Daily Archives: 01/05/2022
Six Mile OKs closing costs for children’s nature walk
By Lauren Pierce
Courtesy The Journal
lpierce@upstatetoday.com
SIX MILE — Six Mile Town Council approved a final reading last week to spend no more than $15,000 from the town’s general fund for closing costs on 65 acres gifted to the town for a children’s nature walk.
Located off Six Mile Highway adjacent to Six Mile Elementary School, the land was gifted by the late Conrad Ardell Bryson’s estate for
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Death ruled justifiable homicide
Four arrested in connection with Piedmont man’s killing
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — Several men face charges in connection with a fatal shooting last month, but none have been charged with murder, according to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.
On Dec. 19, deputies responded to a disturbance call at 346 Stewart Gin Road in Liberty.
A man’s body was found in the yard with an apparent gunshot wound. The Pickens County
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Ex-teacher charged with sexual battery
PICKENS — A former School District of Pickens County teacher was arrested this week after being charged with sexual battery with a student.
In addition to a count of sexual battery with a student aged 16-17, Katherine Folger Pelfrey, 34, of Clemson, also faces a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was arrested Monday and released from the Pickens County Detention Center on a combined $10,000 surety bond the following day.
An arrest warrant alleges Pelfrey met the victim “at various locations” and took him to her
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State marks new COVID case high
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
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COLUMBIA — On the last day of 2021, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 8,882 new confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19, which was the agency’s highest single day of cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
The previous record was 7,686 cases on Jan. 6, 2021. No more recent numbers had been released by press time Tuesday, as the agency did not report numbers Monday because of the New Year holiday.
“If South Carolinians don’t take actions now to prevent further spread,
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Deputies look for robbery suspects
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is seeking two suspects who robbed an Easley convenience store last week.
According to a release from the sheriff’s office, deputies responded to the Spinx convenience store at 4283 Calhoun Memorial Highway in Easley in the early morning
hours of Dec. 29 about a reported armed robbery.
A cashier told deputies two people entered the store brandishing a handgun, the release said.
Before fleeing on foot, the two people
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2 killed in early morning crash
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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EASLEY — Two Travelers Rest residents were killed in a single-car accident near Easley early on New Year’s Day.
Pickens County deputy coroner Heather Harrison identified the victims as Randy Jerome Hill, 29, of Old Buncombe Road and Stephanie
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Local nonprofit collecting pajamas for the elderly
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — A local nonprofit is collecting pajamas to help keep area senior citizens warm this winter.
Members of Warmth and Comfort for the Elderly Upstate SC use their crochet skills to provide warm items for nursing home patients,
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Six Mile park construction to pick up
Six Mile town clerk Rita Martin said last week the town is working with two engineers and an architect on design plans for the Six Mile Community Park on Main Street. “The first thing we’re going to start doing is the pavilion,” she said. “And we’ve got drawings, architectural drawings, but the holidays have sort of put a stop there. But hopefully, once the year gets rolling, hopefully we’ll actually get to start on that. We’ve not actually constructed anything out there, but if you take a look, you can see little markers and where they’ve cut limbs off of trees to actually be ready to have it start to go up.”
Clemson requiring masks in all buildings for spring
By Lauren Pierce
Courtesy The Journal
lpierce@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — Clemson University is now requiring face masks inside all university buildings statewide for the spring semester “until 
further notice,” the school announced in a news release Monday.
This requirement does not include those who are alone in spaces such as private workspace,
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Clemson school mask ordinance fails
Doc: Record number turn out for testing at Nettles
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
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CLEMSON — An updated mask ordinance for schools inside Clemson city limits failed in a split vote Monday.
A push from Councilman Fran McGuire for the action fell after dissenting votes from Mayor Robert Halfacre and Councilmen John Ducworth, John Fulmer and Bob Brookover.
“I think we need this,” McGuire said when talking about his proposal to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and its more transmissible omicron variant. “It makes me more confident we can
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