The Laurens Parks and Recreation Department will host its Teen Summer Nights programs on Mondays and Thursdays in July. The three-week-long event, which begins on Thursday, July 6, will feature several different sports and activities, including Ultimate Frisbee, basketball, Wiffle ball, pickleball, dodgeball and kickball. Teen Summer Nights will run through July 20. Each event…
From brass bands to fireworks and hot dogs, Laurens County has a full slate of events to celebrate Independence Day. The City of Clinton will get things starting Thursday with a patriotic Rhythm on the Rails, its regular summer concert series. Other events include the Laurens Freedom Fest Monday night (July 3), featuring the grammy-nominated…
A former professor and administrator at Presbyterian College is set to return to the school as its 20th president. The PC Board of Trustees announced Tuesday morning that Anita Olson Gustafson has been named PC’s 20th and first female president. Gustafson will officially take office on Aug. 1. She succeeds Matthew vandenBerg, who departs PC…
Laurens, South Carolina – Tommy Senn of Senn Farm was busy selling his summer greens, beets, yellow squash and zucchini next to the large Welcome to Laurens Mural on Saturday as Main Street Laurens’ Downtown Laurens Farmers Market welcomed its newest vendor, Laurens’ Matt Strange and his Melford’s Classic sandwich spreads. By 11 a.m., Strange…
Laurens, SC – The City of Laurens held its second annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, and organizers were pleased to see not only a diverse crowd but also a wide range of ages celebrating the meaning of Juneteenth, and the joy and freedom the holiday represents. “I believe the great attendance reflected an excitement to…
A memorial service with military honors was held for a U.S. Army veteran from Mountville Saturday at Kennedy Mortuary. Richard W. Heald III, 32, was killed on Tuesday, June 13 as he was working at a business on Cooley Bridge Road in Belton. He was repairing a 2014 Kenworth T880 tri-axle dump truck and…
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public once again about phone scams in which callers impersonate deputies in order to take money and information from them. “Remember- LCSO will not call you about active warrants and ask you to pay a fine,” the LCSO said in a social media post. “These scammers will…
This year’s Independence Day celebration in Laurens will have a different look and a different sound as people gather downtown on July 3. Dubbed “Laurens Freedom Fest,” the annual event in downtown Laurens will feature fireworks and two alternative rock groups with No. 1 records on their resumes. The Laurens event is among several scheduled…
Laurens, South Carolina – Friday Night Live this weekend will feature Clinton musicians on The Plaza as Wasperjaws takes the stage in Downtown Laurens. Friday Night Live is a partnership between the City of Laurens and Palmetto Brothers Dispensary, and the music begins at 7 p.m. On Saturday morning the Main Street Laurens Downtown Farmers…
Clinton, South Carolina – Clinton City Council got a look Monday evening at an array of conceptual drawings of the long-anticipated Clinton branch of the Laurens County Library. And with construction expected to begin soon, the library might be hosting patrons by next summer at its planned location of 304 W. Pitt St., just a…