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In their monthly meeting at the Laurens CPW Training Center on Wednesday night, Laurens City Council unanimously approved first reading of an ordinance that authorizes city administration and the mayor to negotiate the sale of 201 West Main Street in Laurens.

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As much as things change, they often also seem to stay the same. That can be said of the machine tool industry — even in the midst of digital advances and increased automation. Don Lytch has been teaching machine tool at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) for nine years and with the Greenwood …

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Presbyterian College’s mission to transform a piece of real estate in downtown Clinton into a social hub uniting the campus and local communities was accomplished Tuesday at the official ribbon-cutting for 112.

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A Joanna man with a lengthy criminal history is headed back to prison after pleading guilty to drug and weapon charges the day his trial was scheduled to begin, 8th Circuit Solicitor David M. Stumbo announced Tuesday.

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The District 55 band programs will host a mattress sale on Saturday, March 25. The sale is used as a fundraiser to help grow the band programs in the district.

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Laurens native Ophrah Kablan is heading to Hollywood Week with a Golden Ticket on the 21st season of American Idol after receiving three “Yes” votes from judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Katy Perry, when her audition aired on ABC on Sunday night.

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Piedmont Technical College (PTC) has been selected to participate in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Intermediaries for Scale” (IFS) initiative, a $100 million investment over five years to forge and support a network of higher education institutions committed to institutional trans…

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Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-3rd-Laurens) used part of his back-home time from Congress to hear from and thank first responders from around his far-flung district. His stops included the MS Bailey Municipal Building in Uptown Clinton on Tuesday.

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Former mayoral candidate in the City of Laurens and current city councilor Alicia Sullivan has formally announced her support for Randy Garrett, a candidate who will face off with incumbent Nathan Senn in a runoff on Tuesday, March 21.