Monthly Archives: May 2021
Police: Woman injured when hoarded gas explodes in crash
PICKENS — Deputies say a 28-year-old woman was hospitalized after evading a traffic stop when containers of hoarded gasoline in her trunk exploded following a crash.
According to a release from Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chad Brooks, a deputy in a marked patrol unit saw a 2007 Pontiac G6 traveling on Jameson Road in Pickens Thursday evening with a South Carolina license plate that
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Dillard honored at Pickens council meeting
Pickens’ own Dr. Mike Dillard was honored by Mayor Fletcher Perry and the Pickens City Council at the monthly council meeting on May 10. Dillard was recently recognized as the Pickens County EMS Medical of the Year for South Carolina. He has served as the Pickens County EMS Control Officer for 25 years and is a well-known face at AnMed Health Cannon Hospital in Pickens. Dillard was presented with a plaque recognizing his service to the community “with great appreciation of your many years of dedication and commitment to serving your community with utmost excellence.” In a news release, the city of Pickens thanked Dillard for his commitment to providing the highest standard of emergency health to those in our community. “We are incredibly appreciative for his expertise and service,” the release said. Pictured, from left, are Mayor Fletcher Perry, Kenna Dillard and Dr. Mike Dillard.
Mill announces theater offerings
PICKENS — Life has brought two men to Hagood Mill, eager to bring live, local theater to the site.
Scott Ewing has an opportunity for adults interested in theater at the mill, and Eric Kerchner brings an opportunity for 
children to perform.
Experienced or not, anyone with an interest in helping to put together live theater at Hagood Mill, either as a performer or to help back stage, is invited to the mill on Saturday to meet Ewing and fill out an interest form. Ewing will review the level
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Fleet Reserve plans Memorial Day services in downtown Six Mile
SIX MILE — Fleet Reserve Branch No. 15 will hold traditional Memorial Day services in downtown Six Mile on Monday, May 31, to honor those who have served their country and to remember those who sacrificed their lives in the line of 
service.
The day’s events will begin outside Six Mile Town Hall/Fire Station by placing the American flag at half-staff at 8 a.m. A traditional service will be held at 11:45 a.m. outside Six Mile
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Pretty lonely on the back porch
About 12 years ago, my wife Kathy started hearing a noise in our basement that sounded like a baby crying.
When I went down there to check, I found a small gray cat with a heart-shaped white spot over her heart who had 
somehow snuck into the basement and gotten trapped. It was the same cat I
had seen a few days earlier running across the driveway as I was pulling in, and I said, “Look out, you smokey little critter!” She was the color of smoke, you see.
So I rescued Smokey from the basement and gave her a bowl of milk, and we became friends.
She was a stray apparently, but she must have had a previous owner, because she was gentle and sweet — not like the feral cats who showed up on the doorstep a few months later.
Since I doubt that you remember the column I wrote about our cats a couple
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Some things you should never do
It was raining. Not the pouring down kind of rain that washes seeds out of the ground, but the soft rain of May.
It was early, and the coffee had just been made.
So I rolled out of my warm, comfortable bed and put on my old bedroom slippers to venture downstairs.
There’s nothing like that first cup of coffee.
Someone else who lives here had already gotten their first cup and was
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It’s the bee’s knees
I was in the garden planting pollinator flowers when a bee kept buzzing around my head. Its tiny body was energetically bustling through the air, searching for nectar from the perfect flower. I kept looking, trying to see if he had any knees.
“The bee’s knees” was a fanciful phrase that originated in the 18th century and referred to something that didn’t exist. I think they were right, because I couldn’t see any knees on that bee.
However, in the 1920s, a lot of silly expressions became popular, and “it’s the bee’s knees” came to mean something extraordinarily wonderful, like
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Overriding issue facing the county
Dear Editor,
The county council is in the process of drawing up the budget for next year. To me, the most overriding issue facing the county, as well as all elected leaders in our county, cities and towns, is sprawl. Not just urban sprawl from Greenville, but regional sprawl from those fleeing the northeast and Florida and moving to the Carolinas. If we do not get ahead of the things population growth is stressing, we will be eaten up. Additionally, I want to protect the quality of life of
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Relentless compassion of God
I notice when talking with certain people about Christian living, it’s common for them to lose eye contact as they start searching for a way to change the subject. Actually, this is perfectly understandable. Why? Because if someone, even if 
they are somewhat religious, has never given their heart to Jesus Christ or made the commitment to follow him, they feel uncomfortable thinking and talking about it.
Our natural mind and the Spirit of the Lord are like oil and water, as the old nature wants nothing to do with being held accountable or surrendering our will to anyone, especially to God. Conviction from the Holy Spirit is a sense
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Doing it for the kids
Quint Brown, owner of Q
and Co. Salon on Main Street in Pickens, is a sponsoring salon for Locks of Love. Recently, he helped Louise Hope secure a 10-inch donation for needy children suffering from long-term hair loss. Children receive wigs made from hair donations free of charge. The majority of the hair recipients have alopecia, an auto-immune disorder. The second highest majority of recipients have cancer.
