Daily Archives: 08/17/2021
Ex-EHS resource officer charged with solicitation
Kelly a former Clemson football player
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A former Easley Police Department officer and Clemson University football player faces a number of charges, including solicitation of a minor, 
after crimes authorities allege occurred while he served as a school resource officer.
State Law Enforcement Division officers arrested 38-year-old Yusef Kelly on Monday, SLED spokesman Tommy Crosby said in a news release.
Kelly is charged with solicitation of a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and disseminating
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HS football season kickoff pushed back
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — The 2021 high school sports season was set to kick off
this week, however, after the School District of Pickens County’s decision to go virtual, fans of the four county high schools will have to wait another week to see their teams in action.
On Friday, the Pickens County School Board held an emergency meeting about the
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Police seeking tips after 2 bodies found in Central
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found near a roadway in Central on Monday 
morning.
Pickens County deputy coroner Chad Hope identified the victims as Alex Mitchell Moore, 25, of West Lane in Clemson, and Skylar Wolfgang Cary, 24, of North Main Street in Columbia. He listed their deaths as homicides and said autopsies were
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School district goes virtual as COVID surges
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
EASLEY — The School District of Pickens County announced Friday its schools would temporarily shift to virtual instruction after a surge of COVID-19 cases in the first two weeks of classes.
The Pickens County School Board called an emergency meeting Friday and met in executive session for more than an hour before making the announcement.
Darian Byrd, the district’s director of communications and virtual learning, presented data comparing cases in the 2020-21 school year with the ongoing
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Six confirmed virus deaths in county last week
COLUMBIA — As cases of the delta variant of COVID-19 continue to grow across the state, Pickens County added six confirmed deaths related to the virus over the past week.
According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, there were six confirmed deaths in the one-week period from last Tuesday to Monday, when the latest numbers were available.
Pickens County remains the worst of the state’s 46 counties in infection rate, with 14,681.1 cases per
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Easley appoints Harmon as part-time administrator
EASLEY — Easley officials appointed a part-time city administrator this month to serve until the council hires a full-time administrator.
During their Aug. 9 meeting, city council members unanimously passed a resolution appointing Dennis Harmon as the city’s interim part-time administrator.
The resolution was needed “to clean up paperwork,” Mayor Butch Womack said.
Former city administrator Stephen Steese took a job in Bluffton earlier this summer.
Harmon served as Goose Creek’s city administrator for 38 years and has also served as the city administrator for Manning and
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Senior-laden Blue Flame topple 5A foe TL Hanna
PICKENS — The Pickens High School Lady Blue Flame volleyball team, which features eight seniors, downed Class 5A powerhouse T.L. Hanna of Anderson last week in the friendly confines of Coach Peggy Harden Anthony Gymnasium on the Pickens High School campus.
It was the preseason opener for the Pickens squad.
The Aug. 13 scrimmage pitted two teams who played in their respective state championships last season. The Lady Blue Flame
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AnMed restricting visitation
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
PICKENS — AnMed Health has announced a new visitation policy due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 in the area.
Beginning this Monday, all AnMed Health locations are limiting visitation to one person per patient because of COVID-19 concerns, according to a news 
release. This includes hospitals, emergency rooms, physician offices and outpatient clinics, including AnMed Health Cannon in Pickens. The release said exceptions will be made for pediatric patients, end-
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Common sense and COVID-19
Well, it’s been a quiet summer here at the Barnett Property. I have eradicated the poison oak in the backyard, choked out the English ivy in the trees and battled back the briars in the azaleas.
We have continued to stave off the coronavirus, although I wish people would quit celebrating the end of the pandemic, because it ain’t nearly over yet. More about that later.
We did finally make it down to Stone Mountain to visit my mom, who just turned 96. Except for having to use a walker to get around, she hasn’t changed a bit in the past 40 years.
She’s doing well a year and a half after losing her husband of nearly 72 years, my dad, Bobby D. Barnett. But even
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Thee, thy and thou
Our language is constantly changing. New words are added, other words deleted. The gender issue has made us aware of how language can change our perceptions. The primary purpose of any language is to communicate. Does it really matter if you dangle a participle? Will anyone care if you split an infinitive?
Star Trek hurled us into space in 1966 when Capt. James T. Kirk began each episode with the famous opening that ended with the words “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Grammarians, appalled at the split infinitive, said the line should read “to go boldly where no man has gone before.”
However, in 1966, the women’s liberation movement was in full swing, and more people took offense at the word
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