Timber!
Clinton City Council last night gave unanimous 1st reading approval to an ordinance authorizing the sale of Timber on city-owned property. City Manager Stovall recommended the sale of timber from 8...
View ArticleClinton Approves Projects for CNNGA Funds
Each year the Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority releases funds to the city of Clinton for the purpose of economic development. At last night’s meeting of Clinton City Council City Manager Frank...
View ArticleSatterfield to Head Clinton Public Works
The City of Clinton has selected Dale Satterfield to serve as the Director of the department of Public Works after the current director, Michael J. Reddeck retires next year. Satterfield announced...
View ArticleHard to Handle Rejection?
Rejection can be difficult for some people to take. Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to a Bailey Street residence at 10:15 last night, where a woman reported trouble getting a man to leave her...
View Article12 Year-Old Allegedly Sells Marijuana to 14-year-old at BSMS
Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to Bell Street Middle School at 11:17 yesterday morning after school administrators reported finding drugs on a student. Administration had been alerted by a...
View ArticleBonds Total $30,000 on Kidnapping & Assault Charges
Charges of Kidnapping and Assault and Battery were served on a young Clinton female yesterday, following her arrest from an incident at her home Monday afternoon. Clinton Public Safety served charges...
View ArticleMan Charged with Shooting at His Spouse
The Sheriff’s office yesterday arrested a Western Laurens County man on charges of assaulting his spouse with a gun early Monday morning. Deputies had been called later Monday morning by a woman...
View ArticleUpstate Radio Legend Dies
In the 50’s 60’s when radio stations wanted to attract African-American listeners they typically hired white guys to pose as black while spinning R & B records. One of the first Black men to...
View ArticleMan and Woman Arrested on Meth Manufacture Charges
A man and woman were arrested yesterday afternoon on Meth Manufacture charges. Sheriff’s Sgt. John Carter was patrolling the Hellams Road, Gray Court area at 1:22 yesterday afternoon looking for a...
View ArticleThree Charged with Hunter Industrial Park Break-In
Laurens City Police yesterday arrested three men in connection with a break-in of a storage building at a construction site in the Hunter Industrial Park Thanksgiving weekend. One of the three is also...
View ArticleWhat NOT to Call Your Wife
Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to North Sloan Street at 4:19 yesterday afternoon to investigate a report of mutual combat. A man reported getting into an argument with this father-in-law that...
View Article$50,000 Bond Set on Violation of Probation Charge
South Carolina Probation and Parole yesterday arrested 47-year-old Michael Lee Malone of 404 Finley Circle, Mountville on a warrant charging Violation of Probation. He is accused of failing to...
View Article2 Properties Entered, Metal Valued at $4,000 Stolen
A report yesterday indicated that metal valued at $4,000 was stolen from a Northern Laurens County business site. Sheriff’s Deputy Jamie Lee Edwards was dispatched to the 500 address range of Andrews...
View ArticleChip Brownlee is New Member of Election Commission
The Laurens County Legislative Delegation has appointment a new member to the Laurens County Elections Commission. Kenneth Blueford Brownlee III, known as “Chip” Brownlee, of 7099 Highway 49,...
View ArticleClinton Gets Good Financial Report
There have been some changes in financial reporting for the City of Clinton but they’re mostly just changes in name only. Toni McKinley of McKinley, Cooper and Associates presented Clinton’s...
View ArticleTwo Attempted Murder Charges Allege November Shooting
A man wanted for allegedly shooting at two people in a car last month was arrested by the Sheriff’s office last night. 34-year-old Doane Jerel Allen of 355 Lakeview Drive, Gray Court was charged with...
View ArticleTwo Burglary Suspects Held with Bond Set
The other two men charged Tuesday with the $5,000 heist of tools and metals from Hunter Industrial Park last weekend had arraignment hearings yesterday. 47-year-old Sebastian Eugene Porter Sr. and...
View ArticleWoman Also Charged with Child Neglect
The Sheriff’s Office yesterday charged a second person with Child Neglect from the alleged Meth lab on Patton Road outside Laurens Tuesday. 20-year-old Taylor Lee Wilkes of 2950 Highway 39,...
View ArticleTheft Suspect Faces Drug & Child Neglect Charges
Of the three people arrested Tuesday in connection with the theft this past weekend at the Allupress Plant in Hunter Industrial Park, one was also charged with a break-in and theft of goods valued...
View Article4th Person Charged with Weekend Theft from Hunter Industrial Park
A fourth person has been charged in connection with the Thanksgiving Weekend theft of tools and metals valued at $5,000 from a storage building in Hunter Industrial Park. 44-year-old Michael Robert...
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