Daily Archives: 09/30/2025
Deal reached in Six Mile FD dispute
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
SIX MILE — The parties involved in a dispute between the town of Six Mile, Pickens 
County and Six Mile Fire Department firefighters are hopeful that a path forward has been found that will see two displaced firefighters returned to their positions.
In recent weeks, social media posts have alleged that Six Mile Fire Department Chief Michael Barrett and Assistant Chief Kendall Rampey were
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School district breaks ground on new learning facility in Pickens
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — The School District of Pickens County’s latest project aims to broaden the educational horizons of both children and adults.
Officials broke ground Friday morning on the Gateway to Innovation — G2i for short — at the Dr. Mendel H. Stewart campus, housed on the grounds of the former Pickens Middle School site.
“This is a significant event,” said school board chairman Randy Robinson, who recalled telling district superintendent Danny Merck to “kick out a wall at the career center” to enlarge the district facility for growth.
“He did one better,” Robinson said of Merck. “He had a thought, and that thought’s behind us.”
Robinson thanked district staff for “planning ahead, thinking ahead and having a vision
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Think pink for breast cancer awareness
The Courier is going pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In honor of those whose lives have been affected by this devastating disease, we will accent our front page with pink every week of October.
The pink ribbon has been synonymous with breast cancer for years. Nowadays, people rarely think twice when they see pink ribbons, having grown accustomed to the pink ribbon and what it symbolizes.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month has been celebrated each year since 1985, and many other breast cancer awareness initiatives have been devised since then. While the pink ribbon may seem like it’s been in use for just as long, it was actually established only a little more than 20 years ago.
Although you can see waves of pink every October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many people don their ribbons year-round. Great strides have been made with respect to breast cancer, but with about 225,000 new cases popping up each year in the United States alone, there is still work to be done.
PC Habitat for Humanity weathers challenges, plans to expand goals
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Despite rising costs for construction, Pickens County Habitat for Humanity plans to up the number of people it helps put into homes.
The nonprofit held its Have a Heart for Habitat dinner on Thursday evening in Pickens.
“Your presence here tonight shows not only your generosity, but also your belief in the power of community, passion and the simple truth that everyone deserves a safe and
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Out of touch with reality
Philippians 2:1-2 “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be 
likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.”
A word we often hear in this day in age is “connected.” To be connected is to be joined together in agreement of our belief in Christ Jesus as our God and our Creator (John 1:1-3).
I once taught a children’s lesson with an old style
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You’re Fired
Dear Editor,
You’re fired!
That is what some people are hearing at work nowadays for comments they made on social media about Charlie Kirk.
People are saying words have consequences, so don’t feel sad for someone who loses
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The world will know us by our love
Each day we witness more division within our culture. There are only two sides, hate and love, and the separation is growing larger.
Sadly, for those on the dark side, violence is becoming more acceptable. It’s obvious that insisting is not enough for those who now endorse terrorism. Today’s violence has a specific reason: it’s about politics and religion, just like it’s been
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You can turn off the news
Several months ago I took a “short” break from watching the daily news — except that break wasn’t so short after all when I extended it to over a month.
Then, wanting to continue with the peace that came from not being hooked into the daily news cycles and media hysteria, I set my phone to send me alerts with short blurbs about important news. I could quickly scan the few lines of the alert, catch up and be done
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The House VA Committee
The U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has been busy. In a recent week they passed 14 veterans bills, all designed to help veterans and their families.
Here are a few of the bills that passed out of the committee and are ready to go to the full House of Representatives.
The Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025 is
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Courier Obituaries 10-01-25
OLLIE MAE SENTELL KELLY
SIX MILE — Ollie Mae Sentell Kelly, 87, of Six Mile, loving wife of Miles Kelley, passed away on Sept. 26, 2025, in Easley.
Ollie was an inspiration of love for all the people she came across. She was a member of Solid Rock Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday school for many years. She loved the simple life of sitting on the porch watching the redbirds fly around. They were her favorite birds.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Miles Kelly; her sister, Lola May Crumpton; brothers, JT, Charles, Truman and Norman Sentell and Michael Crumpton; her mother, Leila Medlin Sentell; and her father, Lloyd Sentell. She leaves behind a niece who
loves her so much, Teresa Carlisle.
She left behind her beloved family, Teresa, Jerry, Tyler and Victoria Carlisle, Tony, PJ and Zack Crumpton, Ricky and Joy Crumpton, Virginia Crumpton, Ashely, David and Daniel Dexter and a lot of other family and friends who she loved dearly.
We will miss you so much, Ollie Mae Sentell Kelly.
A visitation will be held from 2-2:45 p.m. Oct. 1 at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home.
A funeral service in honor of Ollie will be held at 3 p.m. Oct. 1 in the chapel of Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home.
Burial will follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Please visit robinsonfuneralhomes.com or Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home and Crematory Central-Clemson Commons.
SANDRA SUE FARMER
LIBERTY — Sandra Sue Whitmire Farmer, 80, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, at the home surrounded by family.
Born in Pickens, she was the wife of William T. Farmer and a daughter of the late Clyde C. and Essie Porter Whitmire.
She was a member of Rock Springs Baptist Church and formerly several other churches as a pastor’s wife. Her faith in Jesus was very important to her, and she spent many years serving as a pianist, organist and teacher. She loved Christmas and directed several Christmas programs over the years. She was a business person and entrepreneur, owner of the Doll Closet and SusieCute Collectibles in Easley, for many years. She loved all of her grandkids and great-grandkids, and was sure that they all had a doll or an action figure to play with.
Surviving are husband William T. Farmer (Sr.); two sons, William Farmer (Jr.) (Lourdes) of Durham, N.C. and Andrew (Bridget) Farmer of Liberty; a daughter Lori
