GREENWOOD — The Piedmont Technical College Area Commission approved a new “Job-Ready Guarantee” policy at its April 16 meeting. The guarantee pledges that graduates will enter the workforce fully able to perform job-related skills learned as a part of their programs of study.

It was a refreshing evening of political discourse on Thursday at The Artist’s Coop/Coffee Roost on the Laurens Square.

Fukoku America, Inc., the recipient of the 2018 Manufacturing Excellence Award and an international company located in Laurens, is looking for great people to join the Fukoku Family.

Some students contemplating a health care major at Piedmont Technical College can risk unnecessarily wasting time taking classes that don’t serve them without a clear focus on their eventual destination.

Victoria Bass, Amber Goolsby, and Jaimeen Shah are the winners of an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., sponsored by Laurens Electric Cooperative. They will travel with other South Carolina students to the nation’s capital, where they will join more than 1,400 students from across the co…

Joe and Mica Nixon, of Clinton, were recently inducted into Presbyterian College’s William Plumer Jacobs Society. The event took place at the Poinsett Club in Greenville, S.C.

Each week, Laurens District 55 recognizes a member of their staff in the Alumni Spotlight.

Whether it is a nice sunrise, sunset or family events, everyone enjoys capturing moments to remember with a nice photo. Sometimes that moment can slip by while trying to get the camera out.

Police chief Chrissie Cofield was on hand Tuesday to see Laurens City Council and mayor Nathan Senn issue a proclamation commemorating April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the city.

John Deere dealer Blanchard Equipment is relocating its Clinton store to Greenwood in May 2019.

Laurens County residents are invited to attend a job fair hosted at the Piedmont Technical College campus at the Higher Education Center from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 25.

The first and only candidate forum between Garrett McDaniel and Stewart Jones is scheduled for Thursday, April 18 at the Coffee Roost on the Laurens Square from 5-7 p.m.

Kevin Willmott, Oscar-winning screenwriter for the film BlacKkKlansman, will speak at Presbyterian College on Thursday, April 25. The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Edmunds Hall.

Students from both Sanders Middle School and Laurens Middle School performed together during the spring band concert, which was recently held in the LMS auditorium.

GREENWOOD – It’s OK. You can cut in line without receiving dirty looks, so long as you are participating in one of Piedmont Technical College’s “Instant Admission Days.”

Third District Congressman Jeff Duncan made a formal endorsement of Stewart Jones, the Republican nominee for the special election in S.C. House District 14.