Area News
‘It’s just time’: Childress Cash & Carry closes after 62 years
Customers were lined up at Childress Cash & Carry Friday from the meat counter straight back down a narrow aisle nearly to the door during lunchtime Saturday. They were ordering what most said were arguably the best hot dogs in town for the last time, saying so long to owner Curtis Childress and the folks…
Read MoreRadio silence: WLBG to sign off airwaves on April 1
As a teenager at Clinton High School with an interest in broadcasting, Emil Finley was hired for his first job in radio. His last one will end Monday. Now the owner-operator of WLBG Radio in Laurens, Finley is set to close the doors at the station that began broadcasting in Laurens in 1948 during what…
Read MoreWaterloo woman killed in Tuesday car accident
An elderly Waterloo woman was killed Tuesday night in a two-vehicle crash on Riverfork Road. Mary Anderson, 84, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred just after 6 p.m. about 1.5 miles north of Waterloo. According to South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Brittany Glover, Anderson was driving a 2000 Ford…
Read MoreSC Forestry Commission issuing statewide burning ban
Friday, March 21 COLUMBIA—The South Carolina Forestry Commission is issuing a State Forester’s Burning Ban for all counties, effective at 6 p.m. today. A State Forester’s Burning Ban prohibits all outdoor burning, including yard debris burning, prescribed burning, campfires, bonfires and other recreational fires in all unincorporated areas of the state. Forestry Commission officials say…
Read MoreCogsdill defeats Neal for Clinton Ward 3 seat
A second incumbent failed in her bid for re-election to the Clinton City Council in a run-off election for the city’s Ward 3 seat Tuesday night. Natalie Cogsdill defeated incumbent Robbie Neal in the runoff after falling just one vote short of winning the seat during a three-way race in the municipal election on March…
Read MoreClinton council runoff today; new faces in several councils
Clinton voters in District 3 are heading to the polls today for the runoff election between Seat 3 Incumbent Robbie Neal and challenger Natalie Cogsdill. Voter precincts which include District 3 voters are combined at First Pentecostal Holiness Church, 403 Academy Street, Clinton. The Advertiser will post results from the runoff online Tuesday evening. It…
Read MoreCounty council rejects fireworks ordinance for second time
Laurens County Council decided on a do-over for a recently rejected fireworks ordinance, but a new vote on the old proposal didn’t change a thing. The motion to adopt the fireworks ordinance, which would have created potential buffers or “no fireworks zones” for active owners of livestock, failed on third reading for the second straight…
Read More‘Project Wolf’ bringing automotive supplier to Laurens County
The Laurens County Council unanimously approved first reading of a fee-in-lieu of taxes (FILOT) agreement at its regular meeting Monday night that paves the way for “Project Wolf” to proceed in the Fountain Inn area of the county off of I-385. “Project Wolf” includes a minimum $9.51 million investment and will initially bring 22 new…
Read MoreLDHS teacher arrested, fired by District 55
A Laurens District High School teacher accused of allowing students to use nicotine and THC products in her classroom was arrested following an investigation by the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office. Miranda Burton Stone of Laurens was charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk or cause harm, four counts of contributing to the delinquency of…
Read MoreCommunity Group Headed to the SC Court of Appeals to Fight for the Little River and Mountville Community
LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA A group of concerned residents and property owners in Mountville are headed to the South Carolina Court of Appeals after challenging the state environmental agency’s authorization of new poultry farms along Lisbon Road. These concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) would bring 16 new poultry barns to the area, which is already overburdened…
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