‘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 »
Pickens, Clemson elections Tuesday
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — After weeks of preparation, Pickens County is on the eve of two special elections to decide council members for the cities of Clemson and Pickens.
In Pickens, the race to succeed Donna Owen, who resigned in January, is down to just three candidates after candidate Jonathan Baker dropped out earlier in the month.
Left on the ballot to fill the unexpired term of Owen are Allen Brewer, Edgar Leese and Robert Nealy.
Brewer is an operations manager for Diamond Hill Plywood in Greenville and a lifelong Pickens
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SDPC virus cases increase slightly
SDPC virus CASES INCREASE SLIGHTLY
COUNTY — The number of positive COVID-19 cases among both staff members and students in the School District of Pickens County increased last week for the first time since the calendar turned to 
2021.
District officials said in their weekly update Friday that 27 students and eight staff members tested positive for the virus last week, up from 20 and three, respectively, the previous week.
Quarantines were also up for students, as 201 were
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County adds fewest confirmed COVID cases since September
COLUMBIA — With just two new confirmed deaths since last week, Pickens County is continuing to see improving numbers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported the confirmed COVID-19 deaths of two elderly Pickens County residents in the seven-day period ending on Monday, when the latest DHEC numbers available at press time had been released.
Pickens County added only 124 confirmed cases of the virus
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Man loses life in motorcycle
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A 20-year-old Easley man died last week after a two-vehicle collision.
Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the victim as Truman Jennings Ackerman, of Poinsett Circle.
The accident occurred at 8:34 p.m. March 10 on Powdersville Road, she said.
Ackerman was driving a motorcycle that struck a vehicle on its passenger side, Kelley said.
Ackerman, who was not wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma, Kelley said.
The Easley Police Department is investigating.
Rec department plans day camps
PICKENS — The Pickens Recreation Department is planning five one-week sessions of summer day camp for children ages 6-12 in June and July.
Cost for the camp, to be held at the Pickens Recreation Center at 545 Sangamo Road, will be $70 per child per week, with a price adjustment for additional siblings. a
Registration is now open. There will be no partial camp fees this year, and there is a non-refundable
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Green Wave top Tigers to win Shock City Invitational
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
IVA — For the first time on the short season, Easley trailed in its Shock City Invitational championship game against Crescent on Thursday night.
The Green Wave responded in the only way they knew how, battering the Tigers to regain the lead and never losing it again in a 9-4 victory.
“We were a little flat,” Easley head coach Gill Payne said. “It might be the flattest I’ve seen this group, because these are high-energy
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Daniel’s Hicks named to North-South all-star team
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COLUMBIA — Even with the season ending a few weeks ago, honors continue to roll in for Daniel senior guard Sincere Hicks.
Hicks was selected for the S.C. North-South all-star girls’ basketball game on Thursday.
Hicks’ selection for the game is the culmination of a stellar senior season in which she averaged 10.5 points, 2.1 rebounds,
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Adult coed volleyball leagues now forming at Pickens Rec
PICKENS — The Pickens Recreation Department is now holding registration for adult coed volleyball.
Players must be 21 years of age, with ID required. The registration fee due at signup will be $45 per couple for in-city residents and $55 for out-of-city residents. Individual fees are $22.50 in city and
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Courier Obituaries 3-17-21
BECKY HOOKER
NORRIS — Carolyn Rebecca “Becky” Peele Hooker, 52, passed away peacefully at home on 
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, after an extended battle with MS.
Becky is lovingly remembered by her husband, A. Henry Hooker Jr.; a son, Nicholas Hooker (Hope), and granddaughter, Presley; mother, Marion Peele; brother, Carlton Peele (Lanie); nephew, Brady Peele (Jamie); niece, Meagan P. Schulenberg, and great-nephew, Maddox.
She was predeceased by her father, Bobby L. Peele.
Becky was a graduate of Clemson University’s nursing
Important to demand sunshine
It is Sunshine Week across America. South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act — the Sunshine Law — gives you access to government meetings and public records.
Let me share with you the preface to the S.C. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):
“The General Assembly finds that it is vital in a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and public manner so that citizens shall be advised of the performance of public officials and of the decisions that are reached in public activity and in formulation of public policy.”
This sentence sums up the intent of South Carolina’s Sunshine Law — that it is crucial to be aware of the important decisions public bodies make in your
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