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Americana Folk Festival Returns to Hagood Mill
PICKENS – Hagood Mill Historic Site recently announced the return of the annual Americana Folk Festival, set for Saturday, June 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event promises a full day of soul-stirring music, Appalachian tradition and community celebration.
This year’s headliner is The Resonant Rogues, a dynamic band rooted in the mountains of western North Carolina. Fronted by songwriting duo Sparrow and Keith Josiah Smith, The Resonant Rogues blend Appalachian old-time, classic country and vintage
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County Council amends budget ahead of vote
By Evan Smoak
Courtesy The Journal
evan@upstatetoday.com
PICKENS — Pickens County Council met this week to discuss its fiscal year 2025-26 budget ahead of its final vote next month.
As part of the current proposed operations budget, all county employees — sans council members and the county administrator — will receive a 5 percent raise, a 1 percent step increase as part of the compensation study plan implemented this past fiscal year as well as a 4 percent
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More indicted in drug investigation
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
STATE — More defendants have been indicted on charges that include trafficking fentanyl as a result of a multi-year, multi-county state grand Jury investigation known as “Devil in Disguise,” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced last week.
According to a release from his office, the investigation began as a result of Greenville County’s 278 drug-related overdoses in 2022, “most of which were related
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Pickens County unemployment sees April rise
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COLUMBIA — The unemployment rate in Pickens County saw a slight increase during 
the latest jobs report released last week.
The S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) reported that unemployment in the county went up from 3.6 percent in March to 3.9 percent in April. Pickens County was one of just three counties in the state of South Carolina to see
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Six Mile to hold Memorial Day service on Friday
SIX MILE — The Town of Six Mile, in partnership with Fleet Reserve Branch 15 and the Pickens County Veterans Council, will host its annual Memorial Day service on Friday, 
May 30, in downtown Six Mile.
The community event aims to honor the memory of those who gave their lives in
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Tri-County, Clemson offer dual enrollment
UPSTATE — Tri-County Technical College and Clemson University officials recently 
announced a first-of-its-kind dual enrollment academy that provides qualified high school students a guaranteed path to earn their Clemson degree.
The TCTC Dual Enrollment Academy is targeted to high school students in the Anderson, Oconee and Pickens school
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Troop 51 scouts hike Chattooga Trail
The scouts of Troop 51 recently took a backpacking trip on the Chattooga River and hit the trail near Licklog Falls in Oconee County. Twenty-one scouts and adults made it on the hike. The trip was called the “Bradley Hawkins Memorial Hike” in memory of one of their former scout leaders and Eagle Scouts, who died as a result of a skateboarding accident in November 2021 at the age of 21. When Hawkins was a scout, he showed the troop the trail.
PCSO: Man who died after chase suspected in Liberty man’s killing
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Authorities say a Pickens man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot after a high-speed chase that ended in a 
crash in Clemson last week was a suspect in the shooting death of a Liberty man whose body was found in Pickens on Sunday.
According to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, 68-year-old Steve Crawford Whitmire went missing on Wednesday, May 14. Whitmire’s remains were found in a wooded area about 30 feet off the roadway Massingill Memorial Drive on Sunday evening, and a PCSO news release issued Tuesday
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Semper Fi Barn to host Memorial Day service
SIX MILE — The Semper Fi Barn, a sanctuary dedicated to honoring military veterans,will host a Memorial Day church service at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 25, to pay tribute to those who have died in service to the United States.
Pastor James Williams of Kings Grove Baptist Church in Six Mile will lead the service, which will honor the 1.3 million American service members who have died in wartime, as well as the 85,000 who remain missing.
Located off Smith Memorial Highway near Six Mile, the Semper Fi Barn serves as a
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