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Daily Archives: 08/20/2014

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Police ask for help to find assault suspect

CLEMSON — Clemson police are “desperately” asking for the public’s help in finding a man wanted in connection with an assault and battery earlier this month.

According to a release from Clemson police chief Jimmy Dixon, officers responded to an assault and battery call at Falls Landing Apartments on Old Central Road at around 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 9.

A female victim told police she was outside her apartment when someone came from behind her and dragged her inside her apartment. Once inside the apartment, the victim said she was choked until she was unconscious.

When she regained consciousness, she told officers, she saw a man inside the apartment attempting to steal a

Deputy injured in single-car wreck

Courtesy photo

This patrol car was estimated as a total loss after a Pickens County sheriff’s deputy crashed it into a tree while responding to a call last week.

COUNTY — A Pickens County sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized after he wrecked his patrol car in an early-morning accident last week.

According to Pickens County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Creed Hashe, deputy Thomas Camp lost control of his car on Edinburgh Lane near Easley at about 4:25 a.m. on Thursday and hit a tree.

Hashe said Camp, who has been employed by the sheriff’s office since July 2011, was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.

Camp was responding to a call of large animal in the road when his 2014 Ford patrol car left the shoulder of the

High school football season set to kick off Friday night

Kerry Gilstrap/Courier

At left, Pickens senior James Ferguson carries the ball during the Blue Flame Jamboree on Friday night. At right, Easley quarterback Dalton Black launches a pass Thursday during the Easley Jamboree. The two teams will kick off the 2014 season with their annual rivalry showdown this Friday night at Pickens.

By Eugene Jolley
Courier Sports

ejolley@thepccourier.com

The 2014 high school football season officially kicks off this Friday night with the annual county battle betweenwe3b SW FFB Pickens and Easley.

This year’s game in Pickens again will feature the Sam Wyche Meals on Wheels Food Fight battle between the two schools to see who can raise the most money for the charity. This year, however, the student bodies at Liberty and Daniel are joining in the fundraising, which will run through Sept. 18.

Liberty will also kick off its season this Friday as it travels to Crescent.

The head coaches of Pickens and Easley appreciate the support their communities and student bodies have given

Man charged in shooting

EASLEY — A 21-year-old Easley man was charged with attempted murder last week after another man showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound.

Pickens County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Creed Hashe said Jeremy Lee Basquette, 21, was charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. He is being held without bond at the

Miller, Ohlrogge earn top district honors

COUNTY — The School District of Pickens County announced its 2014-15 teacher and support employee of the year at last week’s back-to-school celebration.

8-20 Page 1A.inddNikki Miller, a reading coach at Pickens Elementary School received teacher of the8-20 Page 1A.indd year honors and received a $500 cash prize, while Gettys Middle School ISS instructor Jennifer Ohlrogge earned a $250 prize as the district’s support employee of the year.

According to Pickens Elementary principal Allen Fain, Miller “realizes that her mission is to make an impact on all students, and not just the ones she teaches.”

“It’s her goal to help other teachers develop their craft, and many times throughout the year other teachers have requested to visit her in order to learn something new,” Fain said.

In a recommendation for Ohlrogge, Gettys assistant principal Pat Snider wrote that “her selection as our employee of the year

Filing closes for November races

By Ben Robinson
Staff Reporter

brobinson@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — Filing has closed for all local races in the November general election, and one Pickens County School Board seat in particular will be hotly contested.

In the school board District 2 race in November to replace Jimmy Gillespie, who decided not to seek reelection, four candidates have filed. Phillip Bowers, Kevin McKenzie, Tony Qualkinbush and Jennifer B. Wood will be on the ballot vying for the seat.

The only other school board race that will be contested will be the District 6 contest, which will feature incumbent

County council meets new prison director

By Nikki Rutledge
For The Courier

nrutledge@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — Interim county administrator Ralph Guarino introduced Pickens County’s new prison director to county council members on Monday night.

Drew Sisco has been with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office for nine and a half years, starting out on road patrol and quickly moving up the ladder, becoming lieutenant of the Pickens County Jail. In 2008, Sisco was named the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Officer of the Year.

During his address to council at its meeting Monday night, Guarino also asked for the approval of $2,000 coming

Six Mile’s Ponderosa Park vandalized

By Nikki Rutledge
For The Courier

nrutledge@thepccourier.com

SIX MILE — Vandalism has become a problem at Ponderosa Park in Six Mile, and town officials discussed the issue at last week’s town council meeting.

“These reports are very upsetting,” mayor Roy Stoddard said.

More than 400 feet of copper wiring was stolen from eight of the lamps around the walking trail at the park recently. The theft came after a separate incident in June, when the equipment room at the park was broken into

Clemson vet elected to national advisory council

CLEMSON — Clemson Livestock-Poultry Health veterinarian Adam Eichelberger has been elected to the national Council on Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine. The council advises the American Veterinary Medicine Association executive board about livestock and food health, food safety and communicable diseases.

Eichelberger is Livestock-Poultry Health director of animal health programs and is based in Columbia. He was nominated by the S.C. Association of Veterinarians and was voted to the position at the AVMA meeting in Denver.

Eichelberger will serve three years on the national council, which provides advice on food-related issues, health of livestock and food animals, diseases that can be transmitted to humans from animals and the prevention, control