Area Breaking News
District 55 adds remaining schools to week’s closures
• We will update this story as schedule changes are announced. The last of District 55 schools were switched to eLearning for the remainder of this week, parents learned early afternoon Thursday in a mass-mailing from Supt. Ameca Thomas. The decision gives district the chance to disinfect all schools during the long weekend, Thomas said,…
Read MoreClemson retires Laurens great Floyd’s No. 32 jersey
Basketball is getting a little smaller in Chrissy Floyd’s rearview mirror these days, but she made a familiar trek back to Clemson’s Littlejohn Colliseum Sunday for the latest of a string of post-career honors and accolades for a career well-played. Floyd’s No. 32 jersey was retired during a ceremony at Clemson’s 80-74 loss to Boston…
Read MoreShamrock Technologies to occupy Connexial Center
The first occupant of Laurens County’s Connexial Center industrial park on I-385 in Gray Court is getting its first occupant. Shamrock Technologies is making a $19.4 million investment in moving part of its international operation to a spec building at Connexial Center. The Laurens County Council was expected to approve third and final reading of…
Read MoreBlue Hose head coach sees PC from new view
Steve Englehart has been here before. He saw Presbyterian College’s Bailey Memorial Stadium from the visitor’s sideline in 2016 in a less-than-memorable 24-7 Blue Hose loss to Florida Tech. But Englehart, who had started the Florida Tech program from scratch in 2013, never forgot his initial visit to Clinton and the PC campus. “I’m excited…
Read MoreAfter nine years of fundraising, Laurens County Museum opens to public
Laurens, South Carolina – A tree seems to grow from the floor and into the rafters of the Witherspoon Building, the newly-completed permanent home of the Laurens County Museum which welcomed hundreds of guests last weekend with a fundraising gala Friday and a grand opening on Sunday, Jan. 2. The “tree room” is an impressive…
Read MoreState legislators look to tax reform, redistricting
Laurens County, South Carolina – Members of the South Carolina House and Senate will reconvene Tuesday, Jan. 11, and S.C. District 9 Senator Danny Verdin said of all the issues the legislators are facing, none are as urgent as U.S. Congressional redistricting, which faces a swift timetable. “Redistricting the seven congressional districts is the first…
Read MoreClinton City Council approves annexation resolution, denies waiver
Clinton, South Carolina – At the request of developer Laurens County Investments LLC, Clinton City Council agreed Monday night to pass a resolution to annex two parcels of property in the event they are sold to the investment group. The properties, identified as Laurens County Tax Map numbers 658-00-00-062 and 658-00-00-080 are near Highway 76…
Read MoreArrest made, another suspect wanted in shooting
Laurens Police are still seeking a suspect involved in a shooting Thursday on Sullivan Street in Laurens that has left one man hospitalized. Tykevious Fadrell Kennedy, 18, was arrested soon after the shooting incident and charged with attempted murder, simple larceny, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and discharging a…
Read MorePC search ends with Englehart as next head coach
Presbyterian College hired its second head football coach in less than a year Monday with the announcement that former Florida Tech coach Steve Englehart will take over the helm of the Blue Hose. Englehart, who built the NCAA Division II program at Florida Tech up from nothing, becomes the 17th head coach in PC’s 109-year…
Read MoreWare Shoals woman killed in Highway 25 wreck
A Ware Shoals woman died Tuesday night in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 25 near Mount Bethel Road in Laurens County. Lyndea Noel Madden, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, according to Deputy Coroner Bill Williams, Jr. South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Gary Miller said Madden was driving southbound of…
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