Brookland-Cayce High School is selling reserved-seating season tickets for the upcoming football season.   The reserved seats have backs and arm rests. Tickets are $75 each and allow entry to the five varsity home football games. Playoff games are not included in the package.  Your seat will still be reserved for playoff games; however, purchasing […]

Is there a new business coming to the Sunset Boulevard-I-26 Corridor in West Columbia? A vacant building that once housed a Quincey’s restaurant and then a Maurice’s Bar-B-Que location could be coming back to life. Recently plans were announced to put a Starbuck’s and a Salsarita’s beside the property, after the City of West Columbia annexed […]

City officials have received questions about the appearance of a new Family Dollar Store being built in West Columbia. People have asked about it,” said Brian Carter, West Columbia’s assistant city administrator. The store, under construction, is at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Hummingbird Drive. The district of West Columbia City Councilman B.J. Unthank […]

Bobby Horton formally announced his intention to run for mayor of the City of West Columbia, Tuesday. In making his announcement, Horton stressed cooperation. “You’ve got to get together and work together in unity to accomplish anything,” Horton told a crowd of supporters in a second-story conference room in the Novinger’s Quarter building on Meeting […]

The ribbon-cutting at Otaree Pointe Apartments drew a large crowd, Wednesday. “I was very pleasantly surprised at the turnout,” said Kelly Patterson, Otarre Pointe’s director of property management. Some who came, like Stephanie Boatwright and C.R. Hall, principal of Busbee Middle School, just wanted to get a look at the upper-scale apartments. Busbee is just across […]

The Board of Trustees of Lexington County School District Two will meet in special session beginning at 6:00 p.m.  on Thursday, August 6, in the Board Room of the District Education Center, 715 Ninth Street, West Columbia. District 2 voters passed a $225 million bond referendum in Nov. to pay for the building of two new […]

Four people are being treated for rabies after being exposed to a dog that tested positive for rabies. A report from the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) states the dog bit two people and exposed two others before it was euthanized. Test results later showed the dog had rabies. The dog, according to DHEC, […]