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FOLKS Announces the 2025 – 2026 Jack Lewis Watershed Stewardship Scholarship
UPSTATE — Friends of Lake Keowee Society (FOLKS) is proud to announce the 2025 -2026 scholarship for high school students who show a strong interest in natural resource conservation and the environment. Our scholarship is named in honor of Jack Lewis, whose time with FOLKS spanned more than 20 years, and whose enthusiastic
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Courier Community Calendar 11-19-25
• Food pantry hours announced at PPC
The Food Pantry at Pickens Presbyterian Church is open Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To receive food, individuals must present a valid ID showing residency in Pickens County. Pickens Presbyterian Church is located at: 311 West Main Street in Pickens.
• Dacusville Lions to host monthly bingo
The Dacusville Lions Club will be hosting Bingo night on the second Thursday of each month at the Lions Building in Dacusville, located at 1384 Thomas Mill Road. The next Bingo session will be Thursday, Dec. 11 There are set to be 10 games beginning at 7 p.m., and proceeds will go toward funding community eventand other community needs. The games should conclude around 9 p.m. Bingo night will be a family-friendly event and monetary prizes will be available. For more, contact Bob Spalding at (864) 430-0119 or bob@bobspalding.net.
• Pickens Rotary meets Wednesdays
The Rotary Club of Pickens meets at 12:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Pickens County Museum. Guests are invited to the meetings to learn the 20 reasons to join Rotary.
• Fleet Reserve meets on third Saturday
Fleet Reserve Association, Branch 15 meets on the third Saturday of each month at Chicopee United Methodist Church, located at 403 S. Catherine St. in Walhalla.
The Fleet Reserve is open to all veterans of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
Contact Tom Smith via phone at (864) 868-9397 or via email at fleetrevbrn015@gmail.com for more information.
• Legion Post 52 to meet on 4th Tuesday
American Legion Post 52 officials invite all military veterans to join them in Easley. Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Post building at 310 Pope Field Road in Easley.
• Sertoma Club invites locals to meet
The Clemson Sertoma Club invites all local residents to attend its meetings. The club meets at noon the first and third Tuesdays of each month at Occasions at Wedgefield, located at 1551 Eighteen Mile Road in Central.
• Widowed persons group meets monthly
Moving Forward, a widowed persons group meets at 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at Silver Bay in Easley.
For more information, call Marian Huskins at (864) 270-6032.
• H.O.P.E. meetings scheduled monthly
Dillard Memorial Funeral Home and Hillcrest Memorial Park have announced the renewal of the H.O.P.E Ministries program. The program, which helps others through programs and the exchange of ideas and information, will host its next meeting on Nov. 25.
“We are pleased to offer this as a support system for families in our community and surrounding areas who have experienced a loss,” said Tanya Gravely, general manager of Dillard Memorial Funeral Home. Meetings will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at Hillcrest building beside Dillard Funeral Home in Pickens with the Rev. Lewis Edwards, community relations and director of H.O.P.E. For more information, call (864) 878-6371.
Train kills pedestrian
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A person was struck and killed by a train in Easley on Monday morning.
As of press time, the Pickens County Coroner’s Office had not released the name of the victim.
Amtrak issued a statement after the incident, saying the train was traveling from New Orleans to New York when it hit a person on the Norfolk Southern
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Resources available for food needs during SNAP pause
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS COUNTY — Due to ongoing court proceedings during the federal government
shutdown, it remains to be seen whether Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will be partially funded, fully funded or not issued at all for the month of November.
In a Oct. 31 post, the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) said it continued to monitor the federal government shutdown, as
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Remembering the past, looking to the future
By Steve Townsend
Special to the Courier
news@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — As the late summer sun set at the at the Semper Fi Barn, thirty-seven fallen veterans were honored in a ceremony that was brief, but profound.
One by one, dog tags bearing their names were hung—a simple act carrying immense
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Courier Community Calendar 11-12-25
• Dacusville Lions to host monthly bingo
The Dacusville Lions Club will be hosting Bingo night on the second Thursday of each month at the Lions Building in Dacusville, located at 1384 Thomas Mill Road. The next Bingo session will be Thursday, Nov.13. There are set to be 10 games beginning at 7 p.m., and proceeds will go toward funding community eventand other community needs. The games should conclude around 9 p.m. Bingo night will be a family-friendly event and monetary prizes will be available. For more, contact Bob Spalding at (864) 430-0119 or bob@bobspalding.net.
• H.O.P.E. meetings scheduled monthly
Dillard Memorial Funeral Home and Hillcrest Memorial Park have announced the renewal of the H.O.P.E Ministries program. The program, which helps others through programs and the exchange of ideas and information, will host its next meeting on Nov. 25. “We are pleased to offer this as a support system for families in our community and surrounding areas who have experienced a loss,” said Tanya Gravely, general manager
Wagner elected Liberty mayor
Pickens, Central races headed to Nov. 18 runoff
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Voters returned to the polls Tuesday to decide who will represent them in
the coming years in municipal seats around Pickens County.
In the only locally contested mayoral races this cycle, Liberty saw incumbent Mayor Erica Romo Woods unseated by challenger Andrea Wagner. Woods picked up just 87 votes compared to Wagner’s 518 votes in the election.
Elsewhere in Liberty, William Bo Cooley, Mikail Cantley, Jon Humphrey and Gerald Wilson all earned spots on Liberty City Council in unopposed races.
In Pickens, voters will have to wait two more weeks for the council chamber to be filled
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UCM aid needs soar
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — A single mother of young kids fleeing an abusive relationship, low on funds and trying to cover the costs of her new apartment until she receives the first paycheck
from her new job in Powdersville.
A server in Central already living paycheck to paycheck, unable to get her kids to school and herself to work until her car gets the expensive repair it needs to get back on the road.
A retired couple in Six Mile who have suddenly found themselves raising their young grandchildren, trying to pay for groceries, school supplies and clothing on their fixed income.
Those are just some of the true stories experienced by clients of United Christian
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American Legion set to honor fallen Pickens native, WWII vet.
By William Gravely
Special to the Courier
news@thepccourier.com
BELTON — The American Legion of Belton is honoring the memory of Pickens native,
Rev. Horace Edward Gravely who perished in the North Atlantic on Feb. 7, 1943 as a chaplain aboard the USS Henry Mallory, on Veteran’s Day.
The first surviving son of A. W. and Betty McKinney Gravely, he graduated from Pickens High School (delayed by the accidental death of his father in 1918) and of Wofford College in 1927. He entered the Upper South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South the next year and served appointments
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Man charged with posing as police officer
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
OCONEE COUNTY — A Pickens man faces several charges in Oconee County, including impersonating a law enforcement officer.
According to an Oconee County Sheriff’s Office release issued Friday, Jason Dwayne Whitlock, 42, of Edens Road, is charged with impersonating a law enforcement
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