Gamecock football coach fights back at critics! After South Carolina lost double-digit leads, and the game, in the fourth quarter three times in 2014, everyone wanted answers. At times Gamecock Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier talked about coaching deficiencies. At other times he blamed himself, bad breaks, or the on-field performance-level. But after eight months […]

Members of the Technology Student Association (TSA) of Airport High and Fulmer Middle Schools represented Lexington School District Two well at the annual  National TSA Conference in Dallas, Texas June 28-July 2. Mrs. Terri Southern, math teacher and sponsor of Airport’s TSA, accompanied the TSA students to Dallas. At the conference, Mrs. Southern was named the 2015 […]

The Congaree Bluegrass Festival is expanding. Changes for the festival were announced last week at the Cayce City Council Meeting. The festival is scheduled for Oct. 3-4. It will be two days instead of one and it will be held at the Historic Columbia Speedway off of Charleston Highway, in Cayce. There will be wine […]

Former South Congaree Police Chief Jason Amodio was sentenced to eight months home confinement, Wednesday and four years of probation. Amodio admitted to lying to a federal grand jury. “I am very sorry for what I have done,” Amodio said. “I have let down the community I’ve served.” The sentence was part of an agreement […]

Lexington County is a must,” if you are going to compete in the GOP Presidential Primary. That’s what State Rep. Rick Quinn of Lexington said, at an event, Wednesday for Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) Walker packed Hudson’s Smokehouse restaurant, and played to an exuberant crowd of hundreds. Hudson’s is on Sunset Boulevard in Lexington. State […]

City of Cayce employee Michael Paulchel was given the Whole Sole Award at Cayce City Council Meeting, July 6. Paulchel was awarded  for going above and beyond his obligated duty. He helped eliminate bad odors coming from a place near the city’s sewer department at the Six-Mile Creek pump station. Paulchel handmade three carbon filters for […]

Former South Congaree police chief Jason Amodio is scheduled to be sentenced at 10 a.m. Wednesday, before U.S. Judge Joseph Anderson. The procedure will be at the federal courthouse in Columbia. Amodio pleaded guilty in March to perjury. That is a felony, but Amodio could avoid a prison sentence if government prosecutors’ requests are heeded. […]