NEWS

Transformer blown at Northside Middle School, students dismissed

A little after 9 this morning, power at Northside Middle School in West Columbia was disrupted due to a blown transformer. Parents were lined up in front of the school Monday morning to pick up children. Parents were notified that they may pick up their students.  In the interest of safety, provisions have been made for students that […]

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Lexington 2 Schools open Monday

Lexington 2 schools will be open Monday and operate on a normal schedule.  From Jim Hinton of Lexington School District 2: Lexington School District Two Schools will operate on a normal schedule Monday, October 10, 2016. Lexington District Two asks all staff and students to report to school Monday at their regular times.  

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City of Cayce offices will be operating on a normal schedule, Monday

City of Cayce Offices will be Open and operating at normal hours starting Monday morning. City trash and recyclables will be picked up according to normal hours this week. Please note that our City staff has been working around the clock and will pick up debris as quickly as possible! City Parks will reopen tomorrow; […]

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20,000 without power in Lexington County

There were 10,010 homes in Lexington County with no power around 7 a.m. Saturday, according to SCE&G. By 8:45 a.m. there were close to 20,000 without power in Lexington County. The company anticipated 100,000 outages from Hurricane Matthew. The category 2 hurricane brushed the coast near Hilton Head overnight.

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South Carolina and Georgia will play on Sunday

South Carolina and Georgia will play on Sunday – instead of Saturday- at Williams-Brice Stadium. The day change was announced Thursday night. Game time and TV information has not been announced. The game is being changed because of Hurricane Matthew heading toward the state. The latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center shows Matthew making […]

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SCDOT to end I-26 lane reversal Friday 

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), in conjunction with our partners at DPS, SLED, DNR, and National Guard, plans to remove the lane reversal on I-26 tomorrow morning, Friday, October 7, 2016. The process for returning I-26 to normal operations will begin by law enforcement stopping traffic from entering the reversed lanes at I-526 […]

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Airport, Brookland-Cayce football games postponed until Nov. 4

Brookland-Cayce was scheduled for a big showdown at home with Gilbert, and Airport would be hosting North Augusta. But those high school football games won’t happen Friday. There have been postponed until Nov. 4, thanks to Hurricane Matthew. The South Carolina High School League announced this week that the high school football season will be […]

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Emergency equipment staged in Cayce as storm nears

With Hurricane Matthew moving up the East Coast, trucks full of recovery equipment are being staged in Cayce. These four loads of equipment were sitting at a site on Charleston Highway in Cayce Thursday afternoon, in preparation to be moved to the storm site when needed. The hurricane is expected to reach South Carolina on […]

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