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Christmas parades to begin this week
By Elizabeth Whiten
Staff Reporter
liz@thepccourier.com
COUNTY – It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas as merchants and homeowners are putting up their trees, covered in light along with decorations galore.
As the calendar inches closer to Christmas Day, many of the Pickens County municipalities will be hosting their annual Christmas parades.
Parades will kick off with the City of Clemson and its annual Christmas Parade on Thursday, Dec. 5, beginning at 6 p.m. on College Ave.
On that same night, the town of Six Mile will host it’s Old-Fashioned Christmas starting a 6 p.m. The event will center
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County staff still discussing Helene lessons
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Pickens County staff are continuing to discuss ways the county can better respond to future emergency situations, six weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall.
County administrator Ken Roper discussed that and a couple of other hurricane-related topics during a Facebook Live video update Friday morning.
On Monday, Nov. 18, county staff and outside partners held a meeting at the county’s emergency operations center to go
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Lions’ Williams captures second XC state championship
By Eric Sprott
Courtesy The Journal
sports@upstatetoday.com
NEWBERRY — With roughly 900 meters to go in the final cross-country meet of her high school career, Ashby Williams assumed she was in a race for second place Friday morning.
As it turns out, the day ultimately belonged to the Daniel High School senior.
After seemingly jockeying for second place with Nora Brahim of Bishop England, Williams quickly made up ground against frontrunner Daya Ross of Wren at the Class 4A State championship meet at The Farm at Newberry College.
Ferociously closing the gap in the final 400 meters, Williams passed Ross as they neared the finish line, as the Lions’ senior
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Red Devils win inaugural Liberty Tip-Off tourney
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
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LIBERTY — Trailing 25-19 at halftime of its Liberty Tip-Off tournament championship game with Greer Middle College, the Liberty High School boys’ basketball team knew there was still a battle ahead if they wanted to win the tournament’s inaugural crown, with Red Devil head coach Brenden Marcell preaching the importance of playing under control as they prepared to come out of the locker room.
“I told them that the team with the most composure is going to win this game,” Marcell said. “I felt like in the first half we
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God loves unity
When we read, in Matthew 22:36-40, about our Lord being questioned by the Pharisees as to which is the greatest commandment in the law, He answers, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your 
mind. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. Everything in the Law and the prophets hangs on these two commandments.”
So, Christ is telling us, that if all God’s laws had to be summarized and if He had only one commandment, it would be this: that we are to love God and each
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Blue Ridge Bank opens new Pickens branch
PICKENS — Blue Ridge Bank recently held the grand opening of its new branch at 628 Ann St. in Pickens.
The office will operate from a temporary building while construction is underway on a 3,239-square-foot bank branch on the same lot.
The branch office follows the successful opening of its loan office in Pickens in 2022. Blue Ridge Bank is headquartered in
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