County Signs: Legends of fall begin with August work

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Practice makes perfect. Doesn’t it? It’s not without its hazards. Injuries happen. An ancient television show known as Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In used to hand out the “Fickle Finger of Fate.” My view is that luck intervenes only in the short term. It all evens out. Click …

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County Signs: Turns out it isn’t the weekend yet

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Friday morning, I awakened, and for about 30 minutes, thought it was Saturday. Until I made coffee, I thought I still had Sweet ‘n’ Low. The tipoff was that TCM wasn’t running a silly comedy or a crime serial. (Inexplicably, I have grown fond of old …

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County Signs: Let’s play three …

By MONTE DUTTON Coleman Coker (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I heard, almost accidentally, words of a political analyst that struck me as useful for young athletes. “Hope alone will not win, but despair will lose every time.” Three American Legion Senior baseball teams have Laurens County players. All three had their playoff series stretched …

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County Signs: Wilder Stadium adds video scoreboard

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Clinton High School continues to upgrade its historic football stadium, the most apparent improvement being a combination score- and video board to replace the old one behind Wilder Stadium’s south end zone. New stands and a restroom building are being constructed on the visitors side. Until 1960, …

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County Signs: To everything, there is a season

By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. American Legion baseball is a slight step back. It doesn’t have the tension of high-school ball in the spring. It’s the summer. It’s supposed to be fun. It is. I’ve made quite the transition. For years, when I was away watching fast cars, I occasionally proclaimed that …

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