‘Long overdue’
Monument to Andrew Pickens to highlight Legacy Square By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com PICKENS — Those passing by Legacy More »
Easley thrift store aims to help others
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com EASLEY — The operator of DH Tiny Homes Thrift Store hopes his small store More »
America’s top chocolate shop has local roots
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com GREENVILLE — A business owned by a Pickens resident recently received national recognition. Last More »
Local municipalities plan Fourth of July events
COUNTY — With the nation getting ready to observe its 249th Independence Day, people from around Pickens County will have More »
Banjo Extravaganza is July18-19
PICKENS — The Banjo Extravaganza Festival returns to the Hagood Mill Historic Site on Friday, July 18, and Saturday, July More »
Soapstone plans return of fish fry fundraiser April 1
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A popular fish fry fundraiser that benefits a historic church is returning at least one more time.
Soapstone Baptist Church will hold a fish fry fundraiser from 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 1, according to a news release from John Boyanoski with Complete PR.
Soapstone Baptist Church was founded by freed slaves in Pickens’ Liberia community.
The fish frys were a brainchild of Mable Owens Clarke, who told her mother on her deathbed that she would not let the
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Top-ranked Daniel outlasts No. 2 Patriots in home opener
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — With 11 minutes left in the top-ranked Daniel High School boys’ soccer team’s Class 3A Upper State championship rematch with second-ranked Powdersville on Wednesday, forward Eddie Merck blew by the Patriots’ defense in what seemed like a surefire goal-scoring situation.
However, Merck pulled the trigger just seconds too late, allowing Powdersville keeper Luke Bramblett to make the save and keep things tied
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EHS looking for new boys’ hoops coach
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Five years after bringing in former Tusculum College coach Mike Jones to lead the Easley High School boys’ basketball team, the Green Wave are once again on the search for a new coach, according to a job listing posted by the School District of Pickens County on Feb. 28.
The listing, which says the school is looking for someone with coaching experience, comes after a tough season that saw Easley finish 6-18 with Jones only coaching the first half of the season before being absent for “personal reasons,” according to Easley athletic director Gil Payne. Assistant coach Brian Smith
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Red Devils can’t keep up with Palmetto
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — With region play opening up on Friday, the Liberty High School baseball team hosted Palmetto on Monday night hoping to build some momentum.
Instead, the Red Devils were plagued by mistakes throughout the night on the way to a 13-2 season-opening loss in five innings.
“Things just kind of piled up on us,” first-year Liberty head coach Trey Ulmer said. “I thought our pitchers did a good job throwing strikes at times tonight, but we
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Easley boys finish 2nd in state tournament
Led by head coach Eugene Jolley, the Easley Parks and Recreation Department’s 14U boys’ basketball all-star team participated recently in the 2023 South Carolina Athletic Programs (SCAP) basketball tournament in Pickens. The boys started the weekend off strong with a 43-23 win against East Columbia in the first round on Saturday. The victory sent them to the second round, where they fell to Florence, 40-10, but the boys were able to move to the consolation bracket, where they beat Charleston Peninsula 52-44. The boys moved on to the championship game on Sunday with a rematch against Florence. Despite playing hard, they came up short once again, falling 47-32 to end their season.
Hunters who harvest a tagged coyote can earn free lifetime license
COLUMBIA — The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) released 16 more tagged coyotes statewide recently as part of the Coyote Harvest Incentive Program.
The program was created in 2016 by the General Assembly, which directed SCDNR to develop and implement a coyote tagging and reward program.
Annually, SCDNR traps, tags and releases four coyotes per game zone (16 total). Anyone who successfully takes and reports a tagged coyote will be rewarded with a free lifetime hunting license. The person reporting the tagged coyote has the option to designate anyone for the lifetime license such as a child, relative or friend.
For more information on the Coyote Harvest Incentive Program, visit dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/coyote/coyoteincentive.html.
Community supports teen heart transplant recipient
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — Proceeds from a church’s fundraiser this weekend will go to assist the family of a Liberty teen who received a heart transplant last month.
Aaron Whitmire received his new heart on Feb. 2. He turned 14 while hospitalized at MUSC, according to Liberty First Baptist Church member Karin Shore.
“He’s a sweetheart,” she said. “He’s the sweetest kid.”
To help offset the family’s expenses related to the heart transplant, Liberty First Baptist Church will be sponsoring a
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Justice prevailed in the Palmetto State
If Bubba hadn’t caught that chicken and come running up with it in his mouth right when he did, Alex Murdaugh might very well have gotten away with murder.
There are probably few places in the world other than a wild-hog-hunting estate in the South Carolina Lowcountry where a hound dog and a yardbird could have 
played such a pivotal role in solving a murder mystery such as we saw unfold in a Colleton County courtroom over the past few weeks.
But it was not the good-old-boy system that won the day in this case. The villain of an entrenched rural aristocracy was unable to withstand the collective will of 12 ordinary citizens.
In the end, justice prevailed in the Palmetto State — which goes a long way toward making up for the bizarre, podunk images the Murdaugh case cast on our beloved state in the eyes of the nation, and indeed the world.
(When the judge has to send a bailiff to retrieve a dozen eggs from the jury room for a juror who is being ejected for
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Reports from the Veterans Affairs OIG
Who would have thought it … stealing diabetic test strips for profit? Apparently there’s money to be made from those medical supplies. And one Michigan woman, in charge of procurement at a Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacy, made a lot of it, stealing in excess of 7,500 boxes of the strips over the years.
She wasn’t alone in the scheme. She’d sell them to a co-thief who’d make her own sales down the line to a third
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Courier Letters to the Editor 3-8-23
Taking a stand for our children
Dear Editor,
We as parents who are raising children who have autism and developmental delays need to take a stand for our children so they may have a voice. I’m proposing to the councilmen and women to build Arc Chapter in Pickens County.
The Arc Chapter of South Carolina promotes and protects the human rights of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and activity supports their full
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