Monthly Archives: August 2023
End nearing for school district book ban lawsuit?
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
COUNTY — A months-long legal journey centered around antiracist literature in the School District of Pickens County could be coming to an end after the district filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough LLP filed the motion last week on behalf of the school district and requested an oral argument, according to court records.
The lawsuit, filed in April by the Pickens County Branch NAACP along with three sets of parents with children in the district, stemmed from the Pickens County School Board’s
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Dump truck kills moped driver
LIBERTY — A Liberty woman died Monday after the moped she was driving was hit by a dump truck.
Pickens County chief deputy coroner Andrew Wilson identified the victim as 31-year-old
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PS&L announces promotions, state honor for employee
PICKENS — The Pickens Savings and Loan Board of Directors recently announced two promotions. Harold Alexander has been promoted to executive vice president, and Tracey Brock is the bank’s new vice president.
Alexander is the senior lender and loan department manager, and Brock is responsible for consumer lending and loan department operations.
“We are very fortunate to have Tracey and Harold on our team,” PS&L president
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Easley woman hit, killed by vehicle
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — An Easley woman died Friday after being hit by a vehicle.
Pickens County deputy coroner Tommy Page identified the victim as Donna Brown, 62, of Brookway Drive.
The accident took place on U.S. Highway 123 at Williams Avenue at 8 a.m. Friday, he said.
Brown, a pedestrian, was pronounced dead at the scene and died of blunt force trauma, Page said.
The Easley Police Department is investigating.
Pickens County Council discusses workforce childcare task force
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Pickens County Council members recently discussed workforce childcare issues in the county and what role, if any, council 
should play in that discussion moving forward.
The discussion came before the vote on the council’s consent agenda during its July 10 meeting.
Councilwoman Claiborne Linvill asked for “Workforce/Childcare Task Force” to be put on the
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IN FULL SWING
SC District 1 off to hot start in Senior League World Series
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — After four days of play at the Senior League World Series, the bracket is beginning to thin out, and host S.C. District 1 is in a great position to advance to the United States final.
District 1 opened tournament play at the J.B. “Red” Owens Complex in Easley on Saturday taking on the Central regional champion Burbank
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Councilman weighs in on Trump rally costs
I read last week’s article about the Trump rally and the costs of the rally. Let me add some clarity.
Lindsay Graham asked the city of Pickens if President Trump could speak at the Independence Day Celebration. The city agreed. People like the city administrator Charlene Carter, Chief Randal Beach, Davey Hiott and Barry Crawford (Market at the Mill) worked with Team Trump
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Calibrating my new AI partner
Most of America’s problems could be solved by the use of an Electromagnetic Alternative Reality Rerouter.
That’s a device that would beam out waves that would align a new set of synaptic connections in everyone’s brains that would instantly enable them to understand why the people they disagree with think the way they do. And vice-versa.
Perhaps then we would discover that there’s really no one to “save America” from but our own
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Honest with God and ourselves
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of 
information include a person’s actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, convictions and things that are going on all around us.
Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as mental and emotional stress when an individual
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Where is Capt. Molly?
Margaret Cochran was a little rough around the edges, but then, she led a pretty rough life. Born in November 1751, she was only 5 years old 
when the Delaware and Shawnee tribes raided her family’s farm. Her father was killed and her mother was kidnapped, and with no one to ransom her, she was never heard from again.
Newly orphaned, “Molly” and her brother, John, went to live with their uncle. When Molly was
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