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LETTER: “PC is grateful for all of you, and we look forward to being your faithful partners in progress.”
Letter to the Editor
Clinton Chronicle
August 30, 2021
Dear Editor:
The “Welcome Home PC” event on Thursday, August 27, hosted by Main Street Clinton, was a smashing success and a...
OUR VIEW: Expanding History.
Congratulations are in order to the Rosemont Preservation Society for earning a $350,000 SC Conservation Bank grant that allows for land purchase at the Waterloo historic site.
It’s a bit “raw” right now; but brush cutting has been going on, so there could be a...
OUR VIEW: County Administrator.
Congratulations are in order for Thomas Higgs, the former interim city manager of Clinton, who now will be the Laurens County Administrator. In Clinton, he replaced former city manager Bill Ed Cannon, who retied without explanation. At the county level, Higgs...
Rhett Wilson: 8 Steps To Totalitarianism.
America, birthed in freedom, continues moving away from that shining virtue.
In his recent sermon on July 4th, “The Truth Shall Set You Free,” Pastor John MacArthur explained how a country can move from liberty to totalitarianism. Examining Aldous...
VIC’s View: We don’t care how you did it in Michigan.
So here’s what not to do - use Covid money to give yourself a Bonus.
A Michigan county council did just that - now they are giving it back. Laurens County has $6 million of its $13 million of COVID-19 local relief money sitting in the...
Olympic Efforts in District 56.
Presently the Summer Olympics are the rage on NBC. Morning, noon, and night there is an abundance of coverage...sports we like and even those we really don’t understand.
Sunday morning I watched the fencing finals as a young pre-med student from Kentucky won...
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control would do well to heed the request of the Laurens County Legislative Delegation. We are sure the agency does not need a reminder, but they are among the people who control the purse strings.
Delegates have asked DHEC officials to...
Vic's View: Big Foot goes lake-home shopping.
Today’s commentary is not original with me. It comes via Otis Driftwood on Facebook: Big Foot is shopping for a Lake Greenwood house.
Otis and two buddies were trying out the fishing - shark fishing, apparently, from another post - and...
OUR VIEW, Good Job, Laurens.
Our County Seat, the City of Laurens, deserves a pat on the back for staging a successful Independence Weekend celebration on July 3. We also were in proximity to July 2 Lights on the Lake and July 3 Town of Ware Shoals fireworks and music festivities to celebrate...
Russ Dean: “You are loved. You are forgiven. So be at peace.”
When I started typing these words, I was sitting on the deck of my parents’ house at Lake Greenwood. They bought an 800-square-foot block cabin in 1977. My dad was a pastor with a parsonage, and my parents were interested in an...
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