It was supposed to be over at noon, but the last box of chicken was not placed into a car until after 6 p.m. “We just couldn’t stop it,” said Chuck Underhill of House of Raeford. People waiting that long needed it.” House of Raeford’s Community Chicken Sale 2.0 drew long lines of vehicles from […]

Twenty-one Lexington Two middle school students have been named South Carolina Junior Scholars. Among Lexington Two’s Junior Scholars are Cassidy Callahan, Jamie Martin, Brenden McMillan, Trevor O’Toole, Kyra Pichardo, Hope Riley, Kennedy Sanchez, and Kaylee Thornton, all of Busbee Creative Arts Academy; Heidi Daniel,  Ella Harman, Savanna Newman, Carter Shealy, Caleb Straser, and Charles Underhill, […]

Cars are in a line that stretches to the East Point Academy campus on Sunset Boulevard in West Columbia. On Meeting Street, the line is from State Street to Ninth Street. From the east, vehicles are backed up over the Gervais Street Bridge. The response is massive to the second House of Raeford’s Community Chicken […]

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Monday he would like to get the state’s economy reopened soon. McMaster delivered his comments at his coronavirus press conference. The governor ordered the state’s schools to close on March 16, as a way to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Most businesses – those deemed non essenaial – […]

Hunger does not take a spring break. That’s why last week, West Columbia Police Officers India Taylor, Robin Rivers, and Eugene Hammill spent the three days preparing and delivering 30 Spring Break Food boxes. The food was taken to families in need throughout West Columbia. “Sometimes the best meals the kids get is at school,” […]

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an extension of the current state of emergency, Sunday. There was a state of emergency in effect in South Carolina until April 15. The new order will keep it in place until April 27. All previous orders will continue to remain active until the emergency state comes to an […]

The storm that hot West Columbia early Monday morning left trees down and lots of water. A tree fell across Morningside Drive and branches were strewn on Victoria Street, just off Sunset Boulevard. Half of Arehart Street, at the Sunset Boulevard intersection, was flooded.

A fierce storm blew through Lexington County, West Columbia, Cayce and Springdale, early Monday morning. High winds, heavy rains, and severe thunderstorms hit the area around 530 a.m. By 6:30 a.m. the worst had blown over. At 6:37 a.m., the National Weather Service in Columbia had canceled the tornado watch for Lexington County, but others […]