West Columbia’s Gray Collegiate Academy has been ranked nationally (USA Today)  in the top 25 of high school basketball. As a powerhouse, War Eagle is expected to take on all comers. And the team has done that. “We have played in Chicago, D.C and Delaware,” said Dion Bethea, Gray’s head basketball coach. And one of […]

Springdale Police Department’s 2016 National Night Out event received national recognition from the National Association of Town Watch. The Springdale Police Department’s 2016 National Night Out event has received recognition from the National Association of Town Watch. The event ranked in at eighth in the nation for areas with a population of less than 5,000. […]

If you played youth baseball in West Columbia in the 1960s, you probably know Donnie Sox. Sox coached baseball, ages 10-to-12, for 18 years. He started in the 1950s and coached into the 1970s. The affiliation varied from Little League and Dixie Youth to Little Boys Baseball. It was an age before X-Box, daily cartoons […]

For almost all of three quarters it looked like Brookland-Cayce was headed to the State Championship Game. But a Touchdown by Dillon with 11:51 left in the fourth quarter put the Wildcats up to stay. Dillon defeated BC 34-21 in the 3A Lower State Championship game Friday night. The game started with a fumble by […]

The Columbia County (Ga.)  Sheriff’s Office has activated a Levi’s Call, Georgia’s Amber Alert System, for a man wanted for Aggravated Child Molestation among other charges. The sheriff’s office posted a wanted flier on the Facebook page for Jason Arlis Johnson. He is believed to be in the company of a 15-year-old girl who has […]

Mr. Earle Williams, age 101, died Thursday afternoon. “He passed away this afternoon,” said his nephew Bill Mooneyhan. “He had a full life and he was a happy man.” Mooneyhand said funeral arrangements have not been finalized, but the family hopes to have a service on Sunday. An announcement with complete funeral plans is expected Friday. […]

The Cayce-West Columbia Holiday Parade of Lights is Saturday. The night-time parade begins at 5:30 p.m. at the corner of 12th and Meeting Street in West Columbia. It proceeds, with more than 100 entries, down 12th Street into Cayce and ends at the City of Cayce’s Municipal Complex. “There was more intrest in the parade than […]

Obituary for Earle Williams Earle Williams entered into eternal rest and peace and into the loving arms of Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior, on Thursday, December 8th. He is once again with his true beloved, Mary Elaine Price Williams, to whom he was married for 63 years. Earle was born in West Columbia on […]