NEWS
The new arena at Brookland-Cayce High School opens Tuesday (tonight) but there is a lot of history with the retiring of the old gym. Rev. Charles Jackson, pastor of Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, was a trailblazer in that facility. Jackson, along with Michael Thompson, were the first African-American players to don a Bearcat […]
Read More >>The much-anticipated arena at Brookland-Cayce High School is set to open for its first events. The first athletic match-ups are on Tuesday, with games against rival Airport High School. JV will play at 5 pm, Varsity Girls at 6:30, and Varsity Boys at 8. Then, on Saturday, an open house is planned for the community […]
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The last total lunar eclipse, until 2021, occurred Sunday night, and early Monday morning. It began after 10:30 p.m. The eclipse took more than three hours. And it was visible in West Columbia under perfectly clear skies, although it was a cold winter’s night, with temperatures in the 30s. It was the first supermoon of […]
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The City of West Columbia City Hall will be closed Monday, January 21, 2019, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Household garbage, yard trash, and recycling WILL NOT be collected on Monday. The Monday Sanitation Route will be collected on Tuesday, January […]
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West Columbia Police Chief Dennis Tyndall has been in law enforcement since 1984, and in that time he has seen the profession evolve. From equipment to training, the job of police officer has become more complex over the years, but Tyndall always rises to the level of professionalism required. The West Columbia Police Department serves […]
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The S.C. Highway Patrol chased a man Thursday morning and the pursuit ended in a crash at the Cayce Waffle House on Airport Boulevard. As a result Gregory Alexander Maxwell, 27, was charged with DUI, failure to stop for blue a light, and driving while uninsured. Maxwell drove past a trooper on I-26 at a […]
Read More >>Lexington County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Gaston woman Tuesday night. Stacey Lynn Chasteen, 46, is being charged with attempted murder after officers responded to a stabbing at her home. She is also charged with using a weapon during a violent crime, according to arrest warrants. “Based on the interview investigators conducted on the scene, this […]
Read More >>Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the pedestrian who was killed after being struck by a tractor-trailer early Tuesday morning around 12:10 a.m. The incident occurred in the 4200 block of U.S. 178, in Leesville. According to Fisher, Tommy Wade Goss, 47, of Lexington was in the road when he was struck by the […]
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