‘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 »
Questions bubble about COVID-19 vaccine rollout
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com
SENECA — While national and state health officials struggle to piece together a fluid vaccine 
rollout, South Carolina officials are asking for continued safety measures and patience.
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) interim public health director Dr. Brannon Traxler said Monday the wide-scale vaccination effort is
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Chris Bowers named Pickens County council chair
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — During Pickens County Council’s first meeting of 2021, Councilman Roy Costner and 
Councilman Chris Bowers swapped roles.
Bowers was elected council chairman during the organizational meeting, while Costner was elected vice chairman and Councilman Trey Whitehurst was elected vice chair pro tem.
All votes were unanimous.
Before the meeting, Costner, Bowers and new council members Henry Wilson and Alex Saitta were sworn in by Pickens County
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Roper credits county council for ‘resilient local economy’
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Pickens County administrator Ken Roper believes that county council has created an environment that has allowed the local economy to weather the pandemic better than other places.
Roper discussed new jobs and the county’s unemployment rate during the pandemic during an overview of county council accomplishments at council’s meeting last month.
As that meeting was the last meeting for two council members, Roper thought it appropriate to look back on the past four years.
County council approved balanced budgets with no tax increases in fiscal years 2018, 2019 and 2020, he said.
“Maintaining a conservative budget was one of the goals that county council outlined for staff in 2020,” Roper said. “The 2021 budget continues the trend of balanced budgets with no
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Pickens volleyball team takes second in major tourney
NORTH CHARLESTON — The Pickens Carolina One 18 Elite volleyball team went 6-1 at the January Jam in North Charleston last weekend, finishing second among a powerful group of teams.
The Pickens Carolina One club volleyball team, which goes by the name “Pride,” features upper-
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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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Demand for convalescent plasma triples as virus spreads
GREENVILLE — Amid the arrival of the long awaited COVID-19 vaccine, the demand for a well-known treatment for those battling the virus — convalescent plasma — has skyrocketed.
The Blood Connection, a nonprofit community blood center, has seen the demand for this life-saving product triple in the past few months because of its effectiveness. TBC has played a crucial role in local convalescent plasma collection in its commitment to meet every community hospital’s need during the pandemic. However, the need for convalescent plasma continues to far outrun the
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Group collecting items for local elderly residents
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A local nonprofit that assists area senior citizens is focusing on books and movies for its January donation drive.
Warmth and Comfort for the Elderly, Upstate, SC is seeking donations of old movies and large print
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Courier Obituaries 1-6-21
Carolyn Virginia Youngblood Cooper
GREENWOOD — Carolyn Virginia Youngblood Cooper, 88, formerly of Garner Heights Road, 
widow of Rev. E.A. Cooper, died Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, at Bellevue Skilled Nursing Center in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Born in Westminster, she was a daughter of the late Joseph “Buster” and Lila Walt Youngblood. Mrs. Cooper served along the side her husband as he pastored Glassy Mt. Baptist Church in Pickens and East Side Baptist Church in Greenwood for many years. Rev. Cooper founded East Side Christian School, where Mrs. Cooper taught preschool children. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Greenwood.
She is survived by her son, Skeets R. Cooper (Judy) of Pickens; her daughter, Jacqueline Cooper Young (Ken) of
The sun will come up tomorrow
Were we are starting a brand new year. And I’m looking forward to the changes that will come, as they always do. There will be times that will be difficult and times that will be good. But all that is to
come our way will be part of daily life.
There are a lot of life lessons to be learned from growing up on a farm. Worrying about the future is actually a fairly useless thing to do. Everything to do with a farm is real. There’s no need to worry about the things that may happen. Because they also may not happen.
That doesn’t mean you live the life of a grasshopper. Farming means being prepared and planning. And it can be the most rewarding work on Earth. Every single
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Love lifted me
Our lives are filled with activity and hectic schedules, and we have only been given a certain amount of days to accomplish what God wants us to do.
Since Adam and Eve, history has provided a probationary period to determine who will embrace 
and who will reject an eternal covenant relationship with our Creator. In the end, there will only be those who say yes to God’s invitation and those who say no and thereby choose to eternally separate themselves from Him. Hopefully, there will come a point when we examine our priorities and realize that how we lived
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