Main Street is gearing up for Finally Friday!, its series of summer evening events, which will open with the annual Sip-N-Stroll tonight (April 28). The Finally Friday! events occur on the last Friday night of each month from spring through August, and the first one this Friday will feature an outdoor free concert by ’80s…
Child Abuse Prevention Month Historic Courthouse, today at 5 p.m. Dozens of pairs of shoes, sized from tiny to large, will be on display on the north side of the Historic Courthouse steps at 5 p.m. today, April 28, and each pair of shoes will represent a Laurens County child in foster care this year…
Brenda Roberts collapsed upon being sentenced to 14 years in prison for her role in the cover-up after the 2003 of James Bolt at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Laurens. Roberts, 65, was convicted Thursday by a jury of five women and seven men of accessory after the fact in brutal murder of…
A morning of sometimes-contentious testimony in the trial of Brenda Roberts ended Wednesday before noon with Roberts taking the stand in her own defense. Roberts is charged with being an accessory after the fact in the 2003 murder and armed robbery of James Bolt at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Laurens. She is…
Nearly 14 years after the murder of James Bolt, the trial of a woman charged with accessory after the fact began Monday in 8th Circuit Court. Brenda Roberts, 65, was arrested in July of 2015 in Laurens County. About that same time, Arthur Jason “A.J.” Bowers, who was then living in Murrells Inlet, S.C., was…
Retirees from Laurens County will have a chance to voice their opinions on their insurance coverage during Tuesday night’s Laurens County Council meeting. The Laurens County Council recently voted to enforce a policy that would shift the cost of some insurance premiums back to the retirees. Those retirees claim that the county is responsible for…
The Laurens Police Department is making plans for its inaugural Bike to School Day for students at E.B. Morse Elementary School on Tuesday, May 23. The ride to school will begin for kindergarten-through-fifth graders at 7:50 a.m. at Collyar Park. “We want to have a parade-style ride and encourage people to come out and cheer…
Two more people were killed on Laurens County roadways this past week, bringing the total of highway deaths within county lines to 15 this year. Just before sunrise on Monday, Zahri Mahmoud Abozahri was struck while riding a bicycle on S.C. Highway 101 North about a half-mile south of I-385. Mahmoud, 22, of Gray Court,…
A Laurens School District 55 committee composed of administrators and Board of Trustees member Robbie Bell narrowed a list of architects for a proposed new Laurens District High School down to two at a Thursday morning meeting. The two architectural firms chosen from 11 initial applications are Jumper-Carter-Sease Architects of West Columbia and SfL+a Architects…
The staff at Musgrove Mill Golf Club knows what to expect and what to do when the men’s ACC Golf Tournament arrives in Clinton for the first time next week. But for the City of Clinton, it’s a new world filled with more ifs than whens. “This is all new for us,” said Clinton’s Amanda…