Christmas In Cayce -38th Annual Tree Lighting Thursday 6 p.m.   City of Cayce Municipal Complex 1800 12th Street Cayce This event is hosted by The Woman’s Club of Cayce and includes greetings from city officials, holiday thoughts, musical selections, and a visit from Santa. Proceeds from the sale of […]

Put any knowledgeable college football mind -looking for a head coach –  in a room for a week. Let him sift through a bucket full of names. Would he be able to find a prime candidate, then get his target? When Steve Spurrier was at Duke, a basketball school, he had […]

Solara Investments plans to build a hotel near Lexington Medical Center on Sunset Boulevard, West Columbia, according to a NAI Avant press release. According to the release: NAI Avant senior brokers Jeff Hein, SIOR and Roger Winn recently represented the seller in the sale of 3 acres of land on […]

Airport Boys win 63-52 at Strom Thurmond. Brookland-Cayce Boys win at home over Orangeburg-Wilkinson, 70-54.

More plans for an “iconic” development called Brookland were revealed Tuesday evening. Matt Mundy said, of Estates, Inc., told of a project – to be built at the corner of State and Meeting in West Columbia – that will be a visual event to traffic coming toward it. He said […]

Newly elected West Columbia Mayor Bobby Horton was elected chairman of city council, Tuesday. Councilman Tem Miles nominated Horton for the chairman position. No one else was nominated. Councilwoman Casey Hallman nominated Teddy Wingard for mayor pro-tem. Miles nominated Dale Harley. Harley was elected pro-tem in a 7-2 secret ballot. […]

The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is thanking Facebook followers, who identified two suspects in a financial fraud-related  case.  Xanthe Amanda Smith, 28, has been arrested and is facing multiple charges of financial fraud. According to arrest warrants, Smith has been charged with four counts of financial transaction card fraud, four counts […]

More people than expected showed up for the Springdale Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony last year. “I was blown away by the number of people who came out,” said Springdale Mayor Michael Bishop. He said he estimated the crowd to be 500. Bishop said he hopes to see just as much […]

The West Columbia Police Department has been helping feed the needy at Thanksgiving for 19 years. The police department, this year, began asking for food donations at the end of October. The department tries to offer meals to people in the community who are found to be in desperate need. […]

The Brookland-Cayce Bearcats open the 2015-16 Varsity Basketball season Tuesday. The Bearcats are at home for their first game. BC hosts Orangeburg-Wilkinson at 7:30 p.m.