‘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 »
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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 »
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Wilson: ‘This is huge’
Hundreds more charges filed in ‘Prison Empire’ drug conspiracy investigation
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
STATE — The South Carolina State Grand Jury has issued indictments containing nearly 500 charges against 100 defendants in the “Prison Empire” investigation, South Carolina Attorney
General Alan Wilson announced Monday.
Many of those indicted face charges in Pickens County.
Wilson held a press conference on “Prison Empire” Monday afternoon.
“About a year and a half ago, we had a round of indictments come through on a very complex drug trafficking conspiracy that was being run out of South Carolina prison systems,” Wilson said.
At that time, Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark said the State Grand Jury investigation began in
‘Wild West’ no more
Work started on Easley subdivisions, greenway
I’ve always loved maps, so I really enjoy zooming around on Google Earth — especially to explore areas right here in Pickens County that I might never have noticed from the ground.
One of the oddities I discovered a few years ago was a spot just outside the Easley city limits that looked like a desert — mostly bare
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Pickens council field down to 3
PICKENS — Just two weeks out from Pickens’ special city council election, one of the four candidates on the ballot has dropped out of the race to replace Donna Owen on council.
Jonathan Baker, an admissions coordinator at Easley
Place skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in Easley, withdrew from the race on March 1, according to Pickens County elections director Travis Alexander.
Left on the ballot to fill the unexpired term of Owen, who announced her resignation in January, will be Allen Brewer,
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Market at the Mill plans spring festival
PICKENS — For area festival lovers who were disappointed by the cancellation of the 2021 Pickens Azalea Festival, there is still entertainment and fun on the horizon.
SpringFest ’21 will bring some big-name musical acts, along with festival rides, a car show and more than 150 specialty vendors both inside and out at the Market at the Mill, located at 225 Pumpkintown Highway in Pickens.
SpringFest will be held over a two-day period
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County COVID rate improves
COLUMBIA — As case numbers continue to drop, COVID-19 deaths were steady in Pickens County over the past week, with six deaths in seven days.
According to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, the county reported six confirmed deaths in the one-week period from last Tuesday to Monday, when the latest
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SDPC virus CASES KEEP DROPPING
COUNTY — Positive COVID-19 cases and quarantines around the School District of Pickens County 
continued on a downward trajectory last week, as nearly half of all the schools in the district had no cases reported and only three staff members tested positive.
Only one school in the district — Pickens High — had any staff members test positive, with two at the school and one in other
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Sculpture unveiled at historic church
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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PICKENS — “We are gathered at this special place to dedicate a sculpture honoring this special place — Soapstone Baptist Church in the Liberia community,” Clemson University anthropology 
professor Mike Coggeshall said Saturday.
Coggeshall was a part of the unveiling of a sculpture, the work of artist Keith Andrews, on the grounds of the church, which was founded by freed slaves in 1865.
“This community and the church that anchors it has struggled through centuries of challenges … to emerge today as a symbol of
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County hopes to ease transfer station issues
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — County staff anticipate increased traffic and wait times for those offloading 
construction and demolition (C&D) waste at the county’s newly opened transfer station.
County administrator Ken Roper discussed the issue during his report to council at its regular meeting
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