April 17 will be a new kind of Opening Day in Joanna. Organizers of the Joanna Project have planned a groundbreaking ceremony for the renovation of Joanna Stadium, which once was the home of textile league baseball at 917 Milton Road. The ceremony is set for 10 a.m. at home plate on the old stadium…
More than 40 firefighters from agencies in Laurens County helped in an attempt to contain wildfires at and around Table Rock this past week. Crews from Laurens County Fire Services, the City of Laurens Fire Department and the Clinton Fire Department worked rotating shifts as the blaze spread, eventually burning more than 13,000 acres across…
Laurens County Emergency Services along with agencies from across the Upstate will conduct a full-scale mass casualty exercise from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16 at The Sawmill Training Complex on Neely Ferry Road and The Gulches Off-Road Vehicle Park on Indian Mound Road. The training exercise is designed to enhance preparedness and response…
Laurens, South Carolina – Sycamore Landscape Design owners Randy and Carol Davis get to enjoy the beauty of their work each week as they take time to maintain the gardens within Back Street Park, located at the corner of Main and Harper streets in Laurens. The duo was just awarded the Horticulturist of the Year…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…