‘A true friend’
Tinsley remembered as friend, mentor By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com PICKENS — A fixture in the automotive and banking More »
This week in FOOTBALL FRENZY only in PICKENES COUNTY COURIER
Red Devils handle homecoming business against Landrum; Lions rolling in region play; Pickens to return to action; Easley falls to More »
Elections set for Tuesday
By Bru Nimmons Staff Reporter bnimmons@thepccourier.com COUNTY — Pickens County voters will return to the polls this week to vote More »
Appalachian Folk Festival to be held Friday, Saturday
PICKENS — The Greater Pickens Chamber of Commerce announced the return of the Pickens Appalachian Folk Festival, taking place this More »
Market at the Mill’s ‘Stuff the Truck” project set to help Helene survivors
PICKENS – With the Relief effort continuing for Hurricane Helene survivors, one of the biggestobstacle has been oversupply support staging. More »
AnMed CEO discusses current, future growth
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com EASLEY — What began as one woman’s promise to God has developed into a More »
$40K starting pay for teachers in SDPC budget
LIBERTY — The School District of Pickens County’s board of trustees has approved the first reading of a proposed budget that includes starting teacher pay at $40,000 a year.
The proposed $135.5 million general fund budget passed the first of three readings based on the S.C. House Ways and Means Committee’s information, which is expected to increase the amount of funding to school districts.
“We’re early in the budget process and expect these numbers to change after this first reading,” district chief financial officer Clark Webb
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Group seeking donations for health care workers, seniors
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A local nonprofit is collecting items this month to help brighten the days of local health care workers and the elderly.
Members of Warmth and Comfort for the Elderly, Upstate, SC use their crochet skills to provide warm items for nursing home patients,
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‘The Outsiders’ to open Thursday at PCPAC
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — The director of the play opening Thursday at the Pickens County Performing Arts Center said the theater program there will be a draw for the community.
“The Outsiders” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $10.
The play is an adaptation of the classic novel by S.E. Hinton about “The Greasers” and “The Socs,” two rival gangs.
Directing the play at the center is a return to Breann Griffin-Nicholson’s theatrical roots.
“I actually student directed ‘The Outsiders’ my senior year of high school,” she said. “It was the first play I directed. So when I
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County still battling COVID-19
COLUMBIA — With four confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the past week and some of the highest transmission and incidence rates in the state, 
Pickens County continues to struggle in the battle against the deadly virus.
According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, three of the four people who died of COVID-19-related causes in the one week period from last Tuesday to Monday were middle-aged. Pickens County also had one confirmed and one
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Will the cicadas be arriving soon?
The month of May will be the month when billions of eastern cicadas emerge from beneath the Earth’s surface to mate.
They won’t come out quietly. After all, they’ve been underground for 17 years and won’t come out again for 17 more.
They aren’t dangerous, and they are not like the dreaded locusts we used to see in western movies that swarmed through and stripped crops and foliage, leaving nothing behind.
The soil has to warm up to 64 degrees before the cicadas will emerge. This usually happens during the first two weeks of May, but there may be a few who arrive a bit early.
These are known to scientists as the Lonesome Bobs, because although the males are eager to
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Being happy never grows old
I remember as a kid how the days seemed so long.
I recall in the summertime after breakfast, I would shoot basketball until the sun became too hot, and then I would ride my bike to cool off.
Our neighbors had five children, and we would play kickball until it was too dark to see.
Life was fun, and I was always excited to do it all over again the next day.
I can still recall the simple joys of running through clover as fast as I could for no reason except to feel the wind on my face. I made sure to wear shoes, because being stung by a honeybee was
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Courier Letters to the Editor 5-5-21
Make this Mother’s Day a special one
Dear Editor,
I’ve heard it said almost any woman can be a mother, but it takes a special woman to be a Mama. She’s the one who encourages her husband and family when they’re down and out. Shines a light of joy into a gloomy world. Makes you believe in yourself by believing in you when
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Courier Obituaries 5-5-21
ARNOLDEAN BRADFORD
EASLEY — Mr. Arnoldean Bradford, 85, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Thursday, April 29, 2021.
Mr. Bradford was born in Elbert County, Ga., on June 8, 1935, and was the son of the late Collie Bradford and Hazel Partain. He was a loving husband to Joyce Phillips Bradford.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Joyce Bradford; a daughter, Robin Snelson (Tommy) of Easley; grandchildren, Van Massingill (Haley), Alicia Reddy (Kevin) and Bailey Bradford (fiancé Lukas); daughter-in-law, Amy Bradford; and the love of his life, great-granddaughter, Paetyn Reddy. Also surviving are stepgrandchildren, Eric Snelson (Joy), Ashley
Pickens’ Cloer recalls hunts
By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier
fter several weeks of action, spring turkey season is winding down in South Carolina. I can vividly remember my Grandpa W.T. Cloer working on his turkey calls.
My family’s sawmill home and Grandpa’s home were next to each other in the little sawmill village 
in the mountains of Northern Georgia in the 1950s.
Grandpa made his calls from cedar, walnut and poplar wood as he and I spent precious time together in his woodworking shop. He always made
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Flame making playoff push
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Coming out of their series with Easley, the Pickens Blue Flame knew they had a 
daunting task ahead. Their only path to the playoffs was winning the remainder of their four-game region slate.
That trek toward the playoffs began over the weekend against Travelers Rest, and
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