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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 »
US attorney launches letter campaign for officers
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COLUMBIA — The United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina is encouraging 
residents to write thank you notes to the law enforcement officers in their area.
Last week, U.S. Attorney Peter McCoy announced that his office was launching a “Thank a Law Enforcement Officer” campaign.
The campaign encourages the public to send thank you notes to the law enforcement offices in their area, he said
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District’s virus cases up slightly
COUNTY — Although the overall number of students and staff members quarantined as a precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was down a little in the School District of Pickens 
County’s first week back from Christmas break, the number of positive cases of the virus rose slightly.
In the final week before Christmas break, a combined 717 people across the district — 646 students and 71 staff members — were quarantined. In the first week back this month, according to figures released by the
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Hospital system restricts visitors
UPSTATE — Prisma Health is restricting patient visitation across its entire system in the wake of a growing surge of COVID-19 infections in South Carolina.
“We know that being with families is itself a healing therapy, and so we wrestled with this decision. But we believe this measure is needed in the wake of the growing post-holiday surge of
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Photos of maskless crowd draw ire of Clemson residents
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — Clemson residents were outraged over the weekend after photos of a concert at a bar circulated on social media, showing patrons packed together indoors and violating social distancing 
guidelines.
Posts on the “Together for Clemson” Facebook group featured users chirping about the Study Hall Restaurant and Bar, located downtown, “flouting city rules” in hosting the concert on Friday. One person even left a one-star Google review of the venue, saying, “Continues to hold huge maskless events in a
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Filing opens Friday for council seats
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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COUNTY — Filing will open Friday for those wishing to run for vacant seats on the city councils of Pickens and Clemson.
The Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Pickens County will be conducting the special
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Pickens girls drop OT thriller at TR
PICKENS — In its first region game of the season, the Pickens Lady Blue Flame basketball team went toe-to-toe for four quarters with the Travelers Rest Lady Devildogs at their gym before falling in overtime, 75-67.
Lady Blue Flame coach Rikki Owens said the Pickens team is very young, yet they sometimes play
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Pickens Rec spring volleyball and soccer signups underway
PICKENS — Spring soccer and volleyball registration is being taken now through Jan. 29 at the 
Pickens Recreation Center on Sangamo Road in Pickens.
Financial assistance is available for those who qualify and will only be taken the first three weeks of the registration period, Jan. 4-22.
In soccer, the following coed age divisions are offered: 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12. Depending on size of
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leagues, the 9-10 and 11-12 divisions may have to be combined.
In spring volleyball, the following age divisions are offered: 7-9, 10-12, 13-14 and 15-17.
Following registration, a skills/evaluation day will be held for each age division. The registration fee provides a jersey to be kept. The fee is $45 for in-city residents and $55 for out-of-city residents. Birth certificates are required at registration. Birthdate cut-off used is Sept. 1, 2020.
Anyone interested in coaching or who needs additional information is asked to call the recreation department at (864) 878-2296.
Duke Foundation, Trout Unlimited chapter join forces
MOUNTAIN REST — In an effort to reduce visitor impact in the Burrells Ford area of the Sumter 
National Forest, the Chattooga River Chapter of Trout Unlimited initiated a grant with the Duke Energy Foundation to erect four new informational kiosks in the area.
The kiosks provide information to visitors about the designated wilderness area, the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and Leave No Trace principles. Burrells Ford is the gateway to the Ellicott Rock Wilderness and
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Clements: Weekly testing at Clemson this semester
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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CLEMSON — Clemson University students and employees will be tested often for COVID-19 during
the spring semester.
Clemson University president Jim Clements discussed the pandemic and students’ return to campus in an update issued last week. Clemson’s spring semester began Jan. 6.
“As I shared previously, we plan to offer more in-person classroom opportunities this semester, while still keeping our focus squarely on providing a safe environment for our students, faculty and staff,” Clements said.
University officials are closely monitoring South Carolina’s COVID-19 situation, Clements said.
“Although the development of multiple vaccines brings great hope, we expect the new few months to remain challenging,” he
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Legislator out of hospital after emergency surgery
By Greg Oliver
Courtesy The Journal
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CLEMSON — South Carolina House District 3 Rep. Jerry Carter of Clemson, who underwent 
emergency colon surgery last week, is back at home.
“Jerry was released from the hospital (Sunday) and is recovering at home,” his wife, Karen Carter, said on Monday. “He still has some recovery time ahead of him.”
Karen Carter added that her husband, who is expected to miss
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