The 9th annual Reggaetronic Lake Murray Music Festival is returning to Spence Island for some fun in the sun on Lake Murray on 4 June 2022 accessible by boat only. The lineup this year includes Henry Fong from Jupiter, FL, Brian Dawe who was featured on VH1’s Master of theContinue Reading
Conservative Candidate for State House Proposes Action to Safeguard SC Ballots Rebecca Blackburn Hines, Republican candidate for South Carolina House District 85, announced her new proposal to finally secure Palmetto State elections. She is also proposing voter registration by political party. “South Carolinians are demanding that their elections be bothContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five announced its new Teacher of the Year and Support Employee of the Year during a May 2 ceremony. Elisa Westfall, an English teacher at CrossRoads Intermediate School, was named School District Five’s 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year during the district’s Employee Recognition Program. Katlyn Krumrey, aContinue Reading
The Irmo Police Department is currently looking for assistance in locating Karl Hess. Mr. Hess suffers from dementia and walked away from Harbison Shores assisted living facility during the early morning hours of May 4th, 2022. Mr. Hess is 73 years old and has issues with speaking because of hisContinue Reading
I am reaching out in concern of materials being allowed in our public school libraries. We have found several books with in the district with out even really digging that are obscene and pornographic. I have no doubt there are many others. A group of parents, including myself, read fromContinue Reading
By Mike DuBose Many of you recall the 1950’s as “The Good Old Days” described by historians as the most remarkable era in American history filled with members of the “Greatest Generation!” Now, pause and think back if you lived during that period. The younger crowd will find it hardContinue Reading
Fifteen students from Dutch Fork High School were recently named the winners of the Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity of the University of South Carolina Rube Goldberg Invention Competition. The contest was developed from the creative cartoons of William Heath Robinson and Pulitzer Prize winning Ruben Lucious Goldberg. Both ofContinue Reading
Kimberly Case is a visual artist focusing on fine art portrait photography. In 2018, her portrait creation Girl with Sword won Best of Show in the Professional Fine Art category of the SC State Fair, notably being the first and only photograph to ever take that prize in the 150+Continue Reading
By Terry Ward It was a beautiful evening on the Congaree River for the return of Rhythm on the River. A full Riverwalk Amphitheater lost themselves in the Carolina Beach Music, Saturday, presented by The Sensational Epics. There have been very few of the Rhythm on the River concerts sinceContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five received the keys to a new electric school bus on Friday. School District Five is one of four districts in the state to receive the state-of-the-art, Proterra equipped, Thomas Built bus. The district was selected to receive the bus after a student entered the “Kids Ride Clean” writingContinue Reading
Harbison West Elementary School hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate new upgrades to the school playgrounds. Both the kindergarten and elementary playground received new sun canopies and new play equipment was installed for the kindergarten recess area. “Recess is an important part of the school day where kids can interactContinue Reading