The South Carolina Highway Patrol is reporting a fatal accident that occurred near Pelion Thursday evening. Lance Cpl. Matt Southern of the SCHP said a 2012 Tractor Trailer traveling west on US 178 close to Fairview and Water Tank roads collided with a Ford SUV travelling east. The driver in the Ford SUV was killed. […]

Students return to class Thursday (Aug. 18.) While they were gone some things changed in Lexington School District 2 over the summer. Work continued on the new elementary school, that is under construction on the 12th Street Extension in Cayce. It’s beside Busbee Creative Arts Academy. It is scheduled to open in fall 2017. Projects […]

The 2016-17 School Year opens for Lexington School District 2, Thursday. Almost 9,000 students will begin classes at the district’s 16 schools in Cayce, West Columbia Pine Ridge and South Congaree. Students range in age from 3K to adult education. One half of the children in the district ride the bus to school. With breakfast, […]

The 2016-17 School Year opens for Lexington School District 2, Thursday. Almost 9,000 students will begin classes at the district’s 16 schools in Cayce, West Columbia Pine Ridge and South Congaree. In addition to busses carrying thousands of children to school- parents who drop-off and pick-up will be on the road too after the summer […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the person who was found dead in West Columbia at approximately 7:30 a.m.  on Thursday. The name of the person found dead is Michael Andy McMillan, 30,  of Columbia. Double Branch Road is between Sunset Boulevard and Greenwood Road. His body was found in the 1600 block of […]

DHL delivered 69 bags of school supplies to Lexington District Two’s District Office Tuesday, for Congaree Elementary, Congaree-Wood Early Childhood Center and Herbert A. Wood Elementary. The supplies were all donated by employees at the DHL facility located at 3245 Platt Springs Rd, West Columbia.

A new, but temporary, road is being dug in parts of West Columbia. The addition is part of SCE&G’s effort to rebuild its lines to transmit power from the nuclear reactors being constructed at its station in Fairfield County. Part of the road is being constructed behind Providence Presbyterian Church, off of Sunset Boulevard in […]