Yearly Archives: 2020
Market at the Mill to open Thursday
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A Pickens plant site that has sat empty for several years will officially begin its 
newest chapter Thursday.
The Market at the Mill, located at the former Singer plant, will hold a soft opening Thursday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., facility manager Barry Crawford said.
Following the soft opening, the market will be open from 8 a..m.-5 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sundays.
Those hours may expand, Crawford said.
“We’ve got businesses that are looking to move in that may want to
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Woman gets prison time for hit and run
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A Greenville woman was sentenced last week for a 2018 hit and run that severely 
injured a Six Mile man.
Judge Letitia Verdin sentenced Trista Sanders on Feb. 19 to 10 years in prison suspended to four and a half years, followed by five years probation, according to the 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
The collision occurred at the intersection of S.C. 183 (Main Street) and Durham Mill Road in Pickens at 10:10 p.m. July 4, 2018, South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Sutherland said at the time.
The collision occurred as a 2004 Yamaha motorcycle driven
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Local wrestlers qualify for state
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — With winter sports nearly coming to an end, many of the county’s top high school 
wrestlers are preparing to wrestle for a state championship on Saturday in Anderson.
In the 5A ranks, Easley High School will be represented by a trio of seniors at this year’s championships, with Shylo Carr, Josh Hill and Caleb Holcombe placing at the Upper State qualifiers for the Green Wave.
Carr was a five seed in the heavyweight qualifying bracket, but upset Sean Grennan from Nation Ford and Zach McRae from Byrnes to lock up the three seed in the state
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Daniel loses postseason opener
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — Coming off their first region championship since 2014 and a first-round bye in 
the playoffs, the Daniel High School girls’ basketball team had all the odds in its favor on Friday night against the Ridge View Blazers.
The Lions (15-10) managed to jump out to a 27-22 lead against the Blazers at the half. However, the Lions lost their offensive punch down the stretch as the Blazers’ fast break wore them down, leading to a 52-39 upset by Ridge View.
“We started rushing a little bit,”
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Pickens girls fall in first round
PICKENS — Even though the Pickens High School girls’ basketball team ended its season with a loss in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs to a powerful Lower Richland team, head coach Rikki Owens said the 2019-2020 group is one that will be long remembered by Blue Flame faithful.
“This team never gave up,” Owens said, “and it’s a team that has left a legacy. They have set the bar high in work ethic, dedication and leadership for future Blue Flame. We love them so much more than basketball, but basketball is what brought us all together, and we are grateful for that. We were definitely blessed with a special group of girls and their parents. We have
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Lions break playoff skid before season-ending loss
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — The Daniel High School boys’ basketball team hosted the Lakewood Gators last 
week hoping to break a postseason losing streak that dated to the 2013 season.
The 22-5 Lions entered the Class 4A playoffs fresh off their most successful season since that 2013 season that ended in the Upper State championship game, but were facing no slouch in an uber-athletic Gators team.
After Daniel took control in the third quarter and seemed poised to bring home the victory, the Gators came roaring back to put the game in doubt. But the clutch free throw shooting of all-state guard Bobby Taylor made the difference for the Lions as they picked up the 63-55 win.
Unfortunately for Daniel, the playoff bracket alignment set the Lions up with a tall task in the second round, taking on the two-time defending
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Missing CU student found dead in Tenn.
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CLEMSON — An investigation is underway after a missing Clemson University student was found dead in Tennessee.
Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chad Brooks said in a release Thursday morning that John Andrew Martin Jr. had last been seen at a home in the Clemson area at 11 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16.
Martin, 21, was believed to be driving a gray 2006 Mazda MZ3 hatchback, Brooks said.
Brooks issued an update Thursday afternoon after Martin and his vehicle were found in Sevier
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Participants needed for cigarette study
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Those looking to kick the habit may qualify to take part in a new research study at Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County.
Director of research Elizabeth Chapman said BHSPC collaborates with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
“They’ve been awarded two studies and asked us to be a second site for those two studies,” she said.
Both studies involve the medication Chantix (varenicline), Chapman said.
She is seeking cigarette smokers for one trial.
“We’re looking for individuals who are currently smoking cigarettes who have a desire to quit,”
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I heard it on the party line
Does anybody remember the days before cellphones? The days when you could look up telephone numbers in something called a telephone book? And businesses were listed in the 
yellow pages?
There is an entire generation walking around today who doesn’t know what a rotary phone is. And they don’t know that when Southern Bell was the only telephone company, there was such a thing as party lines, when a number of families shared the same telephone line. The ring pattern let each family know who was being called.
If someone inadvertently left the phone off the hook, an entire line would be unusable until someone noticed. Unless, that is, everyone kept a bird dog whistle next to the phone in case of just such an
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Remembering the man who saved Stone Mountain
Well, what can you say about the man who saved Stone Mountain?
That would be my dad, Bobby D. Barnett.
As a young poultry scientist at Clemson University, he conducted research that proved that chickens didn’t really need to eat granite grit for their gizzards to grind up chicken feed, because it’s already ground up. That discovery put the Stony Mo Granite Grit Company out of business and saved the mountain they were grinding up from being fed to chickens.
That was just one of the many stories my dad told me and my brother Paul and sister Susan
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