First “Jump Start” Winner
The Main Street Laurens Economic Enhancement Committee has announced Til Culbertson and Courtney Taylor Mims with Yo’ Cup Cafe and Coffee House as the 1st winner of the Jump Start program. Yo’ Cup was...
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Chamber Business of the Quarter
The Laurens County Chamber of Commerce presented the Small Business of the 2nd Quarter Award on Monday, August 25, 2014, to Glen & Marilyn Easter of Eastglen Farm. Glen & Marilyn Easter moved...
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Chamber Ambassador of the Quarter
The Laurens County Chamber of Commerce presented the 2nd Quarter Awards on Monday, August 25, 2014 at the April Board meeting. Ambassador of the 2nd Quarter was presented to Kimberly Kitchens,...
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Fire at Bailey Manor
Just before 4:00 Wednesday afternoon, a car drove through the front entrance of Bailey Manor in Clinton. Public Safety officers responded and a fireman tried to remove the driver of the vehicle from...
View ArticleMore Than 100 Dogs RESCUED!
On Tuesday WLBG reported on the seizure of 116 dogs from one house by Laurens County Animal Control. That many dogs at one time created a serious over crowding issue at the Animal Control shelter and...
View ArticleSecurity Car is Stolen
A Donalds resident reported a car theft from Western Laurens County yesterday. In a report to the Sheriff’s Office yesterday morning, she said someone took her car from a location on Graden Road, Ware...
View ArticleSmacked Her in the Face
A young woman reported to Clinton Public Safety yesterday afternoon that she was driving in ‘the car’ on Springdale Drive when a man, who is ‘the kid’s father’ reached around the seat and smacked her...
View ArticleSaudis &“Auto Correct” Blamed for Threat
A Deputy was advised of threats between two Laurens High students yesterday morning. The officer was given a print-out of statements made on Facebook. One of the subjects reportedly told Lt. Young that...
View ArticleWoman Charged with Neglect of 2 Children
Clinton Public Safety yesterday charged 27-year-old Lauren Ashley Chesney of 302 Chestnut Street, Clinton with two counts of Child Neglect. Sgt. Shane Prather states that her two children tested...
View ArticleTeacher Development, ACT Scores
At this week’s District 55 School Board meeting, Assistant Administrator Tara Dean gave an update on the many professional development classes held during the summer, and presented the Act scores,...
View ArticleSimmons Up to Level IV
A District 56 School Board member is up to Level IV……..and it’s not a video game. The South Carolina School Boards Association encourages local school board members to educate themselves about issues...
View ArticleMan & Woman Charged with Assault
Laurens Police were 1st dispatched to Hillcrest Drive at 7:03 yesterday morning on a report of people loitering, but shortly thereafter were sent to South Harper Extension in reference to possibly the...
View ArticleCriminal Sexual Conduct
A Spartanburg County man is being charged with inappropriate contact with a minor in Laurens County a month ago. The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested 46-year-old Charles Elmo Green...
View ArticleMan Held; No Charges Yet from Fire at Bailey Manor
An elderly man was being held in the Laurens County Detention Center earlier today, as an investigation continued into yesterday afternoon’s events at Bailey Manor on Jacobs Highway in Clinton. The man...
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Attempted Murder Charge in Bailey Manor Fire
A resident of Bailey Manor was charged today with Attempted Murder in connection with yesterday afternoon’s fire at Bailey Manor. 84-year-old Alton Payton of 300 Jacobs Highway, Clinton was charged...
View ArticleSports Report for Friday, 8-29-2014
The Blue Hose football team opened their season on the road up in DeKalb, Ill. as they took on the Huskies of Northern Illinois.. It was not what PC fans had hoped for as the powerful Huskies took a...
View ArticleTheft While Going to Work
A watch valued at $300 was reported stolen from a residence at Landau Apartments yesterday morning. Clinton Public Safety Sgt. Cathy Anderson was dispatched to the apartment at 9:12 am. A woman said...
View ArticleTheft from Garage
Clinton Public Safety Officer Doug Richardson was dispatched to the 600 block of North Broad at 7:38 yesterday morning after a man discovered a door open to his garage and several items missing from...
View ArticleCustody Dispute
Sheriff’s Deputy Taylor responded to a Clinton area address at 9:51 yesterday morning and met with a man about messages he had received from the mother of his child’s mother, apparently making...
View ArticleGenerator Theft
A Hickory Tavern businessman yesterday morning reported the theft of a generator valued at $4,000. He informed Sheriff’s Lt Keith McIntosh that it was taken from a house being remodeled on Highland...
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