Monthly Archives: March 2020
Lydia Branham of Troop 2831 earns Girl Scout Gold Award
EASLEY — Lydia Branham of Girl Scout Troop 2831 in Easley recently completed her special project at Pickens County Meals on Wheels and the McKissick Center.
For her Girl Scout Gold Award, Branham decided to work with the Young at Heart Program, which provides daily planned activities and a congregate lunch for seniors.
After finding out what the seniors were interested in and what they currently have, Branham created a craft closet full of grab-and-go craft packets that contain instructions and everything the senior needs to compete a project. She had more than 70 packets ready for the seniors when they arrived on
Courier Community Calendar 3-18-20
• Vietnam vets to be honored March 29
March 29 has been set aside as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. The day will be a chance to honor all Vietnam veterans and a moment to say welcome home and thank you for your service. As Vietnam veterans came home, most were not shown the respect and honor that other veterans from other eras before and after received. Vietnam veterans are America’s greatest population of veterans, who suffered in war and are still fighting the battles of cancers and other diseases caused by Agent Orange today.
• PCMA hosts Lenten worship services
The Pickens County Ministerial Association Lenten Lunch Worship Series will continue on March 24 at Griffin Ebenezer Baptist Church, led by the Rev. Chris Gibson (Amazing Grace Lutheran
Pasta dishes are rich and filling
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
There are so many different kinds of pasta dishes and recipes for pasta itself, I couldn’t begin to list them.
You can make your own fresh pasta or buy it already made or go with dried pasta from a box.
There are different kinds of flour and other ingredients, and you can go online and watch how it’s done by hand.
But you don’t have to be an Italian chef to make the recipes featured this week, and none are so complicated you feel compelled to throw up your hands and go out for dinner.
I hope you like some of these. I still love Fettuccini Alfredo, even though I found out it isn’t served in Italy, but was created in America in the early 1900s. No matter where it came from, I call it delicious.
Courier Legal Notices 3-18-20
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to the Special Referee’s Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale in the Court of Common Pleas in the case of Pinnacle Bank, Plaintiff vs. Jerry R. Burgess a/k/a Jerry Burgess, individually, and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Richard F. Burgess a/k/a Richard Burgess; Grace E. Owens; and United States of America, Defendants, Civil Action No. 2019-CP-39-00842, the property below will be sold at public auction at the Pickens County Courthouse, 214 E. Main Street, Pickens, SC 29671, to-wit: 11:00 a.m., on the 6th day of April, 2020, to the highest bidder the following described property:
PARCEL I:
All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying and being situate in the State of South Carolina,
Courier Notice to Creditors 3-18-20
The publisher shall only be liable for an amount less than or equal to the charge for the space of the item in error in the case of errors in or omissions from any advertisement, and only for the first incorrect insertion.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES
All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on Form #371ES with the Probate Court of PICKENS COUNTY, the address of which is 222 MCDANIEL AVE., B-16 PICKENS, SC 29671, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the prescribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the
Courier Trespass Notices 3-18-20
In the state of South Carolina, trespass after notice is a misdemeanor criminal offense prohibited by section 16-11-620 for the South Carolina Code.
Those who enter upon the lands of others without the permission of the owner or manager shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor trespassing. All persons are hereby notified and warned not to hunt, fish, cut timber or trespass in any manner whatsoever upon the lands of the undersigned:
Courier Classifieds 3-18-20
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Clemson officials notified possible coronavirus case is negative
UPDATE:
The following story has been updated to notify the residents of Pickens County that the possible coronavirus case in Clemson has been deemed negative following test results.
CLEMSON — A day after the first case of the COVID-19 coronavirus was confirmed in the Upstate, 
Clemson University officials announced Monday that they were monitoring a possible case of the virus in a non-student in self-quarantine at an off-campus residence.
The school is working in conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, university spokesman Joe Galbraith said, and results from a test for the virus were set to come back within 24-48 hours.
DHEC announced on Sunday that a man in Spartanburg had tested positive for the virus, bringing the state’s total to seven
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County preparing to deal with potential outbreak
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Before Clemson University announced this week that it was monitoring a possible case of coronavirus, Pickens County Emergency Management officials had already begun preparations for the virus.
During his report to council March 2, acting county administrator Ken Roper said county employees and the Emergency Management department have no cause for alarm regarding COVID-19, the official name for the new strain of coronavirus that has been spreading rapidly worldwide.
It’s important that the region works together to deal with the virus, Roper said.
“We’ve already been in contact with our neighboring counties to try to see what they’re doing, to make sure we’re cooperating regionally,” he said. “Whatever the outcome of this may be, whether
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Easley man gets 25 years in federal prison
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
GREENVILLE — An Easley man will serve 25 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.
Bruce Allen Howland, 58, was sentenced after pleading guilty to violating federal drug distribution laws, Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced March 4.
Crick said evidence presented at the change of plea hearing showed that on Feb. 28, 2019, two confidential sources in Pickens County, under the supervision of law enforcement, placed recorded calls to Howland and
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