Bill Mooneyhan Sr, owner of Mooneyhan’s Auto Service in West Columbia, received the prestigious Livingston Award from the Cayce- West Columbia Lions Club. The Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce awarded Mooneyhan with the Citizen of the Year Award, last week. “I am Proud to be part of Both of these groups,” said Mooneyhan,  “They do […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]