The boys basketball team of West Columbia’s Gray Collegiate Academy remains undefeated. Gray won the Lower Richland Tip-Off Classic in November.  In the tournament, Gray defeated Fort Mill, Lower Richland and Westwood to take home the title. This week Gray knocked off another 4A school. The War Eagles defeated  Northwestern High School of Rock Hill […]

Put any knowledgeable college football mind -looking for a head coach –  in a room for a week. Let him sift through a bucket full of names. Would he be able to find a prime candidate, then get his target? When Steve Spurrier was at Duke, a basketball school, he had one losing season. Then he […]

Newly elected West Columbia Mayor Bobby Horton was elected chairman of city council, Tuesday. Councilman Tem Miles nominated Horton for the chairman position. No one else was nominated. Councilwoman Casey Hallman nominated Teddy Wingard for mayor pro-tem. Miles nominated Dale Harley. Harley was elected pro-tem in a 7-2 secret ballot. Controversy surrounded the council chairman […]

More plans for an “iconic” development called Brookland were revealed Tuesday evening. Matt Mundy said, of Estates, Inc., told of a project – to be built at the corner of State and Meeting in West Columbia – that will be a visual event to traffic coming toward it. He said the plan is to make […]

Airport Boys win 63-52 at Strom Thurmond. Brookland-Cayce Boys win at home over Orangeburg-Wilkinson, 70-54.

Solara Investments plans to build a hotel near Lexington Medical Center on Sunset Boulevard, West Columbia, according to a NAI Avant press release. According to the release: NAI Avant senior brokers Jeff Hein, SIOR and Roger Winn recently represented the seller in the sale of 3 acres of land on a prime development site, located […]

The Brookland-Cayce Bearcats open the 2015-16 Varsity Basketball season Tuesday. The Bearcats are at home for their first game. BC hosts Orangeburg-Wilkinson at 7:30 p.m.

The West Columbia Police Department has been helping feed the needy at Thanksgiving for 19 years. The police department, this year, began asking for food donations at the end of October. The department tries to offer meals to people in the community who are found to be in desperate need. Sometimes the best meal a […]