Emergency helicopter takes flight at Prisma Laurens
Laurens County, South Carolina – Since the new health care service opened in March, a staff of experienced flight nurses, pilots and paramedics are based every day and every hour at Prisma Laurens County Hospital, ready for the time when physicians decide the best option for a patient is transport to a larger hospital. LifeNet…
Read MoreTonight’s Sip&Stroll has music, shopping and wine tasting
Laurens, South Carolina – Tickets are still available for Main Street Laurens’ annual Sip & Stroll on the Historic Courthouse Square tonight from 6 to 9 p.m., and tickets can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sip-stroll-wine-tasting-tickets-586395724397?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse. With 20 participating businesses, it’s among the largest of the downtown shopping and wine tasting events so far, said Main Street…
Read MoreVolunteers urged to ‘Team Up to Clean Up’ to celebrate Earth Day
Laurens County, South Carolina – Three weeks into April’s “Upstate Team-Up to Clean-Up” anti-litter challenge, Laurens County has already had many bags of trash cleared from its roadways with many more events remaining for volunteers to join in or launch a cleanup of their own. “Last week the American Legion Post 25 picked up 50…
Read MoreClinton approves Rate Stabilization audit, offers student scholarships
Clinton, South Carolina – At last week’s Clinton City Council’s April meeting, City Manager Tom Brooks announced the establishment of PMPA scholarship opportunities of $1,000 each for two winners of an essay contest on why it’s important for the City of Clinton to provide clean energy to its residents. The winners will be selected by…
Read MoreCity of Laurens cancels this spring’s Roots Music Festival, Looks toward summer
Laurens, South Carolina – The City of Laurens has decided to cancel this year’s Piedmont Blues and Roots Music Festival which had been planned for May 6, but City Administrator Eric Delgado says the festival will return. “It’s not going away. It’s just that logistically it’s kind of hard to pull off right now,” Delgado…
Read MoreFiling closes May 8 for District 55 trustee seat
UPDATE May 4, 2023: With the resignation May 1 of additional board members, (see current Breaking News) the election was changed to Aug. 1 for all three board members. Filing for Rawl’s position still ends at noon, Monday, May 8. Laurens County, South Carolina – With the resignation last week of a member of the District 55 Board…
Read MoreEaster options for children set for Saturday and next weekend
The cities of the Clinton and Laurens are hosting special springtime activities this month for children. Saturday, April 8, Clinton’s annual egg and candy hunt was set for Vance Park at 10 a.m. April 8, but due to forecasted rain, it will likely be moved indoors inside the lobby of the MS Bailey Municipal building…
Read MoreDHEC has free testing day April 13 for National STI Awareness Week
To raise awareness about the public health impacts of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is joining public health agencies around the nation in recognizing April 9-15 as STI Awareness Week. DHEC encourages people to get tested so they know their status when it comes to STIs, also…
Read MoreFront yard gives way to opportunity for new Laurens farmer
Laurens, South Carolina – It was the need for a bit more space to house their growing family which drew Mady and Matt Hastings to Laurens, but then a determination to try something new has resulted in Hasting’s Corner, a market farm run solely by Mady and which now serves as one of the vegetable…
Read MoreBittersweet: Easters look forward to retirement, life without their Jerseys
Laurens, South Carolina – The proverbial saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window, proved true for Glen and Marilyn Easter when the couple failed to get the farm they wanted and instead purchased the land which would become Eastglen Farm. It was 1978 and the Easters were considering moving their entire…
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