NEWS

Springdale may change chicken keeping ordinance

  Are changing coming to the chicken-keeping policy in Springdale? Springdale Town Council passed first reading of an ordinance that would change the rule for chickens to be kept inside the town’s limits. The ordinance passed at council’s April 5 meeting, according to Mayor Michael Bishop, who published the information in his Mayor’s Message. In […]

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Cayce researcher seeks breast cancer survivors for USC study

A USC cancer researcher working closet to home. Dara Brown is a Cayce resident and part of a research team at the College of Nursing at the University of South Carolina. “We are conducting a research study in partnership with the American Cancer Society involving breast cancer survivors becoming more physically active,” Brown said. Brown […]

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Survey of Lexington County services to be conducted

 LEXINGTON COUNTY EMBARKS ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SURVEY The County of Lexington is embarking on a community engagement survey to give County residents a chance to voice their expectations for the services the County provides and how we can make them better. The survey, which will be conducted by a Columbia-based third-party research group to ensure […]

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Several inducted into BCHS Music Honor Society

Several students were formally inducted into the Tri-M Music Honor Society Chapter #2389 of Brookland-Cayce High School.  These students met the Tri-M criteria and accepted invitations to become members of this elite Honor Society.  The students have been carefully selected on the basis of scholarship, character, leadership, and service.  The students were nominated by the advisory music faculty […]

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No tax increase in Lexington 2 preliminary budget

There will not be a tax increase for residents in Lexington School District Two, according to preliminary projections. At a work session last Thursday, a draft budget of $75.8 million for 2016-17 was presented to District 2 Board members by Kelly Richardson, District 2’s chief financial officer. The budget includes a small state-mandated salary increase […]

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BCHS Tri-M Music Honors Seniors inducted

The following Class of 2016 Honors Seniors were recognized on April 7, during the Tri-M Music Honors Society Induction Ceremony. Pictured (L-R) Brittany Mills, Austin Sharpe, Daniel LaTorre, Zachary Jordan and Drayton Heh. Tri-M Chapter #2389 Advisor is Choral Director Wendi Humphries.  These students were nominated by their music director based on service, leadership, character, […]

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Good crowd comes out for Cayce Festival of Arts

The Cayce Festival of the Arts had a good second year. “I would call it a success,” said Aubrey Shaw, who organized the festival for the Cayce Avenues Neighborhood Association. She said she has not sifted through all the attendance data as of Sunday, but the feedback is good. The festival was Saturday at Brookland-Cayce High […]

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Fulmer Middle’s Sabrina Williams top teacher gala is April 20

Lexington 2 Teacher Sabrina Williams will find out if she is the state’s Teacher of the Year, soon. The South Carolina Teacher of the Year Celebration is scheduled for April 20, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. It is the 50th consecutive year of the event. Williams teaches seventh-and-eighth-grade social studies and humanities at Fulmer […]

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