It’s almost Clemson-Carolina time, and an ex-Tiger and an ex-Gamecock are the featured speakers at Thursday’s noon meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club at The Ridge.

Clinton City Council rose with the roosters Wednesday morning, but there was precious little crowing.

Football is over, and it’s time to gear up for basketball season.

The District 56 Board of Trustees spent just 30 minutes Monday night receiving a report about Eastside Elementary School – its meeting location – and learning about the anti-bullying phone app, “StopIt.”

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – It was no surprise the Notre Dame defeated Presbyterian in men’s basketball Monday, but the Blue Hose put a scare into the Fighting Irish, who won, 63-53.

A traffic accident involving a vehicle and three pedestrians took the life of a 17-month-old child on Sunday at approximately 5:48 p.m. on Bellview Church Road near Laurens.

The Presbyterian College volleyball team concluded the regular season with a 3-0 sweep (26-24, 25-16, 25-16) at High Point (N.C.) on Saturday afternoon in Big South Conference action. The Blue Hose improve to 14-14 (8-6 Big South), while the Panthers fall to 20-11 (12-2 Big South).

Sunday, November 17

Sophomore running back Kendrick Bell rushed for 123 yards, and Alex Usry kicked field goals of 51 and 42 yards as Charleston Southern defeated Presbyterian, 27-7, in the Blue Hose’ last game as a football member of the Big South Conference on Saturday at Bailey Memorial Stadium.

Almost no one can afford health care without insurance. Many people in Laurens County and everywhere else in the United States receive government assistance in securing health care.

Four members of Laurens Academy’s 8-man football team have been honored by the S.C. Independent School Association’s Region 2, headed by prolific junior quarterback-defensive back Thomas Lowry.

With balanced scoring and stifling defense, Morehead State defeated Presbyterian, 77-55, in the Blue Hose’ first men’s game of the season at Templeton Center on Thursday night.

On the heels – it’s a particularly apt cliché for a football team that goes by Blue Hose – of a victory that ended a 16-game losing streak, Presbyterian College will go for another streak on Saturday afternoon at Bailey Memorial Stadium when Charleston Southern brings down the curtain on PC’…

On Thursday, the Laurens County Sheriff’s office arrested an additional suspect in the November 4 murder of Miguel Gutierrez-Mendoza in Clinton.

Greenwood is a big lake, and the water plant the Laurens County Water and Sewer Commission is building is a big deal.

Three Clinton kids played on the Whitmire Chargers, winners of the Newberry Recreation League football playoffs, contested November 7, 9 and 12.

The Capital Initiative Commission, which will write the ballot question for a 1-cent addition to the Laurens County sales tax for a Nov. 2020 vote, is now final after 1 hour, 20 minutes in closed session and seven ballots by the County Council.