Well, We Missed the Good Times --- Why Not?

Brace yourselves ladies and gentlemen. During the next several weeks you will most likely be shocked.

For about a decade, we in Laurens County and surrounding areas have been hearing a lot about the prosperity the rest of the country was enjoying. It was a huge boom that left most of us feeling…………well………..feeling left out.

I’d have to describe the local economy as a recession. We lost jobs. Lots of jobs. Torrington/Timken closed. Laurens Glass closed. Clinton Mills. Watts Plant……….and so on and so forth.

Now it appears that the whole country is heading into a recession………maybe worse. So, it is just and right that our area once again buck the trend.

Brace yourselves and don’t laugh at me. Some really good news is right around the corner. We may just find ourselves in pretty good shape economically speaking while the rest of the country endures what we have become all too familiar with for years now.

And as we dig our way out of the economic basement of the country let us resolve to never take anything for granted again. Plan for the bad times and hope they never come.