NEWS

McGuinn Hybrid Homes part of West Columbia growth

Want to live in a new, hybrid home? Wade McGuinn has a neighborhood with new homes, and you don’t even have to leave West Columbia to live in one. Harvest Glen includes 54 houses. It is off of Leaphart Road. It’s a community near everything, from I-26 and Lexington Medical Center to I-20 and downtown […]

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Total loss to fire at Double Eagle Circle in Red Bank

Release from Harrison Cahill, Lexington County, PIO. Double Eagle Circle structure fire destroys home. County of Lexington emergency personnel responded to a residential structure fire near the Red Bank community Sunday evening. Just after 10 p.m., Lexington County 911 dispatched Lexington County Fire Service and EMS to the 300 block of Double Eagle Circle in […]

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BC Grammar, Pine Ridge Middle to get new principals

The Board of Trustees for Lexington School District Two approved the following new Principal appointments effective July 1, 2016: Christopher Dickey has been named Principal of B-C Grammar School No. 1.   Dickey earned a B.S. from Claflin University, an M.Ed. from Fayetteville State University, and an Ed.S. from SC State University. David Basile has […]

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Lexington 2 releases administrative reassignment list

The following staff will serve at the schools listed for the 2016-17 School Year, that begins July 1. Leonard Frierson, Principal Congaree-Wood Early Childhood Center / Wood Elementary School   Dr. Cecil McClary, Principal Elaine Lundy, Assistant Principal Davis Early Childhood Center for Technology   Hope Vrana, Principal Jim LeBlanc, Assistant Principal Springdale Elementary School […]

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Woman arrested after leaving kids in car

LCSD Release Lexington County deputies have charged a woman with unlawful conduct toward a child after she left two children inside a car while she went into a store. “Based on our investigation and witness statements, Maria Rivas-Velazques left a 5-year-old girl and a 23-month-old boy in her running car for about 12 minutes,” Lexington […]

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Coroner identifies early-morning fatal accident victim

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual that was killed in the single vehicle accident that occurred at approximately  3:10 a.m. Saturday.  Thomas M. Goad, 49, of Pelion  died, according Fisher. Goad was killed  as a result of the injuries he sustained when the 1999 Chevrolet truck he was operating was traveling eastbound and left […]

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Motorcycle accident results in fatality

A 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle ran off the right side of the road and hit a culvert, killing the rider.   The name of the victim has not yet been released by the Lexington County Coroner.

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West Columbia meets Monday to vote on new water-sewer rate

West Columbia City Council has scheduled a Special Council Meeting for 6 p.m. Monday (June 20.) The meetings are at City Hall, 200 N. 12th Street, West Columbia. There will be a  first reading and Public Hearings on the General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2016-2017, an ordinance for a 2% Hospitality Tax, and an ordinance that will set […]

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