Daily Archives: 05/24/2022
Man arrested near elementary school
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Several Pickens schools were placed in lockdown Thursday afternoon after a man was seen near Hagood Elementary School with what was 
originally believed to be a gun.
The incident occurred at 1:04 p.m., according to a release from the Pickens Police Department.
Pickens Police Chief Randal Beach said an elementary school student spotted the man in the woodline near Hagood Elementary School and “did the right thing.”
“They saw something,” he said. “They believed that they saw a firearm in the person’s hand. The student did the
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Historic Green Wave season comes to an end against York
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Falling behind 5-0 in the fourth inning against York on May 18, the Easley Green Wave softball team seemed to have lost all the momentum they had built on their historic playoff run.
However, the Green Wave proved to have much of the same fight that brought them to that point down the stretch, with senior Maggie Spence cutting the Cougar lead to just two runs as the teams entered the final frame.
Heading to bat in the bottom of the seventh with the game on the line, Easley went down in order to end its season in a 5-3 loss.
“I’m proud of them. They didn’t give up,” Easley head coach Trish Spence said after the game, fighting
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Scholarship award winner
The Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Committee recently announced Caroline Lucas as this year’s selection for the Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Award. A graduating Pickens High School senior, Lucas will receive a $1,000 scholarship to put toward her college education. “Congratulations to Caroline for representing our basketball program and for her perseverance to achieve success on and off the court,” the scholarship committee said.
Freedom is not free
Memorial means to “remember,” and every year on the last Monday in May, we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives in the line of active military service while protecting and defending the country they loved. For those of you that have family members and close friends who died fighting for our freedoms, we can know they perished for a cause greater than their own.
What do you think about when you hear the words Memorial Day, and does it have personal significance? Unfortunately, for some Americans, the true meaning of Memorial Day has been seemingly lost. It’s common for
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What ever happened to customer service?
It was a very long time ago, and though it may sound like a fairy tale today, there was once something called customer service.
In those olden days, customer service meant that if you bought something from a company and something went wrong, you could call and a human being 
answered the phone.
There was no recorded robotic message from an inhuman being or android, just something known as the human voice.
This voice was activated from within the human’s brain and was programmed to respond to a ringing phone by
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Do you think you’re old?
Dear Editor,
I’m old. How old? Old enough to remember phone booths that you walked into and shut the door. Only a dime to make local call. Had to dial a number, not push buttons.
Old enough to remember when TV was black and white. And 21 inches was considered big screen. Movies were 75 cents, as were haircuts. Movies were often
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BHSPC awards two scholarships
PICKENS — Two Pickens High School seniors have earned scholarships from Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County.
Brooke Smith won the Charlie Hagood Scholarship. She plans to pursue an undergraduate degree in biological sciences at Clemson University and continue on to become a physician’s assistant.
Jesi Turner won the Dan Sharpe Scholarship. She plans to pursue an undergraduate degree in health science at North Greenville University and go on to
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AG: Pickens man distributed child sexual abuse material
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A Pickens man is facing multiple charges connected to the sexual exploitation of a minor, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
Matthew Leon Arotin, 62, was arrested on May 13 and is charged with six counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, Wilson said in a release.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office made
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Man arrested on multiple drug charges
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A man is facing multiple charges, including trafficking methamphetamine, following his arrest last week at an Easley hotel, according to a release 
from the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.
Gregory Paul Simon Jr. was arrested at the Days Inn Hotel in Easley on May 18 after members of the PCSO’s Community Action Team and agents with the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services found
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Easley CEO indicted
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
SCRANTON, Pa. — An Easley man and renewable energy company CEO was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania last week after being accused of fraudulently convincing people to invest more than $1 million in his company.
James Abrams, 39, was indicted May 17 on charges of wire and mail fraud, identity theft, money laundering, unlawful transactions, obstruction of justice and false statements, according to John C. Gurganus, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
The indictment alleges that Abrams, the owner and CEO of renewable energy company EthosGen LLC, provided forged documents and false information to
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