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PAIA Cherokee Nation celebrates new gift shop, needed upgrades
Laurens County, South Carolina – Tyler “Standing Bear” Williams and his mom, Lynette Lockey were looking over thick necklaces, many of them made by hand by members of the PAIA Lower Eastern Cherokee Nation SC located just off Metric Road between Gray Court and Laurens. They were there early, having come in from Charleston to…
Read MoreEmotional vigil held for murdered LGBTQ youth
A vigil Monday night at The Ridge in Laurens for an 18-year-old murder victim was both a celebration of a young life and a cautionary tale. Kierstyn Mackennah Payge Williamson, a Laurens native who had recently began to identify as a male and wished to be called Jacob, went missing on Friday, June 30 and…
Read MoreOrganizers hope baseball can again be a hit for Joanna
Like so many small textile towns scattered around the Carolinas, Joanna was home to a teeming mill with workers who punched the clock and then competed fiercely in textile baseball leagues when they were off of it. And like the mills themselves, the teams and the leagues have fallen into the bins of history, but…
Read MoreCounty Council makes changes to meeting schedule
For the first time in memory, the Laurens County Council is changing its regular meeting schedule. Council will now hold regular meetings once a month instead of twice, and that meeting will be held on the second Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Regular meetings were previously held on the second and fourth Tuesdays…
Read MoreLCDC board votes to spend $1 million on ‘Project Zebra’
The Laurens County Development Corporation Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday at its regular meeting to spend $1 million to support “Project Zebra,” a record $620 million investment in the county planned by an unnamed existing industry. The $1 million will go to help with infrastructure and other site improvements for the planned expansion, said…
Read MoreAnimal Shelter part of Pick Me! SC, hopes to alleviate overcrowding
The Laurens County Animal Shelter is currently participating in the Pick Me! SC statewide adoption event. During Pick Me! SC, adoption fees are waived for all animals, which have been spayed or neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and treated with heartworm and flea and tick preventatives. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. Laurens County…
Read MoreClemson vet school poised to help with shortage
Presbyterian College rising junior Eric Terry knew he wanted to be a veterinarian – he just didn’t know where he would make that happen. Terry, a Greenwood native, at least now has an option a little closer to home thanks to a recent decision by the Clemson University Board of Trustees that will open the…
Read More‘Project Zebra’ could bring record $600 million investment to county
The Laurens County Council was expected to go into executive session at its regular meeting Tuesday night to discuss “Project Zebra” and vote on first reading of a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement on the industrial development project. Laurens County Economic Development Corporation President Jonathan Coleman said if ultimately approved “Project Zebra” will be a historic investment for…
Read MoreThe Real Dillard: Clinton hurdler headed to AAU Junior Olympics
An oval track is taking Jabari Dillard from here to Grovetown, Georgia to Iowa. Dillard, a rising junior at Clinton High School, is headed to Drake University in Des Moines, at the end of July for the AAU Track and Field Junior Olympics and will compete in the 110m high hurdles after a personal record-setting…
Read MoreLegislators highlight vet school, teacher raises in $13B budget
Laurens County South Carolina – The local delegation representing Laurens County voters in the state legislature are on summer vacation right now, just weeks after the finalization and signage by Gov. Henry McMaster of the newly approved budget. Verdin applauds vet school appropriation During June the state legislature finalized its $13 billion budget for 2023-24,…
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