Chloe S. Barlow

3 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Andy Tsubasa Field |Chloe S. Barlow

IRMO — Mike Ward is Irmo's newest councilmember, winning a June 3 special election with 57.3 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results announced June 3. Ward, 40, defeated George Frazier, who received 28.6 percent of the vote, and Ed Greco, who took 14.1 percent, with 83 percent of Richland County and 67 percent of Lexington County precincts reporting.

1 month ago | postandcourier.com | Chloe S. Barlow |April Santana

CAYCE — For the past year, this Midlands city of 13,600 residents has been rife with turnover at some of its most critical government positions. The Cayce Police Department has seen the most instability. When Chief Chris Cowan left last July after almost three years on the job, the city quickly found a replacement in Herbert Blake. “I look forward to him leading our police department and serving the citizens of Cayce,” then-interim City Manager Jim Crosland said in a September statement.

2 months ago | postandcourier.com | Chloe S. Barlow |April Santana

CHESTER — The silence is what sticks out to Megan Probert about the crash. Probert, a 27-year-old special education teacher at Pine Ridge Middle School in West Columbia, wasn’t supposed to be on the school bus that day. She was asked less than 24 hours earlier to fill in for another teacher. The eight graders she was accompanying were calm as they rode home after a field trip to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, in Charlotte, N.C., that early afternoon of April 17.