A candlelight vigil has been scheduled for the Kelly Family. The Kelly Family lost four members to a fire, early Tuesday morning. The vigil is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Brookland-Cayce High School flag pole. A prayer session will be held for the family. One of the Kelly Family children, who survived, is a […]

Alaisha Gardner,  a senior at Airport High School and Colleen Guseman, a junior at Brookland-Cayce High School have been selected as members of the S.C. Music Educators Association 2017 All-State Choir. The students are from Lexington School District 2 and they are members of their school’s Advanced Choir.  Lexington District 2 High School Choral Directors are […]

Carolina Water Service has been fined $78,940 for dumping sewage into the Lower Saluda River. Carolina Water Service does business in Lexington County. The amount of the fine was revealed Monday in an agenda for a board meeting of the the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. The fine will have to be approved […]

West Columbia City Council will hold its Regular Council Meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday. at City Hall, 200 N. 12th Street West Columbia. Agenda: Presentation of Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) – Mr. Bill Hancock, C.P.A., The Brittingham Group REQUESTS FOR APPEARANCES/CITIZEN COMMENT PERIOD Mr. John Banks of the West Metro Visitor […]

The regular Cayce City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Below is a copy of the agenda. Click on images below to enlarge and read. 

The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating a house fire that occurred Saturday. Maria Addy-Starino, 64 died in the fire on Dickert Drive.   Link to initial story on fire Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said it is standard procedure to turn any fatal fire over to SLED for investigation. A cause of the fire […]

Seven people were displaced after fires broke out in two separate residences in West Columbia on Tuesday afternoon. County of Lexington emergency personnel responded to a residential structure fire call in the 4000 block of Florentine Road just before 1:30 p.m. Upon arrival, Lexington County firefighters observed heavy smoke and flames coming from two structures […]

Members of the Brookland-Cayce Chorus participated in the annual University of South Carolina Honor Choir under the direction of Dr. Larry Wyatt. The students performed Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C with orchestra. The perforamnce was on Feb. 25, in Johnson Hall in the  Darla Moore International School of Business located on the USC campus. Pictured […]