Pineview Dixie Youth Baseball Minors are SC Champions, going to World Series
The Pineview Dixie Youth Baseball Minors team won the South Carolina DYB tournament in Anderson, Thursday. Pineview is based in West Columbia. With the win, the team will go on to represent the state of South Carolina in the DYB World Series Tournament in Ruston, LA Aug. 2- Aug. 8.
Read More >>Renovated flex space coming to West Columbia’s Triangle City
Renovation is underway on 1205 D Avenue in Triangle City in West Columbia to create a new flex space. The former medical office building is being redeveloped by Joe E. Taylor Jr., the former S.C. secretary of commerce. “This new investment will be an upgrade to this commercial area of […]
Read More >>New traffic pattern installed on Sunset Blvd. at I-20 Ramp
As part of the Corley Mill at Sunset Blvd. Gateway Improvements, effective Friday morning at 5 a.m., drivers exiting the I-20 westbound ramp (Exit 61) who wish to access Ginny Lane must now make a right turn at the traffic signal. The Lexington Police Department announced the change. Line striping […]
Read More >>Woman and teen charged in connection to shooting
Lexington County deputies have charged a Lexington woman and a minor in connection with a shooting Wednesday night in Gilbert. Brandi Ann Strawderman, 20, is charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to arrest warrants. The minor is charged with attempted murder and […]
Read More >>Primal Gourmet open, Terra re-opens, Bricks and Stone coming, and enjoy Chayz music and Space Week, too in West Columbia summer
Your opportunities to go out for fun on these warm West Columbia summer nights have increased. You can catch lunch, too. Primal Gourmet opened its doors Monday in the former McGee Auction building at 725 Meeting St. Primal Gourmet is a lunch and dinner spot right now, but that is […]
Read More >>West Columbia offers weekend shuttle service to Riverwalk, from City Hall
The City of West Columbia is running a weekend shuttle service. It runs every 15 minutes from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday from West Columbia City Hall- 200 N. 12th St- to the Riverwalk Amphitheater. Pick up is in the City Hall parking lot. The service […]
Read More >>Lexington 2 part of program to allow online school to prevent make-up days
Lexington Two has been approved to use eLearning days for school make-up days, one of 10 additional districts approved to participate in the 2019-20 school year, the Education Oversight Committee announced this month. eLearning allows districts to continue lessons at home when classes on regularly scheduled school days are cancelled, […]
Read More >>Lexington 2’s Paola Adams named a National Parent Educator of the Year
A Lexington Two parent educator who works with the district’s STAR Family Partnership is the winner of a national award. Paola Adams has been named a National Parent Educator of the Year by Parents as Teachers, an organization whose programs work with parents as the first and most influential teachers […]
Read More >>Fulmer Middle School to reopen, Wood Elementary name change, New Bridge moved, school building update
From Dawn Kujawa, Lexington Two Communications Director The 2019-20 school year will bring changes for some Lexington Two schools. Among them: Fulmer Middle: Fulmer will be moving back to its newly renovated campus at 1614 Walterboro St., West Columbia, for the start of the new school year. Renovations added a […]
Read More >>West Columbia’s Hunter Helms, of Gray Collegiate, commits to play college football at Holy Cross
West Columbia’s Hunter Helms, from Gray Collegiate Academy committed, Tuesday, to play college football at Holy Cross. Helms, a quarterback, will play his senior year at Gray in 2019. He will play in 2020 at Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. It’s an FCS school. Helms said he took an official […]
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