student at the Swansea High Freshman Academy. When he was younger, Clay had always had trouble speaking. He would slur his words. “Often people had trouble understanding me,” Clay said. Months of speech […]
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There were 8,897 students in Lexington School District 2 as of Sept. 1. That’s down slightly compared to district enrollment numbers for the same date in 2014-15. Last year, 10 days after the start of school, enrollment was 8,905. Lexington School District 2 released 10-day enrollment numbers last week for the 2015-16 school year. There […]
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Agenda Special Council Meeting September 21, at 6 p.m 200 N. 12th Street West Columbia, SC 29169 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM 3. INVOCATION 4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS/COMMUNICATIONS BY THE MAYOR 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 6.1. Second Reading Consideration of an Ordinance to Provide for the Approval of Certain Amendments to the Redevelopment Plan of the City […]
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“I loved my brother from another mother, but God loved him better.” Those were the words delivered in the thunderous voice of Rev. Kenneth Taylor of West Columbia’s Turner Memorial A.M.E. Church. Taylor was speaking of David L. “Scooter” Scott. Scott died Sept, 17 after a battle with cancer. Taylor eulogized Scott Sunday at a […]
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At the Chapin-vs-Brookland-Cayce football game, Friday, some BC alumni presented an authentic jersey that was worn by Bearcat players in 1949, 1950 and 1951. The jersey belonged to former player Harold “Hambone” Jones. Larry Hallman was also showing fans the jersey. Bill Moye was the head coach of BC in the period Jones and Hallman were in […]
Read More >>Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual who was killed in the one-vehicle accident at approximately 1:10 a.m. on Sunday. The accident occurred in the 500 block of Happy Town Road in Gaston. The victim is James Nathan Corbitt, 59, of Gaston. Corbitt was traveling alone and was pronounced dead at the scene from the […]
Read More >>Another person has died in a Lexington County vehicle accident this weekend. After Midnight Sunday, a crash near George Bennett Road resulted in a fatality. The accident involved a 2006 Ford Mustang that veered off the road and hit a tree. The incident was reported by the S.C. Highway Patrol. Lexington County Corner Margaret Fisher has not released the name […]
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Bulldogs put half-a-hundred on Gamecocks The 2014 football season for the University of South Carolina was a disaster compared to the three consecutive 11-win seasons before. Three total collapses by the USC defense resulted in a 7-5 season, in 2014, and a return to a place in college football Gamecock fans did not want to […]
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