Daily Archives: 02/27/2024
Open Book Project has new home in Easley
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A local nonprofit dedicated to nurturing a love of reading now has “a permanent home base in Easley.”
The Open Book Project held a ribbon cutting for its new space at 213 E. 1st Ave. in Easley on Friday morning.
The Open Book Project holds quarterly fundraisers each year.
“The proceeds that we make from each of those fundraisers fund our grant recipients through our Lottery Box of Giving program,” said Samantha Jones,
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Trump takes South Carolina
STATE — In his bid to return to White House, Donald Trump secured a huge victory over the weekend with voters in 
the state — and locally — giving the former president another big endorsement over former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.
Statewide, Trump received 451,905 votes (59.8 percent) outpacing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who finished with 298,674 votes statewide (39.52 percent).
In Pickens County, the former president received 15,606 votes (67.6 percent), more than double the 7,328 votes (31.74 percent) for Haley.
Courier Obituaries 2-28-24
EMILY ‘KATE’ TURNER
SENECA — Emily “Kate” Turner, 29, of Seneca, passed away Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.
Born in Easley, she was a daughter of Donny Allan and Tonya Michelle Trammell Turner.
Kate was very creative and artistic and loved to express that through her drawings.
She also loved children, especially her nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, Kate is survived by her sisters, Christy Thompson (Paul) of Pickens, Nichole Moore of Six Mile, Trish Turner of Seneca and
Upstate native Jackson’s place in history
I’ll never forget something one of my editors at The Greenville News told me as he was assigning me to cover Jesse Jackson.
He said every time we wrote about Jesse, our phones would start ringing with angry callers threatening to cancel their subscription.
“But we’re not going to quit covering him if he’s making news,” he said.
This was around 2005. The Greenville native had long been a national
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Time to bury the hatchet
Andrew Pickens and his wife, Rebecca, lived in a log cabin that overlooked the Seneca River (now Lake Hartwell).
Following the American Revolutionary War, the land would be awarded to Gen. Andrew Pickens for his military service, and Hopewell plantation would become one of the largest plantations in the Pendleton
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Play the piano for brain health
I’ve been reading in too many places about taking steps to hold off memory and cognitive impairment, so I’ve paid 
attention to some of the ideas we can use to keep our brains active.
One idea that’s been very enticing is playing the piano and using that as a protective factor against dementia and impairment.
When I began my hunt for a piano, I quickly realized that space
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A True Sense of Place and Belonging
By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier
For Black History Month, we have focused on the book Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian 
Community, by Dr. John M. Coggeshall, an Anthropologist and Professor at Clemson University. Liberia is a historic community that dates back to the abolition of slavery here in upper Pickens County, South Carolina. Soapstone Baptist Church and Soapstone School date back to the Emancipation Proclamation, and are part of a community
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PHS hosts Charles Johnson Raider competition
PICKENS — On Saturday, Feb. 17, the Pickens High School JROTC program hosted the first-ever U.S. Army Specialist Charles Johnson Raider competition, joined by teams from the Liberty, Daniel, West-Oak and Spring 
Valley JROTC programs.
Raiders is an after-school team offered only through
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Courier Community Calendar 2-28-24
• Oyster Roast set for St. Michael’s, Easley
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church will host its annual oyster roast from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at 1200 Powdersville Road in Easley.
Proceeds from the event benefit multiple charitable organizations in Pickens County.
Attendees enjoy all-you-can-eat oysters, brunswick stew, sides and beverages (photo ID required). If oysters aren’t
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