Brookland-Cayce High School will hold its Homecoming parade, Friday. The parade starts at 3:20 p.m. and should end before 5 p.m. Expect a few traffic traffic delays The parade starts on 7th Street and makes a left onto Indigo Avenue then to 9th Street. Then make a right on 9th and then a left onto […]

At approximately 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, bus number 4 transporting students home from Congaree/ Wood Early Childhood Center and Congaree Elementary was hit in the rear by a pick-up truck. The bus was in the process of making a routine bus stop at the home of some of our students when the accident occurred. School officials […]

Agenda Special Council Meeting September 21, at 6 p.m 200 N. 12th Street West Columbia, SC 29169 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM 3. INVOCATION 4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS/COMMUNICATIONS BY THE MAYOR 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 6.1. Second Reading Consideration of an Ordinance to Provide for the Approval of Certain Amendments to the Redevelopment Plan of the City […]

There were 8,897 students in Lexington School District 2 as of Sept. 1. That’s down slightly compared to district enrollment numbers for the same date in 2014-15. Last year, 10 days after the start of school, enrollment was 8,905. Lexington School District 2 released 10-day enrollment numbers last week for the 2015-16 school year. There […]

Joseph “Clay” Dixon received the Lexington Medical Center Foundation Live Well Award, Tuesday morning. Clay lives in Swansea and is a ninth-grade student at the Swansea High Freshman Academy. When he was younger, Clay had always had trouble speaking. He would slur his words. “Often people had trouble understanding me,” Clay said. Months of speech […]

At the Chapin-vs-Brookland-Cayce football game, Friday, some BC alumni presented an authentic jersey that was worn by Bearcat players in 1949, 1950 and 1951. The jersey belonged to former player Harold “Hambone” Jones. Larry Hallman was also showing fans the jersey. Bill Moye was the head coach of BC in the period Jones and Hallman were in […]

“I loved my brother from another mother, but God loved him better.” Those were the words delivered in the thunderous voice of Rev. Kenneth Taylor of West Columbia’s Turner Memorial A.M.E. Church. Taylor was speaking of David L. “Scooter” Scott. Scott died Sept, 17 after a battle with cancer. Taylor eulogized Scott Sunday at a […]

Bulldogs put half-a-hundred on Gamecocks The 2014 football  season for the University of South Carolina was a disaster compared to the three consecutive 11-win seasons before. Three total collapses by the USC defense resulted in a 7-5 season, in 2014, and a return to a place in college football Gamecock fans did not want to […]