NEWS
Beginning at 8 a.m., Sunday, Dominion Energy installed ropes on the new electricity transmission structures. The structures are at North Lake Drive (SC-6) and Columbia Avenue (US-378.) Dominion is using a helicopter to fly ropes across the road and a series of eight roads were closed. The work was expected to continue through the day. […]
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Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual who died as a result of a stabbing that occurred in the 300 block of Wharfsdale Road in the Town of Irmo shortly after 9 p.m., Saturday. According to Fisher, Mr. Andrew Wardlaw Wier, 33, of Columbia was pronounced dead at the scene due to being […]
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From Dawn Kujawa – Lexington 2 Communications – Tanner Staton, a rising senior athlete at Brookland-Cayce High School, has been selected as one of 70 nominee finalists statewide for the Bridge Builder Excellence Award for the SC Football Hall of Fame. Staton is a three-year starter and quarterback with the Brookland-Cayce varsity football team. He […]
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SC Department of Transportation crews were on the bridge over Congaree Creek in Cayce, Thursday. Workers were repairing potholes on the I-77 bridge over Congaree Creek in Lexington County. The southbound lane was closed to remove damaged portions of the concrete and repair the concrete bridge decks with a smooth surface. The crews worked to […]
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Obituary of Peggy Yvonne SummersPeggy Yvonne Summers, 73, of West Columbia, SC, passed away Saturday, March 12, 2022. Peggy was born to Johnny and Ivy Lorene Rimer on July 16, 1948, in Blythewood, SC. Peggy was preceded in death by her parents; her beloved husband, David Summers; and six of her seven siblings: Grace Leona […]
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Lexington’s Meera Bhonslé was crowned Miss South Carolina USA 2022 in North Charleston last week. She will now prepare to represent South Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. Meera has held the title of Miss Upstate USA 2022 and Miss Gamecock 2018. She is a University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications […]
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Airport High School brought home top honors from the weekend’s annual state convention of the South Carolina Association of Student Councils. Airport – which hosted this year’s event at the school – was recognized as a Gold Council of Excellence for the sixth consecutive year. In addition, Davis Nix, a senior at Airport and student […]
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Lou Kennedy, Nephron Pharmaceuticals CEO, in a Facebook video is asking her Facebook followers to join her to partner with former SC Gov. David Beasley and the World Food Programme to deliver relief to families in war-torn Ukraine. A donation of $75 can provide a box of food that lasts one month. Click here for […]
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