Republican Clinton businessman David Tribble reclaimed the County Council District 7 seat that belonged to him more than a decade ago with a victory over Council Chairman David Pitts in Tuesday’s General Election. Tribble, who also served two terms as Clinton’s mayor in the 1980s and one term in the South Carolina General Assembly, won…
Laurens County voters approved a 1-cent Capital Project Sales Tax Tuesday, voting overwhelmingly in favor of a plan that will invest nearly $35 million in 16 building and improvement projects all around the county. When the votes were tallied, 14,370 people voted for the referendum (58%) and 10,366 (42%) voted against it. The “Yes” votes…
Children of Laurens County, or adults who are young at heart, will have splash pads to play in to cool off if the Capital Project Sales Tax passes in next week’s election. The three splash pads will go into parks within the City of Laurens, Joanna and Ware Shoals as part of a large scale…
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a former deputy who worked at the Johnson Detention Center and charged him with misconduct in office. Phillip Kevin Tollison, 33, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the detention center. The LCSO requested a criminal investigation by the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) after learning of the alleged…
A week prior to the Nov. 3 General Election, local voter turnout has been heavy as early voters have taken advantage of expanded mail-in and early voting. Through 5 p.m. Tuesday, 5,458 voters have cast their ballots early at the Laurens County Board of Voter Registration and Elections offices at the Historic County Courthouse in…
(Editor’s Note: The Laurens County Advertiser is taking a look at each of the 16 projects proposed to be funded by the Capital Project Sales Tax (CPST) in Laurens County. The 1-cent sales tax will be put to a referendum in the Nov. 3 General Election. The final two projects in our series take…
While there are several familiar names on the ballot for next week’s General Election, the only contested partisan race locally involves County Council Chairman David Pitts (D-Clinton) and the man he replaced on council in 2011, David Tribble (R-Clinton) facing off in the District 7 council race. Tribble, who was also the one-time mayor of…
The Gray Court Town Council decided at its recent October regular meeting to cancel this year’s town Christmas Parade due to the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming the first of the county’s three largest holiday parades to be officially called off. Clinton will not be hosting its annual Christmas parade, and the Laurens parade is very much…
(Editor’s Note: The Laurens County Advertiser is taking a look at each of the 16 projects proposed to be funded by the Capital Project Sales Tax (CPST) in Laurens County. The 1-cent sales tax will be put to a referendum in the Nov. 3 General Election. The projects looked at today are a proposed agricultural…
(Editor’s Note: The Laurens County Advertiser is taking a look at each of the 16 projects proposed to be funded by the Capital Project Sales Tax (CPST) in Laurens County. The 1-cent sales tax will be put to a referendum in the Nov. 3 General Election. The projects looked at today are a proposed agricultural…