Daily Archives: 12/26/2024
County breaks ground on EMS facility
COUNTY — Officials held a groundbreaking ceremony for Pickens County’s new emergency services facility Thursday afternoon.
The facility will be located behind the county’s administration building on McDaniel Avenue in Pickens and is funded in part by American Rescue Plan Act funds.
County administrator Ken Roper said the facility is “essential.”
“We’re not spending the taxpayers’ dollars here on a monument,” he said. “We’re not spending taxpayers’ dollars
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PSI breaks ground on Easley office
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A Georgia-based mechanical contracting company broke ground last week on an Easley facility that will employ around 70 people.
Place Services Inc. (PSI) held a groundbreaking Wednesday afternoon for its future location on Powdersville Road.
“This is like déjà vu all over again for us, because we just did our groundbreaking for our new building in Canton, Ga., so we already had the shovels and the hard hats,” PSI chief financial officer Todd Guthrie said. “It’s just really, really an honor to look at this new opportunity that’s
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Marker documents bank building’s history in Six Mile
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
SIX MILE — For much of its existence, a building on Six Mile’s North Main Street has served the community as a bank.
That service is reflected on a historic marker on the building that was unveiled on Dec. 17.
“Back in 2016, the town of Six Mile dedicated this site as a historic landmark,” Six Mile Mayor James Atkinson said outside the bank, which today operates as a branch of Pickens Savings and Loan.
The Bank of Six Mile was chartered on Aug. 12, 1919, he
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