Rain and playoff considerations have forced changes in Clinton High School’s sports schedules.

Thornwell is approved to open a new 5K-5th public charter school in the fall of 2019. Sponsored by the Charter Institute at Erskine, Thornwell plans to enroll students from throughout South Carolina.

Clinton High School has combined its winter and spring sports banquets into one occasion, scheduled to be held in two parts on May 22 and beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the main gymnasium.

Boiling Springs, NC – The Presbyterian College baseball team rallied to score four runs in the seventh and eighth innings but ultimately fell to Gardner-Webb on Sunday, 6-5, at the John Henry Moss Stadium. The Blue Hose fall to 13-29 overall and 6-12 in the Big South, while the Runnin’ Bulld…

Clinton High School junior Paige Trent broke the school’s record in the 3,200 meters on April 14 in the Bojangles Classic at Spring Valley High School.

Boiling Springs, NC – The Presbyterian College baseball dropped a 5-4 game to Gardner-Webb on Saturday afternoon at the John Henry Moss Stadium. Nick Guimbarda and Nick Wise both had two-run homeruns to lead PC. The Blue Hose fall to 13-28 overall and 6-11 in the Big South, while the Runnin’…

It’s not yet playoffs time. For Clinton High tennis coach Clovis Simmons, it’s playoff preparation time.

It’s been a cold baseball season at Clinton High School and, for that matter, throughout Laurens County. Temperature was just the half of it.

Clinton High’s J.P. Snelgrove hung a hat track on the Newberry Bulldogs on Tuesday night in Newberry as the Red Devils completed their Region 3-3A season at 7-3.

Clinton High School swept the Laurens County Track Meet on Tuesday, but the boys’ meet came down to the final event, where P.J. Bluford gave the Red Devils their margin of victory in the high jump.

Clinton High gets a chance to atone for its only tennis loss to date in a Tuesday visit to St. Joseph’s Catholic in Greenville.

The Presbyterian College baseball team broke a 3-3 tie with South Carolina courtesy an RBI double from Jonathan White in the fifth inning on Tuesday. The Blue Hose would go on to win 7-4 at Founders Park and improve their record to 12-26 on the year. The Gamecocks fall to 20-17 this season.

Austin Francis is looking toward the future and a successful career that will last. For the 2017 Clinton High School graduate, the dual enrollment classes he took from Piedmont Technical College were the first steps to that future.

The Presbyterian College football team (0-2) fell to 13th-ranked The Citadel (2-0), 48-7, on Saturday afternoon at Bailey Memorial Stadium in what proved to be PC’s home opener after the game was moved from Charleston earlier this week due to the threat of Hurricane Irma.

Once upon a time, Tom T. Hall wrote a song in which he mentioned a fellow in a bar “who claimed he was a veteran of the Falkland Islands War.” It was only slightly more likely for The Citadel to be playing football in Clinton on Saturday.

Five touchdowns and 255 yards on the ground are usually enough to satisfy a team. Mark Wise got it himself in Clinton’s 47-33 victory over Aiken at Wilder Stadium on Friday night.

ACT released its annual Condition of College and Career Readiness Report for the Class of 2017 on Thursday. South Carolina’s 50,936 high school graduates showed across the board improvements during the state’s second year of 100 percent participation in the college entrance assessment.

When the camera closes in on the kid on the sideline, he doesn’t usually say, “Hi, Pop!” No, “I love you, Mom” is definitely more prevalent.

Hartsville, SC – Sienna Brent and Elijah Hayes, from Laurens County, have been accepted to the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics (GSSM) in Hartsville. They join students from across South Carolina to form the Class of 2019.

Beyond all doubt, Greer was better at football than Clinton on Friday night.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Presbyterian College football team (0-1) fell to ACC foe Wake Forest (1-0), 51-7, on Thursday night at BB&T Field in Winston-Salem, N.C. in the season opener for both teams.

