Daily Archives: 03/20/2024
Easley football coach Durrah resigns
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — After a four-year tenure that brought together some of the top offenses in school 
history, Easley head football coach Jordan Durrah stepped down from his position on Monday citing health issues.
Durrah took over the Green Wave football team in 2020, going 16-24 in four seasons and making the playoffs in
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Young Appalachian Musicians founder McDaniel given Order of the Palmetto
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS – Some of the many people who love Betty McDaniel pulled off a small miracle Saturday – keeping a secret from a woman so connected to her community.
McDaniel received the Order of the Palmetto Saturday during Kids Fest at the Hagood Mill, a
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Clemson sues ACC over exit fee
By Eric Sprott
Courtesy The Journal
sports@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — After years of anticipation, Clemson looks poised to begin taking the steps necessary to end its longtime affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Those steps began Tuesday with a lawsuit filed by the school against the conference in the Pickens County Court of
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Liberty approves events committee
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — The city of Liberty’s Fourth of July event will be the first event organized by the city’s recently approved events committee.
An events committee is “something we’ve been meaning to do for a while,” Mayor Erica Romo Woods said during Liberty City Council’s March 11 meeting, where council members heard from Tabitha Skipper, president of Pickens Azalea Festival Inc.
“The Azalea Festival (nonprofit) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit,” that supports the annual Pickens Azalea
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Pickens officials ponder Main Street public restrooms
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Pickens city officials are considering building public restrooms near the amphitheater on Main Street.
Restrooms were one of the topics discussed at Pickens City Council’s Feb. 26 meeting.
“There was some interest in finding information
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Little launches Wave over Pickens
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Going to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning, Easley’s Camora Little had a chance to give the Green Wave their first lead of the game and the win when she stepped up to face
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Lady Lions fall short to Crescent
By Eric Sprott
Courtesy The Journal
esprott@upstatetoday.com
CENTRAL — The season is admittedly still in its infancy, but Daniel High School softball coach 
Cora Wichelns wasn’t about to understate the importance of Tuesday’s matchup against defending Class 3A Upper State champion
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Oppenheimer in the spotlight, but did you know about Upstate’s own great physicist?
Oppenheimer!
Nearly 80 years after he led the scientific team that jolted World War II to a cataclysmic conclusion, his name is in the news again because of a movie about him that cleaned up at the 
Oscars last week.
But J. Robert Oppenheimer wasn’t the only great physicist of that era whose monumental contributions continue to shape our future.
We had our own “Oppenheimer” right here in the
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People are only as true as their word
We live in an age that tends to shrug its shoulders when confronted with spreading information that is not true. Instead of asking, like Pilate, “What is truth?” the postmodern man says, “Truth is 
relevant to each individual” or perhaps “There might be truth somewhere, but we cannot know it.”
Those of us who follow Christ realize that not being
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