Area Breaking News
Raiders exorcise Demons with 12-4 playoff win
• Raiders to host Lugoff Elgin-Easley winner at 6 p.m. Friday (game moved to 6 p.m. to allow more travel time for Lugoff Elgin). Sulli Pinson’s sixth-inning home run to straightaway center that thudded loudly off the scoreboard was little more than exclamation point for the Laurens baseball team Monday night in a 12-4 playoff…
Read MoreRezoning sets high density development on track in Clinton
May, 17, 2021 Clinton, S.C. – Clinton City Council saw plans from three developers earlier this month during the regular May meeting, and while council still did not take a vote on which developer could purchase a tract on Highway 72, council members gave initial approval on rezoning property not far from Eastside School from industrial…
Read MorePrisma Health reduces hours, set to close The Ridge vaccine site
The CDC and the vaccine advisory committee has announced that children 12 and over can now receive the Pfizer vaccine, but Prisma Health began reducing hours at the Laurens site this week and it will close later this month. Prisma Health administers the Pfizer brand vaccine. Turnout has been lower at The Ridge in recent…
Read MorePC introduces Kelley as 19th head football coach
Presbyterian College reached into the high school ranks to hire a coach known nationally for his non-traditional brand of football. Kevin Kelley, a coach known for rarely punting and usually deploying on-side kicks instead of deep kickoffs, was announced as the 19th head coach in PC’s long football history at a press conference Friday afternoon…
Read MoreAnimal control, shelter honored with Lifesaving Award
Laurens County Animal Control was recognized this past week for its efforts to rescue and humanely treat animals. No Kill South Carolina presented LCAC and Sgt. Geoff Brown with the inaugural Lifesaving Award from No Kill South Carolina. Earlier this year, Brown won the Stop Puppy Mills Hero Award by the Humane Society of the…
Read MorePipeline shutdown poses problems at pump
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says the Colonial Pipeline is expected to reopen by the end of this week, but Laurens County residents still made a beeline for the pumps this week. The Colonial Pipeline, which shut down due to a cyber attack, supplies most of the gasoline along the East Coast, including the Carolinas…
Read MoreRed Devils advance to state tennis finals
Clinton’s Ike Waldron busted some strings on his racket during his No. 1 doubles match Tuesday in the Class 3A Upper State finals against visiting Seneca. But that’s about the only thing that went wrong for Waldron and doubles teammate Connor Donley in a 6-1, 6-1 win over Seneca’s Levi Leard and Joseph Burgess that…
Read MorePC hires ‘never punt’ Kelley as head football coach
Kevin Kelley, a high school coach at Arkansas’ Pulaski Academy known for never punting and a slew of state titles at the private school football powerhouse he helped create, is expected to be named head football coach at Presbyterian College at a news conference Friday (May 7) afternoon. KATV and other media outlets in Little…
Read MoreSLED: 2 arrests made for neglect at Whitten Center
Two women employed by Whitten Center at the time have been arrested and charged with neglect of a vulnerable adult at the center connected with an incident in November of last year. According to the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), investigators arrested Marquita Antoinetta Mcgowan, 35, of Clinton and Jasmine Lariane Tomika Carter, 25, of…
Read MoreDistrict 55’s Murray accepts Washington superintendent job
Laurens County School District 55 Chief of Staff Ed Murray is set to take over as superintendent of the Lopez Island School District in Washington. Murray, who has served in several capacities in District 55 including public relations and district-wide athletics director, is to begin his new job across the country on July 10. “I…
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