The young men pictured attended the first USC Gentlemen’s Guide to Singing Choral Clinic Saturday, Sept.24, at the University of South Carolina School of Music. These five young men joined voices with the USC Men’s Choir and other high school students from across the state. They were under the direction […]

Carol Wyatt Yarborough has the ability to keep calm when things are getting out of hand. “I can keep my head straight in a crisis,” Yarborough said. She described the commotion surrounding a car accident when she was in college. “A child on a bicycle was hit by a car,” […]

The Cayce Department of Public Safety needs your help identifying a burglary suspect. The photographs attached show a suspect who is being sought for questioning in connection with a burglary that occurred at 1929 Bluff Road in Cayce on September 28. This suspect stole a teal colored back pack which […]

The water tower on US 321, or Charleston Highway, in Cayce does not look so old and rusty anymore. It’s now the largest hand-painted mural in the state of South Carolina. Public Works of the HeART, under the oversight of Will Bryan, raised funds to paint the water tower. It […]

West Columbia’s City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday, 6 p.m. at City Hall, 200 12 St., West Columbia. Agenda is left. Click to enlarge.  

‘s Night Out Event is on Tuesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 2915 Platt Springs Rd. It will include Emeralds Artistry Face Painting #EmeraldsArtistry, Bounce Houses from Jumperee, Creative Balloon Art from Brad the Balloon Man & Magic Patti, Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM), Heroes in Blue, […]

Attendance was good said John Banks, consultant for the Congaree Bluegrass Festival. Banks, who is also the Tourism Director at the Greater Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce, said estimate are that more than 3,500 visited the festival. It was held at the spacious Historic Columbia Speedway for the first time this […]

Whiskey Tango Revue and the Kenny George Band played the Rhythm on the River Concert, Sunday. The weather was great and the crowd had lots to eat and drink. It was a year after the October flood of 2015. Stolen Hearts with Chris Crompton plays next Sunday. beginning at 2 p.m. at the […]

Rhythm on the River is Sunday at 2 p.m. featuring Whiskey Tango Revue and the Kenny George Band. Music begins at 2 begin, until 5 p.m. It’s at the West Columbia Amphitheater, on Alexander Street, where it meets Meeting Street.

Clogging, artists, military displays, food and music are abundant at the Historic Columbia Speedway. It’s the Congaree Bluegrass Festival. It started at 11 a.m. on Saturday and goes on until 5 p.m.  Admission is only $10 for adults and children 12 and under free.  Sunday’s Gospel show will kick-off 1 p.m. […]