Pickens to host 41st Azalea Festival
PICKENS — The beloved Pickens Azalea Festival is back for its 41st year, welcoming visitors to downtown Pickens next weekend. More »
Tetter named new Liberty police chief
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com LIBERTY — The officer who has been serving as the city of Liberty’s police More »
Veterans to help pick VA officer in advisory election
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — Beginning later this month, the county’s veterans will help select a department More »
Symbols of Easter
Icons complement most sacred holiday Tradition plays an important role in Easter celebrations for many families. Cherished traditions and symbols More »
Old-Time Weekend Jam Fest this weekend
Celebration of old-time music, Appalachian culture scheduled at Hagood Mill PICKENS — Dust off your banjo, pack your tent and More »
Courier Legal ads 3-19-25
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Following mobile home has been abandoned at: 120 Sheila Ln (lot 3), Liberty, SC 29657. There is a lien on this mobile home for rent and storage in the amount $5,000, plus any additional rent from the date of this notice. Contact Robert Howell, 864-293-2798 to claim this mobile home. After 30 days from the date of this notice, Robert Howell will apply to sell the mobile home at the Anderson County Magistrate for public sale.
Year: 1981
Make: Skyline
Model: 5I05
Serial Number: 01140141R
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SUMMONS
Police: Woman killed newborn
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
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EASLEY — An Easley woman has been charged with murder after police say she stabbed her newborn baby to death as she gave birth on Friday.
“I have been doing this for two and a half decades and I have never seen anything this gruesome,” Easley Police Chief Brandon Liner said during a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. “I’ve never seen anything this bad.”
An T. Ngo, 31, has been charged with murder/homicide by child abuse.
An arrest warrant alleges Ngo stabbed the newborn repeatedly with a metal letter opener during and after the
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Fruster steps down after 9 seasons as DWD head coach
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — For the first time in nearly a decade, Daniel High School is in search of a new head
football coach after the School District of Pickens County announced that Jeff Fruster stepped down
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Officials: Ga. woman still missing at Table Rock
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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COUNTY — A Georgia woman last seen at Table Rock State Park has been missing for more than a week.
Search efforts were initiated when the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a missing camper, according to a release from Chief Deputy Brett Barwick.
Stephanie Ann Womacks of Temple, Ga., was last seen at approximately 6 p.m. Monday, March 3, at her campsite in the White Oak camping area of Table Rock
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Roper answers fire questions from residents
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — With the state still under a burn ban as of Friday morning, firefighting in Pickens was on 
the minds of residents.
Pickens County administrator Ken Roper answered questions from residents during a Facebook Live update posted Friday morning, with county communications director Jamie Burns posing the questions to him.
A resident asked what their fire fee was being used for.
“So the fire fee was done away with a few years ago,” Roper said. “We had 13
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GCSO: Deadly force justified against Easley robbery suspect
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
GREENVILLE — The use of deadly force in a confrontation between Greenville County Sheriff’s Office deputies and the suspect in a Pickens County armed robbery earlier this year has been deemed justified.
On Sunday, March 9, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office released a briefing about the deadly officer-involved shooting of 45-year-old Sean Scates.
On Jan. 23, Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Brett Barwick issued a news release about an armed robbery that took place that morning at the Shell Station at 4931 Old Easley Bridge Road in
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Area woman takes solace in preserving ancestor’s grave
EASLEY — When Dianne Stevens decided to move to Pickens County from Massachusetts, she did so without the knowledge that she had roots in the very area she was to make her new home.
Little did she realize the profound impact that knowledge would soon have on her life. Stevens came to 
find out from a distant cousin in a letter that her great-great-great-great grandmother had lived in the area and raised a large family.
Her name was Jane “Jean” Campbell Cannon, and she was born in 1756 in Rich Hills, Charles County, Maryland. She later moved south, eventually ending up in Pickens County, where she married Russell Cannon in 1781. The couple had
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The enduring foundation of social and economic progress
The progress of humanity is founded upon moral integrity. History teaches us that nations and societies fail as they experience moral decline.
Currently, all humanity is gripped in a moral crisis. Governments and institutions are discredited by corruption and inadequacy. Societies are afflicted by the erosion of standards of right and wrong. Truth and knowledge are ignored, derided and ridiculed. Waning basic decency plagues politics and communities. These
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Read the warning label
Mark 9:43-44 “And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, 
and the fire is not quenched.”
Matthew 13:42 “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
It may have been about 1990 that I had an intensive salt craving. Walking into a local grocery, my first inclination was to indulge
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