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 […]

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 […]

Sandhills Elementary School Student Jesse Torres and Sandhills Physical Education Teacher Josh Nabb  received the Lexington Medical Center Foundation’s Living Well Award, Tuesday morning  at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia  Chamber Breakfast. Sandhills Elementary School is in Lexington School District 4. Sandhills  Principal Lisa Evans was on hand as the awards were presented by Smokey Davis, a LMC […]

Lou Kennedy, president and CEO, of Nephron Pharmaceuticals was introduced as a new member of the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce, at the Chamber’s Breakfast, Tuesday. Nephron has spent more than $300 million in Lexington County since breaking ground at the Saxe Gotha Industrial Park in 2012. Suzanne Riley-White, with microphone, introduced the new […]

Lexington County AmbuBus used in multi-vehicle, multi-victim collision in Batesburg-Leesville Monday night On Monday night at 7:43 p.m., Lexington County 911 dispatch received an emergency call with a report of a multi-vehicle, multi-victim accident in the 1900 Block of Willis Street, in the community of Batesburg-Leesville. Emergency personnel from Lexington County EMS and Batesburg-Leesville Fire […]

Pine Ridge Police Officer Frankie Neeley was named Law Enforcement Officer of the Month,  Tuesday morning  at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia  Chamber Breakfast. Pictured are: Pine Ridge Mayor Davis Busbee, Neeley, Pine Ridge Police Chief Billy Parker, and Chamber Board President Vaughan Dozier, of First Community Bank, sponsor of the Law Enforcement Officer of the […]

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 […]