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Spring Water Festival features Mac Arnold

August 20, 2012   The Journal
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Williamston’s 2012 Spring Water Festival will celebrate its 31st year of providing a fun, family oriented event loaded with activities this weekend in Mineral Spring Park. The festival will kick off at 6 p.m. Friday with crafts, children’s rides, food and live music by The System and the Out of Towners Band.

On Saturday, the fun will continue with the Spring Water Run, crafts and displays, auto show, fire truck rides, children’s entertainment and gospel music. This year the festival will feature a variety of stage entertainment throughout the day including local blues legend Mac Arnold and his band Plate Full ’O Blues.

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Williamston included in Greenville-Pickens area

July 18, 2012   The Journal

For Transportation Study
By Stan Welch – Williamston has joined West Pelzer in accepting their inclusion into the GPATS domain. GPATs stands for Greenville Pickens Area Transportation Study. “We kind of got gulped up,” said Mayor Carthel Crout, “but this is the smartest move for our town.”

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Mayor candidate Leach out of race

July 11, 2012   The Journal

William “Curly” Leach, who recently announced that he planned to run for the office of mayor in Williamston announced this week that he is dropping out of the race. In an emailed statement to The Journal, Leach said, “The last couple of months have been a whirlwind of excitement and change, some good and some sad.”

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Suspects in beating arrested in Piedmont, Williamston

July 11, 2012   The Journal

SWAT team called out

Two men accused of attacking a Piedmont man in Belton have been arrested and charged with attempted murder. One of the arrests was made last Monday (July 2) in Williamston and the other in Piedmont Monday, July 9 after a standoff that involved SWAT and lasted several hours.

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Pig in the Park May 18-19

May 02, 2012   The Journal

The Pig in the Park Barbecue Cookoff will be held May 18 and 19 in Williamston’s Mineral Spring Park. Acitivites will begin on Friday at 12 noon with barbecue and food sales, craft vendors, children’s play area and live entertainment by Barnyard on a Freight Train singing country music.

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SUV crashes front of Little Caesars

April 14, 2012   The Journal

Barry Kelly of the Williamston police department looks at a plate glass that was knocked out of the front of Little Caesars Friday evening after the building was struck by an SUV.

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ACTC funds approved for paving in park

April 11, 2012   The Journal
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By Stan Welch

The Anderson County Transportation Committee approved $50,000 in funds to be used in repaving the section of Spring Street that runs through the Mineral Spring Park in Williamston.

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Public Hearing April 12 on sewer grant

April 09, 2012   The Journal

The Town of Williamston will hold a public hearing on April 12 at 2 p.m. concerning an application to be submitted to South Carolina Department of Commerce, Grants Administration for a Community Development Block Grant. The Town is requesting $122,690 for

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Public hearing April 12 on sewer grant

April 06, 2012   The Journal

The Town of Williamston will hold a public hearing on April 12 at 2 p.m. concerning an application to be submitted to South Carolina Department of Commerce, Grants Administration for a Community Development Block Grant. The Town is requesting $122,690

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Williamston Police Report

April 04, 2012   The Journal

Williamston Police Officers investigated the following:

Mar. 30 – Brandie Marie Toothman, 30, 835 Joe Black Rd. Williamston was arrested for operating an uninsured vehicle, driving under suspension and failure to register a vehicle after officers observed a Nissan car on Mill St. D. M. Stipe investigated.

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