Daily Archives: 05/03/2022
Rec center named for longtime director
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — After a year and a half of work, the Pickens Recreation Center opened on Sangamo Road in the spring of 2005.
The state-of-the-art 21,000-square-foot complex has since been home to many of the brightest young athletes of the city and now, 17 years later, it has been renamed the Cheri Terrapin Anthony Recreation Complex in honor of the city’s longtime recreation director.
Anthony, who began working at the Pickens Recreation Department in 1995 and became director in 1998, was honored Saturday at the recreation center
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‘Please don’t leave me in the dark’
Pickens fire chief asks for new truck, more openness
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — The Pickens Fire Department responds to calls with aging equipment that is prone to breakdowns and with staffing levels that haven’t changed in 
decades, according to its chief.
Fire Chief Chris Elrod spoke about his department’s needs during a budget presentation at a Pickens City Council meeting on Monday.
Finance director Donna Perry said the fire department has three full-time employees and seven part-time
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Parents sound off on ‘segregated’ lunch at meeting
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
EASLEY — Several parents spoke out during a Pickens County School Board meeting Thursday in response to a race-related school event held last month.
Pickens Middle School reportedly invited speaker Adrienne Young to come talk to minority students about “how to cope with
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County to crack down on misuse of recycling centers
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — One facet of Pickens County’s new anti litter program aims to target those who are misusing the county’s recycling centers and costing the county 
and its taxpayers money.
“We estimate $180,000 a year that’s lost by contractors not following the rules,” county administrator Ken Roper
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Pickens WWII vet receives French honor
PICKENS — Nearly 80 years after risking his life on French soil during World War II, a Pickens resident was presented last week with the highest decoration bestowed by France for his heroic efforts.
Raymond Dawkins, 96, was awarded the French Legion of Honor by Vincent Hommeril, Consul General of France for the Southeastern United States. Dawkins is now a Chevalier (knight) in the Legion of Honor.
Dawkins joins the ranks of other American recipients of the award, including President
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Legislators step into the batter’s box
Well it’s time once again, baseball fans, to calculate the batting averages of our beloved home team, the Mudville nine.
Just kidding; I meant the Pickens County legislative delegation.
With this being the close of a two-year session, it should give some kind of picture of what the boys we’ve sent to Columbia have been doing down there.
I hate to say it, but a quick glance at the statistics gives not much hope for our guys to make the playoffs.
That is, except for the star slugger in our lineup — who primarily represents Oconee County but has a small slice
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Fentanyl is still here, and something worse is coming
Fentanyl is a word you’re probably hearing on the news more and more these days.
Parents often hear the word for the first time when they find out fentanyl was the drug that killed their child.
May 10 is National Fentanyl Awareness Day.
Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid. Medical-grade fentanyl is prescribed by doctors, who carefully monitor its
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Courier Letters to the Editor 5-4-22
Weighing in on Pickens Middle issue
Dear Editor,
The Bible tells us in Proverbs to “train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Also, we know what the road of “good” intentions can lead to.
What happened at Pickens Middle School is unacceptable. Training children to think it is appropriate to separate them by race for special presentations and
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Easley softball, boys’ soccer secure region
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — With their regular seasons coming to an end last week, the Easley High School boys’ soccer and softball teams will head to the playoffs as No. 1 
seeds after clinching their respective region championships.
On the diamond, the Easley softball team was dominant down the stretch, winning eight of its last 10 games on the way to securing the Region I-4A title.
Coming off a second-place finish in 2021, the Green Wave girls sat at just 4-9 at the end of
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Multiple county squads in playoffs
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — After starting the spring sports postseason last week with lacrosse and boys’ tennis, the South Carolina high school playoffs will go into overdrive this week as baseball, softball and soccer kick off their opening rounds.
Pickens County is well represented so far this spring, with each of the four county high schools sporting multiple
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