From the office of the 11th circuit solicitor:  A Lexington County couple has been sentenced to prison following the death of their 10 week old infant daughter. Jordan Hodson, age 36, and Sara Elizabeth Hodson, age 35, were given a stern prison sentence for committing fatal child neglect which led to the infant’s death on […]

This year there is a New Festival Location On the grounds of Cayce’s Historic Brookland-Cayce High School, 1300 State Street, Cayce. The Cayce Festival of the Arts features Fine Artists/Photographers, Fine Crafters, and Authors/Writers. It is presented by The Cayce Avenues Association. Last year’s event was a huge success. This year’s event is shaping up […]

The City of West Columbia has issued a closing schedule for the Easter holiday. City Hall will be closed, Friday, March 25. Regular hours will resume Monday, March 28.

Cayce’s Walmart Neighborhood Grocery could be open by end of June Cayce City Manager Rebecca Vance said the Walmart Neighborhood Grocery being built on Knox-Abbott Drive at Charleston Highway in Cayce, could be completed by the end of June. Vance addressed the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, Tuesday. The meeting was held at […]

Ground was broken for Cayce’s Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, Wednesday morning.    SpringBridge Development, LLC is building the hotel, with a tentative open date of fourth quarter, 2016. The proposed Courtyard by Marriott will join a new corporate development hub in SCANA’s Otarre Pointe Development located at the I-77/I-26 intersection. The property will be positioned not […]

The City of West Columbia was charged close to $9 million for upgrades to Columbia’s sewer treatment plant. To help pay for that expenditure, a study by American Engineering Consultants (AEC) in Cayce found that a 16 percent across-the-board increase in water and sewer fees is needed. Currently West Columbia has the lowest water/sewer fees […]

The October flood of 2015 will cost the City of West Columbia at least $1.39 million. And Riverwalk will not be fully repaired until 2017. The flood waters ripped the pedestrian walkway under the Gervais Street Bridge in two and damaged the trellis at the Bridgepoint Condominiums, on Riverwalk. Mark Waller, the city’s director of […]

Deandre Williams and Ashley McDonald were recognized at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia  Chamber Breakfast Tuesday as Student and Teacher of the Month. Both are from Sandhills Elementary School in Lexington School District 4. Sandhills Principal Lisa Evans presented the award. McDonald teaches Montessori classes. Williams is one of her students.