*** The Wednesday issue of The Advertiser reported that the Shred Truck, sponsored by Cornerstone Investments, would be downtown this week, but it will actually be next Saturday, June 19. The Advertiser apologizes for the error. Laurens, S.C. – A wide variety of music will fill the Historic Downtown Square Friday evening when Main Street…
The Laurens County Council is one step closer to approving its budget for the upcoming 2021-22 fiscal year. Approval of third and final reading of the county’s budget ordinances is expected to be approved at council’s June 23 regular meeting. On Tuesday night (June 8) council was to host public hearings on both the general…
A leader in automotive components headquartered in Sweden has found a new home in Laurens County. Frauenthal Gnotec will open a manufacturing and distribution facility in Fountain Inn, taking over the former Continental Automotive facility at 400 South Nelson Drive off of I-385. Continental, which employed about 40 people, ceased operations at the facility in…
Geneik Brewster will join the Gray Court Town Council where her late father served for more than three decades. Brewster won a special election Tuesday for an at-large seat on council, running unopposed and receiving all 19 of the votes that were cast. Turnout for the special election was 3.97%. The special election was necessitated…
June 2, 2021 Clinton, S.C. – Main Street Clinton is hosting its first of four summer concerts tomorrow night, Thursday, June 3, with music by country music performer Nick Smith, who will be performing an acoustic concert from 6 to 8 p.m. Restaurants will be open, and The Groovy Granny Food Truck will also be…
June 2, 2021 Laurens, South Carolina – Starting this Thursday, June 3, the mobile unit for The Blood Connection has scheduled several donor events in Laurens County to try and meet the desperate need for all types of whole blood across the upstate. Scheduling spots are still available when the bus will be at Walmart…
A suspect that was being sought in the early Wednesday morning death of a man who was assailed at a Laurens convenience store has been apprehended, according to the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office. LCSO Public Information Office Courtney Snow confirmed just after 9 a.m. Wednesday that Jeremy Ferguson was taken into custody. The incident, which…
A pedestrian was struck and killed Tuesday night on U.S. Highway 221 near Jimmy Hellams Drive, about a half-mile north of Laurens. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the victim was standing in the southbound lanes of 221 when she was struck by two vehicles who were traveling south on the highway at 10:29…
May 28, 2021 – With Memorial Day just a few days away and summer break on the horizon, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is encouraging parents to get their children 12 and older vaccinated as soon as possible to protect against COVID-19. Getting children vaccinated is important because they can…
Jury convicts on lesser charge The Laurens woman who infamously allowed a dog to starve nearly to death in her backyard in 2018 will spend the next 90 days in jail after a jury convicted her Thursday afternoon of ill-treatment of animals. Elizabeth James Morton was found guilty by the jury of six men and…