Monthly Archives: August 2024
GET INTO A FRENZY!!!
After eight long months of waiting, football is back in Pickens County, and nobody covers it better than the Pickens County Courier in our weekly FOOTBALL FRENZY. The award-winning section begins this week only in the Courier and includes previews, rosters and schedules for all four Pickens County high schools. To its time to get into a frenzy, a FOOTBALL FRENZY that is.
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No charges filed in Six Mile killing
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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SIX MILE — No charges have been filed in the days after a shooting that killed a Pickens man in Six Mile on Sunday evening.
Pickens County chief deputy coroner Andrew Wilson identified the victim as 49-year-old Steven Lee Basquette.
In a news release issued Monday evening, Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy
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Man charged with murder in Easley shooting
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A 21-year-old Simpsonville resident has been charged with murder in the shooting death of an Easley man 
earlier this month.
Michah Javon Duckett was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder in the killing of 21-year-old Corey Rider Vickery of 123 Donna Lane.
Pickens County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to 123 Donna Lane in
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Couple dead in possible murder-suicide
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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MARIETTA — Two people were found dead in northern Pickens County last week after what authorities said was a possible murder-suicide.
In a release issued Wednesday, Aug. 14, Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chad Brooks said the PCSO and the Pickens County Coroner’s Office were investigating after
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SDPC students outperform state in testing results
COUNTY — The South Carolina Department of Education released performance results for the 2023-24 school year last week, and the School District of Pickens County once again stood out for its high test scores.
According to a news release issued by the school district, despite the district’s pupil-in-poverty rating remaining higher (64.3%) than the state’s pupil-in-poverty rating (62.4%) last school year,
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Restoration complete for iconic Pickens water tower
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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PICKENS — An iconic and eye-catching part of the Pickens city skyline has been preserved and restored.
During his report to officials during the Aug. 12 Pickens City Council meeting, city administrator Tim O’Briant said the work to restore and repaint the water tower behind Main Street has
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Upstate men face felony charges for exploiting minors
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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STATE — An Easley man faces charges connected with the sexual exploitation of minors, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said last week.
Brett Kenneth Willis, 27, was arrested on Aug. 14 by the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, Wilson said.
Willis is charged with 10 counts of third-degree sexual
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Central Tigers host inaugural meet and greet
CENTRAL — High School football officially kicks off in the Upstate this week, but the stars of tomorrow are gearing up for their season as well.
Long before players win state titles at Daniel High School, they’re putting in work in the local Central Tigers youth football program.
Residents were able to meet the 2024 teams Thursday night at
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Vice presidents can sometimes surprise us
Calvin Coolidge served as vice president to President Warren G. Harding. He had little to do except for presiding over the 
Senate.
Coolidge kept an $8-a-day suite at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., and dined out often. When Coolidge was asked why he attended so many social
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Courier Letters to the Editor 8-21-24
Study our past to avert future crisis
Dear Editor,
Much has already been said about the increasingly dangerous polarization of our society, but in rereading Bruce Catton’s excellent Civil War account of the Army of the Potomac (Doubleday & Co., 1952) it is clear that we find ourselves today on a
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