Monthly Archives: April 2023
Bestselling author coming to Easley
EASLEY — New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds will visit the Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in Easley next month.
At the moderated discussion, scheduled for 7 p.m. May 5, Reynolds will discuss his new book “Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel,” take questions from the audience and be available for a book
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Courier Community Calendar
• UWC to host spring market on April 22
All are invited to a spring market this Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The event will be in the Lifeline Building at United Wesleyan Church, located at 738 Rice Road in Easley, with free admission. The market will feature a silent auction and a variety of local vendors, door prizes, raffles, bake sale and breakfast and lunch items available to purchase. All proceeds will go to the church’s Operation Christmas Child shoebox ministry to help send shoeboxes filled with gifts to children around the world while sharing the love of Jesus Christ, one shoebox at a time.
• County Republicans to hold convention
The Pickens County Republican Convention will be held on April 22 at Southern Wesleyan University. Delegates can check in beginning at
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YMCA hosting prayer breakfast
PICKENS — The Pickens YMCA is hosting a prayer breakfast on Tuesday, April 25th at 10:30 a.m. inthe Miracle Building at East PickensBaptist Church, Hwy. 8. Make plans to attend thisprayer breakfast by bringing one food item to share with other attendees and to praytogether. For further information, contact the Front Desk at the Pickens Y.
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Courier Trespass Notices 4-19-23
In the state of South Carolina, trespass after notice is a misdemeanor criminal offense prohibited by section 16-11-620 for the South Carolina Code.
Those who enter upon the lands of others without the permission of the owner or manager shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor trespassing. All persons are hereby notified and warned not to hunt, fish, cut timber or trespass in any manner whatsoever upon the lands of
Courier Notice to Creditors 4-19-23
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES
All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on Form #371ES with the Probate Court of PICKENS COUNTY, the address of which is 222 MCDANIEL AVE., B-16 PICKENS, SC 29671, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the prescribed form
Courier Legal Notices 4-19-23
SUMMONS
In the Court of Common Pleas
State of South Carolina
County of Pickens
Case Number 2022-CP-39-01433
Tammie Rae Carter and Joshua Carter, Plaintiffs, -vs- Tasha Bowers McAlister, Defendant.
To Defendant Tasha Bowers McAlister
A lawsuit has been filed against you.
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a
DAR to honor area newspaper pioneer
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — A local nonprofit organization is set to honor an 18th-century newspaper pioneer later this month.
The Fort Prince George chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host a public dedication event for a historical marker for John Miller, who emigrated to Charleston in 1783 from London and served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina.
Miller died from the flu in November 1807, and his body is buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery in Clemson on land he owned after then-Gov. Ben Guerard granted some 640 acres on the Eighteen Mile Creek and allowed the Hopewell Congregation to build a new sanctuary on it, according to a DAR news release. The ceremony is scheduled to happen at the cemetery at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 23.
Printing History
A lengthy DAR news release on Miller said his newspaper career began when he was just 15 in Great Britain, where he was fined and arrested at least five times for seditious libel for his criticisms of the government and King George III.
“He stuck to his convictions that everyone had a right to know what their government was doing,” the release said. “This brush with the law did not deter Miller.”
Miller learned the newspaper and printing trade in 1760 from his future father-in-law and started the London Evening Post nine years later, the release said. He reported on the First Continental Congress in 1774 and called on the British public to support the American colonists.
He eventually connected with South Carolina statesman Henry Laurens and arrived in Philadelphia in January 1783 with the intention to get into agriculture, but the DAR said Miller “couldn’t turn down the South Carolina delegates’ request to serve as the state’s first printer.”
He printed South Carolina’s laws and started the state’s first daily newspaper, called the SC Gazette and General Advertiser. In 1790, Miller was appointed to a commission to start a government for the newly formed Pendleton County with Andrew Pickens, for which Miller was unanimously chosen to serve as clerk.
In January 1807, he started Miller’s Weekly Messenger, making it the first newspaper in the region, according to the DAR.