The City of Clinton and the City of Laurens will revise their garbage collection schedule for the week of September 3 due to the observation of the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 4.

Teachers in Districts 56 are beneficiaries of award-winning training that could save their lives someday.

Clinton High School will get a new region mate after the appellate panel hearings on realignment on Tuesday at the South Carolina High School League. Union County won their appeal by a vote of 4-3 and will join Clinton in Region 3-3A for 2018-20.

The Clinton Family YMCA is offering open registration for Youth Soccer for three playing divisions through the September 25 deadline.

The Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy recently held its annual White Coat Ceremony for its incoming students.

Each year the football teams representing Laurens and Clinton play with intensity and preparation, but the Raiders’ 24-18 victory over the Red Devils was the first classic in a while.

The Laurens Raiders JV football team held Clinton on fourth down in overtime to capture the 18-12 win on Thursday night at Clinton High School.

Clinton volleyball swept the Laurens Raiders in varsity and JV action on Thursday night at Clinton High School.

In the Clinton city square gathered a crowd that looked almost exactly like Clintonians, but most of them weren’t. On the fateful day the eclipse came to town, the moon and sun brought a crowd.

Presbyterian College head baseball coach Elton Pollock announced the additions of assistant coach Gil Walker and volunteer assistant coach Marshall McDonald to the program’s coaching staff on Monday.

The Clinton Red Devils got their last preseason tune-up before the season on Wednesday in a scrimmage with the Blacksburg Wildcats at Wilder Stadium.

Musgrove Mill State Historic Site protects, preserves and interprets the American Revolutionary War battle that occurred on August 19, 1780 near the home of Edward Musgrove, a colonial settler to the backcountry of South Carolina.

How Tom Fortman became the new head baseball coach at Clinton High School is quite a yarn.

The magical run for the Clinton 11-12 All-Stars came to an end last week but not before they captured a second place finish in the Dixie Youth Ozone World Series in Oxford, AL.

In the first 3 minutes, 56 seconds of Friday night’s scrimmage against Strom Thurmond, Clinton’s offense lost two yards, and the sound in the stands was the dull hum of a thousand or so saying “whoa” all at once, with an “uh-oh” for good measure.

WOODRUFF – Opening the Arthur State Bank Woodruff Showcase, Clinton held up its end of the bargain with a 20-7 victory over Blue Ridge on Thursday evening.

The Clinton 11-12 All-Stars picked up one win and one loss on Wednesday, defeating Texas 11-0 and losing to Alabama 3-2 in the Dixie Youth Ozone World Series in Oxford, AL.

The Clinton All-Stars broke open a close 1-0 game with nine runs in the fourth and fifth innings to take a 10-0 win over Tennessee in the Dixie Youth Ozone World Series in Oxford, AL on Tuesday.

The Presbyterian College men’s basketball team and Head Coach Dustin Kerns announced the non-conference portion of its schedule Tuesday. The slate includes contests against the Atlantic Coast, Conference USA, Southeastern, Southern, Southland, America East, Western Athletic, and Mid-Eastern …

Clinton High School’s cross country program completed a rather unusual project last week.

At the annual convention for the National Association of Campus Safety Administrators (NASCA), Larry Mulhall, director of safety and risk management and campus police at Presbyterian College, and Captain Jon Baker, campus police officer were recognized.

The Clinton 11-12 All-Stars opened the Dixie Youth Ozone World Series in Oxford, AL by defeating the host team 16-1 in three innings.

Agents of the SC Law Enforcement Division (SLED) arrested a Clinton woman on Friday in connection with injuries to a vulnerable adult earlier this year.

The Clinton Red Devils got their first live action of the preseason on Saturday morning with a scrimmage against Emerald and Midland Valley at Emerald High School in Greenwood.

All’s well that starts well for the Clinton Red Devils.

The time for the start of the 2017-2018 school year is approaching fast and District 56 will have a few changes for the coming year.