The 11th Annual West Metro Rotary Club Chili Cook-Off is Saturday, Oct. 31. It’s at Glenforest School. Advance tickets are $15 for 20 tickets. Tickets can be used on chili tastings, food, and games. Link to: Glenforest Chili-cook-off-information

The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department has charged a 15-year-old girl with communicating a threat to detonate a destructive device at Airport High School. About 10:25 Monday morning, a threat found written on a restroom wall prompted the evacuation of students and staff. “Our deputies, along with officers from Cayce, Springdale and South Congaree, secured the […]

Lexington School District 2 voted to use Nov. 11 and Jan. 16 as make-up days. District 2 students missed school on days beginning on Oct. 5. One of those days has already been made up, on Oct. 16, a day students were scheduled to be out of school. Instead school was in session. At the […]

The Board of Trustees of Lexington School District Two will conduct its Regular Monthly Meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, (Oct. 27) in the Board Room of the District Education Center, 715 Ninth Street, West Columbia.  The proposed Agenda (posted below)  is  also posted on the District’s website, www.lex2.org / Board of Trustees / Board […]

The Cayce-West Columbia Jaycees are offering the Hall of Horrors for Halloween. It is a haunted house experince. Hall of Horrors is the longest-running non-profit haunted attraction in South Carolina, and the longest running Jaycee haunt in the USA. Steve Cohen, of the C-WC Jaycees said attendance has been good this season. It’s at 1153 […]

Change Your Clock on Nov. 1 and Change Your Smoke Detector Battery t his week.  The City of Cayce Fire Department and Energizer are teaming up to promote fire safety awareness and to encourage the public to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks for daylight saving time. The partnership is part of […]

The official groundbreaking ceremony was held on Sept. 16, for the 36,000-sq-ft Goodwill facility on Sunset Boulevard in West Columbia. Since then, site work has been going on. The new building will be double the size of the existing the Goodwill store on Meeting Street. In addition to a retail store and a bulk sales outlet, Goodwill […]

America Elox , a fifth-grade student at Brookland-Cayce Grammar School No. 1 was chosen to receive the Lexington Medical Center Foundation’s October Living Well Student Award. It was presented Tuesday morning at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce October Breakfast meeting by Renee Dooley of the Lexington Medical Center Foundation. America is 10-years old, […]