The first season has come to an end for Columbia’s Famously Hot, Surprising Cool new outdoor ice skating rink, Main Street Ice. Crews began dismantling the ice skating rink this morning and will be clearing Boyd Plaza over the next few days.  

City Parks and Recreation officials are reporting that just over fourteen hundred skaters visited the rink over the last two weeks, bringing the attendance total for the entire season to over fifteen thousand.

Otto Hage, PHS Band Director (left) and Clark Cooper, PHS Principal (right) congratulate Zachary O’Neill, Pelion High School band student, who will compete in the South Carolina Band Director’s Association’s Young Artist Competition on February 7, 2013, in Charleston, S.C.

The association picked O’Neill for the competition along with 19 other band students from across the state.

Lexington County School District One Superintendent Karen Woodward and White Knoll High Assistant Volleyball Coach Erica Gambrell congratulate Solia Niutupuivaha for being selected to play in the All-Star Volleyball Tournament.

The South Carolina Coaches Association for Women’s Sports selected Niutupuivaha for the tournament where she played on the 3A/4A All-Star South team.