Daily Archives: 02/07/2024
Corn named next PHS principal
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — After former Pickens High School principal Jeff Duncan was named 
last month to a new post in the district office, School District of Pickens County officials did not have to look far to find the ideal candidate to fill the vacant post.
Pickens County School Board trustees
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Six Mile resident Hicks wins Ms. Wheelchair SC
LIBERTY — The Pickens County Performing Arts Center hosted the 2024 Ms. Wheelchair South Carolina competition, and a familiar face took home the crown.
Kathryn Hicks, of Six Mile, took first place at the competition winning the crown over four other disabled South Carolinians. Hicks will now travel throughout
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County to extend life of landfill
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Pickens County officials and staff are taking a number of approaches to help extend the life of the county’s landfill.
County officials discussed the landfill during the Jan. 29 Pickens United meeting.
County council chairman Chris Bowers
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Day to retire after 41 years at SDPC
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — After a career spanning more than four decades of service to the 
School District of Pickens County, longtime East End Elementary School principal Tammy Day is set to retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
Day has 41 years of experience in education, all in the School District of Pickens County, and has served as East End’s principal since 2006.
“An Easley High School graduate, Day joined the Pickens County family as a teacher when she stepped into
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Crash kills Pickens man
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A Pickens man died last week after a single-vehicle accident.
Pickens County chief deputy coroner Andrew Wilson identified the victim as 75-year-old Robert Clifton McLeod Jr., of
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Roper gives update on SC 183 safety enhancements
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Work will be undertaken in the coming weeks to meet a deadline for planned safety improvements to S.C. Highway 183 — a deadline imposed by 
Mother Nature.
In October 2023, the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank approved awarding $44.7 million to Pickens County for safety enhancements on S.C. 183.
To qualify for those funds, Pickens County had to provide a local match of $22.5 million, which it was able to do thanks to funding from the General Assembly, the County Transportation Committee
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Biden sweeps S.C. Democratic Primary
STATE — Four years after the S.C. Democratic Party primary served as the boost Joe Biden needed in his successful 2020 bid for the presidency, voters in the 
state — and here locally — gave the president another big endorsement over the weekend in his bid for a second term
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Bedenbaugh plans to run for US House in SC’s 3rd District
Prosperity — Michael Bedenbaugh of Prosperity SC, realtor, property developer and formerly head of PreserveSC is to campaign for Jeff Duncan’s House seat as an independent. Mike decided to enter the political arena last year when he saw 
it was obvious the nation had gone so far off course that it was time we need a drastic change in how we govern ourselves. Mike was inspired by the work of Rev. Martin Luther as well as George Washingtons farewell address. He created and published his 95 Theses for a
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Clemson trustees’ committee authorizes human-AI center
By Lauren Pierce
Courtesy The Journal
lpierce@upstatetoday.com
CHARLESTON — Clemson University Board of Trustees’ Educational Policy Committee approved a new center that will focus on the interaction between 
humans and artificial intelligence.
Provost Bob Jones gave a presentation last Thursday for the proposed Human AI
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Rocks of ages
More than 3,000 years ago, a young shepherd boy killed a giant warrior with a rock from a slingshot.
David, the shepherd boy, took some cheese sandwiches to his older brothers, who were in the army fighting the Philistines. When David arrived at the camp, he learned that everyone was afraid of a giant named Goliath. So David challenged Goliath with only his slingshot as a weapon. Goliath wore
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