The following staff will serve at the schools listed for the 2016-17 School Year, that begins July 1. Leonard Frierson, Principal Congaree-Wood Early Childhood Center / Wood Elementary School   Dr. Cecil McClary, Principal Elaine Lundy, Assistant Principal Davis Early Childhood Center for Technology   Hope Vrana, Principal Jim LeBlanc, […]

The Board of Trustees for Lexington School District Two approved the following new Principal appointments effective July 1, 2016: Christopher Dickey has been named Principal of B-C Grammar School No. 1.   Dickey earned a B.S. from Claflin University, an M.Ed. from Fayetteville State University, and an Ed.S. from SC […]

Release from Harrison Cahill, Lexington County, PIO. Double Eagle Circle structure fire destroys home. County of Lexington emergency personnel responded to a residential structure fire near the Red Bank community Sunday evening. Just after 10 p.m., Lexington County 911 dispatched Lexington County Fire Service and EMS to the 300 block […]

Want to live in a new, hybrid home? Wade McGuinn has a neighborhood with new homes, and you don’t even have to leave West Columbia to live in one. Harvest Glen includes 54 houses. It is off of Leaphart Road. It’s a community near everything, from I-26 and Lexington Medical […]

Denea Duran is Cayce-West Columbia Chamber’s Ambassador of the Month Denea Duran is from San Francisco, CA. She moved to Columbia for college. After college she stayed in Columbia and started working as a Social Media Intern for SERVPRO of Cayce/ West Columbia and Lexington. Four years later she is […]

With the June 28, Republican Primary Runoff for Register of Deeds getting closer, Rich Bolen picked up the support from two Lexington County leaders on Saturday. Sen. Ronnie Cromer and Rep. Todd Atwater jumped on board Bolen’s campaign. “Ever since the June 14, primary, leaders across Lexington County have gotten on board […]

West Columbia City Council has scheduled a Special Council Meeting for 6 p.m. Monday (June 20.) The meetings are at City Hall, 200 N. 12th Street, West Columbia. There will be a  first reading and Public Hearings on the General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2016-2017, an ordinance for a 2% Hospitality Tax, and […]

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual that was killed in the single vehicle accident that occurred at approximately  3:10 a.m. Saturday.  Thomas M. Goad, 49, of Pelion  died, according Fisher. Goad was killed  as a result of the injuries he sustained when the 1999 Chevrolet truck he was operating […]