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The State Grades Districts & Schools

District 56 has a clear direction toward a school that needs improvement based on state report cards issued Thursday. For the first time in four years, the State Department of Education is grading districts and handing out “word” grades to individual schools. Grades are based on test data and...

Neal is awaiting action on drunk driving charge

“You’ve Got the Biggest Catch” Representative of Ward 3 on Clinton City Council and a member of the recreation committee, Robbie Naomi Neal is continuing in her role as a city council member pending court action on her second drunk driving charge. The City of Clinton refuses to release the...

Domestic violence allegations

Kidnapping, 1st Degree Domestic Assault Monday, December 3, 2018 - WLBG Kidnapping and a 1st Degree Assault on Saturday were among charges the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office had with an early Sunday morning arrest. Initially charged with Public Disorderly Conduct, 29-year-old Broderick Lee...

Thompson Road has the FI area fire station

A Site for Protection FOUNTAIN INN - Once a cotton farm, the area around the Saxon Station now is served by firefighters and volunteers housed in Laurens County’s newest fire station. Dedicated Nov. 17, Station 30 serves the rural area of Fountain Inn in north-western Laurens County. It is the...

Making a Future for Laurens County

The Laurens County Future Scholarship Continues Impacting Local Students LAURENS – Thanks to the continued support of the Laurens County Future Scholarship (LCFS) program, the Fall 2018 semester at Piedmont Technical College and the University of South Carolina, Union were fully funded for...

A Gift to Medicine

One million reasons to celebrate: $1 million scholarship named for GHS cardiologist on 75th birthday GREENVILLE — The glow of 75 candles on a birthday cake may shine bright, but retired Greenville Health System cardiologist Ed Lominack learned at his surprise birthday party recently that he’d...

The Sounds of the Season This Weekend

THIS WEEKEND -- Christmas at PC set for Dec. 1 and 2 The Department of Music at Presbyterian College will present Christmas at PC 2018,"and the angels sang," on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. The annual concert will be held in Belk Auditorium. PC’s music ensembles...

A Chronicle Freedom of Information Request

The City of Clinton takes no bids for engineering work The City of Clinton did not seek competitive bids for preliminary engineering work and conceptual drawings done on a proposed recreation complex located on Hwy. 56 just north of Clinton. The city’s purchasing manual, adopted by city council...

Sunday Sales of Alcohol in Clinton Proposed

SUNDAY SALE OF ALCOHOL: If an ordinance is passed by Clinton City Council - 1st reading approval will be given on Monday - voters will decide if alcohol will be sold on Sunday at businesses inside the city limits. The council will make this decision this Monday, Dec. 3, 6 pm in council chambers of...

UPDATED Celebrate A Clinton Christmas

TONIGHT - Jingle and Mingle, and Think Laurens County, in uptown Clinton from 6 to 9 p.m. w-FLYERS ATTACHED AND PARADE LINE-UP for Saturday morning, and Woodbridge Clinton (formerly Bailey Manor) Holiday Fair, all-day this Saturday. “A Family Christmas” will be conducted in Clinton with these...