The inaugural Piedmont Blues & Roots Festival is coming into focus with a lineup of artists set to perform and other events on the schedule for the one-day event on May 14. The festival has been two years in the making after initial plans for 2020 were interrupted by COVID-19. “I’m just really happy that…
The Laurens County Coroner’s identified Sunday morning the victim of a motorcycle crash that occurred Saturday afternoon on Church Street in Laurens. The victim of the fatal crash was identified as Terina Brown, 60, of Simpsonville. She died of blunt force trauma, said Chief Deputy Coroner Patti Canupp. According to the Laurens Police Department, Brown…
The Laurens County Council was expected accept bids Tuesday for two of the 16 projects county voters agreed to fund in the 2020 Capital Project Sales Tax referendum. Once accepted, work can begin on the new evidence facility for the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office as well as a number of projects within an overall improvement…
(Staff Reports) A Whitmire man is headed to prison for the next 25 years after he pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to charges stemming from a three-month crime spree that included two home invasions and three other residential burglaries, 8th Circuit Solicitor David M. Stumbo announced Tuesday. Tracy Glen Parsons, 55, of Whitmire, pleaded guilty Monday…
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a person of interest in a shooting that occurred Tuesday on Chicago Drive in Gray Court. Rashad Kentrel Irby is wanted on two existing warrants for poinint and presenting a weapon and is a person of interest in the Chicago Drive shooting. Irby is about 5-11 and…
Laurens, S.C. – Johnny and Shenoa Cheeks recently opened their new event space in Laurens, and they are already seeing the fruits of their labor as requests for the historic armory on South Harper Street Extension outnumber the weekends. Dubbed The Ballroom Weddings and Events, LLC, the couple has rescued the historic armory, and schedules…
Clinton, S.C. – Tom Brooks is officially Clinton’s new city manager, having been sworn into office Monday night, a month ahead of his planned start date of May 1. During these first few weeks he’ll be working several days a week in Clinton until transitioning full time here, and eventually relocating to the city with…
Local state Reps. Stewart Jones and Doug Gilliam will be on the ballot when the Republican Primary Election is held on June 14. The two incumbents received primary challenges from within their party. Jones, who represents District 14, will face GOP challenges from Cole Kazmarski of Waterloo and Joe Benson of Cross Hill. (Benson’s photo…
One day after a fatal shooting at a Greenville County middle school, Laurens County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an 8th-grader at Gray Court-Owings Middle School for posting a threatening message on social media. According to information from Laurens County School District 55, the message was posted to Snapchat around noon Friday. Upon learning of the post,…
Investigators from the Clinton and Laurens police departments are investigating separate shooting incidents that occurred Wednesday. According to Clinton Police, officers responded to an incident at Clinton Manor and found a gunshot victim who was subsequently taken to Prisma Greenville Memorial Hospital. Clinton Police continue to investigate the shooting. Around 9 p.m., Laurens Police responded…