Monthly Archives: July 2023
Courier Notice to Creditors 7-26-23
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 (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.
Estate: Wallace Elmer Smith
Courier Legals Notices 7-26-23
SUMMONS
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF PICKENS
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
C.A. NO. 2023-CP-39-00430
Roger Moorehead, Plaintiff, v. Dawson Cagle and Rodney Cagle, Defendants.
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at this office at Post Office Box 35, Anderson, South Carolina, 29622,
Easley names new administrator
EASLEY — The current utilities director for the city of Camden will become Easley’s new city administrator.
In a release issued Friday, Easley officials announced the hiring of Tom Couch. City council approved Couch’s hiring in a special called meeting the previous day.
“Easley is a place unlike any other to work and live, beaming with citizens who are sincerely passionate about our city,” Easley Mayor Butch Womack said in the release. “City council took the task of choosing a new city administrator very seriously, as it was important to find an administrator
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Tax-free weekend planned Aug. 4-6
STATE — The S.C. Department of Revenue (DOR) has announced the dates of August’s tax-free weekend.
Computers, clothes, school supplies and other items can be purchased free of sales tax during the 72-hour holiday that begins Friday, Aug. 4.
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Hearing set in school district book ban suit
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
PICKENS — A hearing has been set on the federal lawsuit filed against the School District of Pickens County for a book school board trustees 
initially banned last fall.
The preliminary injunction hearing will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the J. Waties Waring Judicial Center in Charleston. Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks will oversee the hearing.
The Pickens County Branch NAACP is asking the court to nullify an ongoing public school book ban
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Roper: Trump rally chance for agencies to work together
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pickens earlier this month was an opportunity for the county government to show off how well it collaborates with other agencies, according to county administrator Ken Roper.
The rally attracted tens of thousands of people to Pickens to see Trump, with attendees starting to line up in the early-morning hours to grab a good spot to see the former president speak that afternoon.
Roper discussed the rally during county council’s July 10 meeting.
“An event happened in Pickens County on July 1,” he said. “You may have heard about it. That event was, despite what your political leanings are, despite who you
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New bluegrass festival this weekend
PICKENS — It’s been a very busy month in Pickens County, kicked off by the city’s annual 4th of July celebration, complete with presidential
rally and at least 50,000 in attendance.
Wilson Pickins Promotions, along with the Hagood Historic Mill Site, generous investors and sponsors, are
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Know what’s opinionation and what ain’t
After reading Dr. Cloer’s stories on the Appalachian dialect a couple weeks ago, my inner Scots-Irish, long buried in my subconscious, re-emerged, and before I knowed it, I was writin’ thataway. My ancestors come down the Great Wagon Road, like many of y’all’s, before heading out to Tennessee and Arkansas. This story has nothin’ to do with that, but that’s how come it come out like this. I’ll be back to normal next week — I thank. So here goes:
It was purt nigh 33 yars ago this summer, I reckon, when me and a feller name Mike Gallagher was out in the woods ep above Wahaller 
ookin’ to talk to a feller who’d done clumb up a tree to protest the gov’ment fixin’ to cut down way too many trees, accordin’ to his figgerin’.
Now, I didn’t know Mike Gallagher from Adam’s housecat and still don’t, ‘cept I hear him once’t
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And then there were none
The first book to be banned in America was written by Thomas Morton, an English businessman, entrepreneur, lawyer and poet, who arrived 
in the colonies in 1624 with a boatload of Puritans. He settled in what is now Quincy, Mass.
Morton, considered a “dandy,” adapted to his new surroundings and founded the Merrymount
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Do others respect your relationship with God?
The Christian and the non-Christian are supposed to be different. In fact, so different, the Bible says that once a person becomes spiritually transformed, they become an entirely new creation. This includes the potential for their minds to be renewed into a way of thinking that is 
much more in line with God than the natural world.
The born-again followers of Christ are considered His disciples, while those who have not yet had this spiritual experience remain in bondage, serving the dark side within their default
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