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For decades, activists sounded the alarm about the potential toxic fallout of a dam breech at Lake Conestee. Finally, a wall to contain a failure is just about done.

The state Inspector General says nearly $1 million was misspent at Laurens County School District 55 due to mismanagement, not criminal intent.

The walk out to the dam at Lake Conestee is a short downhill/uphill, past the remains of an old mill that died decades ago. That mill is the reason this…