Monthly Archives: October 2022
Historic Soapstone Baptist Church and grounds permanently protected
PICKENS — The six-acre property home to the historic Soapstone Baptist Church in Pickens County has been permanently protected through a conservation easement.
In addition to the church’s leadership, partners instrumental in the important conservation project include the South Carolina Conservation Bank, Upstate Forever and the Upstate Land Conservation Fund.
Soapstone Baptist Church was established more than 150 years ago in Liberia, a small community settled by formerly enslaved African
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SLED looking at deadly officer-involved shooting
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — State authorities are investigating after a carjacking suspect was shot to death in an incident involving local law enforcement last 
week in Easley.
Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the man as 26-year-old Thomas Christopher Wheeler of Latham Street in Easley.
Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chuck James said in a release that
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This week in FOOTBALL FRENZY
PICKENS BLANKS BEREA FOR FIRST REGION WIN 5B ,LIONS WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT REGION TITLE 2B, WAVE CAN’T KEEP PACE WITH WESTSIDE 3B, >LIBERTY SHUT OUT BY LANDRUM 4B, TIGER COME BACK TO BEAT SYRACUSE 7B
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Early voting now available
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — With early voting now open and Election Day quickly approaching on Nov. 8, Pickens County voters have plenty of decisions to make at the polls.
Democrat Claiborne Linvill and Republican Brad White will square off in a race to decide who fills the seat of Ensley Feemster, who decided
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Former deputy arrested on drug charge
EASLEY — An Easley man and former Greenville County Sheriff’s Office deputy is accused of providing drugs to a confidential informant.
Nicholas Craig Ison, 22, was arrested by S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents on
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Account tied to council hopeful had history of racist messages
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — A social media account registered to Republican Pickens County Council nominee Brad White used racist and homophobic slurs and criticized Clemson businesses on numerous occasions over the past 22 months, including calling employees of a new downtown 
hotel that hires workers with intellectual disabilities “lazy,” a review from The Journal showed.
The email and phone number registered to Twitter user @Patriot76472267’s account matched White’s office cellphone and business email at
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Fellow Republicans quiet after offensive tweets come to light
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — Republican officials had little to say Monday in response to a report published in The Journal over the weekend detailing racist and homophobic tweets posted by a Republican Pickens County Council candidate’s social media “burner” account.
Brad White said on Friday the tweets calling others “coons” and other attacks from the now-deleted Twitter user @Patriot76472267 were not his words and that “I didn’t make those.”
“I didn’t authorize him to make those very subjective and very horrible comments,” White said of the unidentified Charleston resident he
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Porter’s Chapel event to celebrate 190 years
PICKENS — Porter’s Chapel will host a 190th anniversary celebration on Nov. 5 featuring a yard sale, bake sale, holiday bazaar, hot dog plates and gospel singing. The event will begin at 8 a.m. and run until everything is sold.
Porter’s Chapel is located at 152 E. Preston McDaniel Road in Pickens.
