***ONLINE EXCLUSIVE *** Blue Flame head to Columbia in quest for 17th State Championship
By Bru Nimmons Sports Editor bnimmons@thepccourier.com PICKENS — For the first time since 2021, the Pickens High School volleyball team More »
Prisma to build hospital in Easley
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com EASLEY — Prisma Health plans to build a new $138 million inpatient behavioral health More »
Blue Flame roll past rival Daniel to advance in Class 4A playoffs
By Bru Nimmons Sports Editor bnimmons@thepccourier.com CENTRAL — After dropping two five set battles to rival Daniel in the regular More »
Swearing in
Members of the Pickens County’s Legislative Delegation take the oath of office on the Pickens County Courthouse steps in Pickens More »
This week in FOOTBALL FRENZY only in PICKENES COUNTY COURIER
LIONS OVERCOME SLOW START AGAINST SENECA TO WIN SIXTH STRAIGHT REGION TITLE; EASLEY DROPS FINALE TO GREENVILLE; RED DEVILS FALL More »
Selugadu set for this weekend at mill
PICKENS — Every November, the Hagood Mill Historic Site observes Native American Heritage Month by holding the Native American Celebration. More »
Courier Legal Notices 9-16-20
INFORMATION TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
IN THE PROBATE COURT
COUNTY OF: PICKENS
CASE NUMBER: 2018ES3900735-2
IN THE MATTER OF: RANDOLPH SMITH POLLARD (Decedent)
On JUNE 16, 2020, Application/Petition was made to the Probate Court of PICKENS County at (address), 222 MCDANIEL AVE, B-16, PICKENS, SC, for the INFORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND
Local students top SC, national average on SAT
COUNTY — The School District of Pickens County outpaced the state and national averages in SAT 
scores released Friday by the South Carolina Department of Education.
Pickens County’s total overall average was 1085, higher than the national score of 1030 and the South Carolina score of 1019. Pickens County ranked second out of all South Carolina school districts in overall total score, while each of its four high schools exceeded state and national averages.
Daniel led the way with an average score of 1162, followed by
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Election board hears social media complaints
No changes planned after petitions calling for members’ removal
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — With the general election just two months away, the Pickens County Board of Voter Registration and Elections has once again been forced to deal with controversy.
The board, which has only served for a few months after the abrupt resignation of the previous board members in March, is now facing accusations of bias from some local residents.
Last month, social media posts by board secretary Lillian Boatwright drew scrutiny after some residents said they appeared to show her liberal political beliefs.
That scrutiny led Pickens County conservative activist Johnnelle Raines to launch a petition calling for Boatwright’s resignation, and the issue was a prime topic during the election board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
Election board chair James Liddle addressed the
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All Systems Go
No. 1 Tigers set to kick off season on Saturday
By Eric Sprott
Courtesy The Journal
esprott@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — The Clemson football team has won the ACC championship each of the last five years, and with preseason first-team All-Americans Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne back to lead the 
way this season, the media that covers the conference sees little reason why the Tigers won’t make it six in a row.
The conference announced the results of its preseason media poll on Friday, and the top-ranked Tigers — who will kick off the season this Saturday — were predicted to finish first by 132 of the media panel’s 134 voters. The
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Cyberattack disrupts SDPC online learning
EASLEY — With most students in the School District of Pickens County completing their 
schoolwork from home this week, the district was the target of an attack that disabled internet service on school and student devices on Tuesday.
According to a statement from district spokesman John Eby, the internet outage was caused by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on the district’s web
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Opioid summit inspires at SWU
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — At the height of his baseball career, Darryl Strawberry stepped up to the plate, helping his teams win four World Series titles.
These days, Strawberry steps up to the microphone, traveling the world and sharing his story of 
substance abuse, treatment and recovery.
Strawberry spoke at the recent Road to Recovery Through Christ Summit at Southern Wesleyan University. The Steppin’ It Up Coalition and Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County
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District updates virus numbers
COUNTY — Only two of the School District of Pickens County’s more than 20 schools had no staff or students quarantined due to the threat of COVID-19 as of Friday.
Ambler Elementary and Dacusville Middle were the only schools in the county with no students or staff testing positive or quarantined, according to data posted on the district website.
The district reported Friday that eight staff members had
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Local COVID-19 spread increases
COLUMBIA — South Carolina officials have reported just one new COVID-19 death in Pickens County over the past week, but the virus’ spread in the county over the past two weeks is cause for 
concern, as Pickens has moved from the state’s lowest two-week incidence rate to one of its highest over the past three
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Fund could provide some road repairs
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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COUNTY — A county fund could be used to help pay to fix smaller road issues through Pickens 
County.
The issue came up during county council’s Aug. 10 meeting.
The Forfeited Land Commission is a company created by state law “that bids in for property when no one bids on it at the delinquent tax sale,” county administrator Ken Roper said.
“Something bad will have happened,” he said. “Someone didn’t pay
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Clark gives update on sheriff’s office
Counseling programs to begin soon
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark says the detention center has only had one inmate with COVID-19 during the pandemic.
“We’ve done very well as compared to a lot of people across the state, especially the Department of Corrections,” he said.
Clark gave an update on the sheriff’s office during a virtual Pickens United meeting Aug. 31.
“We talk about it every day,” Clark said of COVID-19. “We’ve been very lucky.”
His agency’s biggest concern regarding the pandemic “is the detention center,” he said.
“We’ve done well with that,” Clark said. “We’ve only had one person booked in that had COVID that we know of, and we tried to get them out the next day.”
The detention center staff “has been great” in dealing
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