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LHS senior Nabors selected Liberty Community Scholar

LIBERTY — The Liberty Community Scholarship board has named Brooklyn Bret Nabors as the 2025 Small Business Scholarship recipient, awarded annually to an aspiring student who demonstrates business potential and a strong drive to create and execute innovative business ideas.

Nabors was chosen in recognition of her hard work and dedication in

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Courier Community Calendar 5-7-25

• Divine Purpose to host Gospel singing

Divine Purpose Outreach Ministry in Easley will be celebrating its 10 years of service with a Church Pre-Anniversary Gospel singing. The event will be held on May 17, at 4 p.m. Doors will open at 3 p.m. Divine Purpose Outreach is located at 103 West C Ave, in Easley. The program we will feature D.P.O.M. Praise Team, Sister Orrie Burdine, Charmain Madison, Voices of Union, Bethel Impact Church Praise Team, Worshipers 4 Christ, Psalmist Batista Carter and Minister Portia and LWO. There is no admission cost however The ministry will take up a love offering

• UFC plans open house on March 17

The Upstate Food Co-op (UFC) is holding an open house and member appreciation event on May 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 137 S. Main St. in Six Mile. As the only food co-op in Upstate SC, UFC is celebrating 47 years in business and the third year of our organic food garden. Stop by for a free goodies and sample bags, healthy food and beverage sample tastings, door prizes, a walk through the garden, chalk painting for kids and adults, free trial memberships. Be sure to sign up for the gift drawings. The UFC event will be held in conjunction with the 2025 Issaqueena Festival that is being held on Main Street.

• Legion Post 67 seeks members

American Legion Post 67 in Liberty is accepting applications for membership from all U.S. military wartime veterans. For more information, call (864) 787-2322.

• 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, May 8. There are set to be 10 games beginning at 7 p.m., and

Ground broken for new Pickens County hospital

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — Work is now underway on Prisma Health’s behavioral health hospital at the corner of US.. Highway 123 and S.C. Highway 153.

Hunter Kome, the CEO for Prisma Health’s Baptist Easley and Oconee Memorial hospitals, spoke at the Greater Easley Chamber of Commerce’s Chamber Luncheon on April 16. Prisma Health was the presenting sponsor of the luncheon.

Prisma Health is growing rapidly and seeing record volume, he said.

“Obviously, the big news here in Easley with Prisma Health is the behavioral health hospital,” Kome

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Man charged with attempted armed robbery

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — A man faces charges after an attempted armed robbery at an Easley clothing store last week.

Easley Police Department public information officer Lt. Ashley Anderson said in a release that officers  had responded to a report of an attempted armed robbery at Ross Dress for Less at 6101 Calhoun Memorial Highway at 8:45 p.m. Thursday, April 24.

Officers immediately began searching for the suspect, who had left

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Upstate Forever honors Shehan

GREENVILLE — Local nonprofit Upstate Forever celebrated the region’s conservation leaders this week at the 2025 ForeverGreen Annual Awards Luncheon. The organization also announced the culmination of its “Generations Campaign” at the event, an initiative to fund its work for the years to come.

Held April 22 at The Annex at Judson Mill in Greenville, the ForeverGreen luncheon recognized outstanding contributions to land conservation, water resource protection and public service in Upstate South Carolina. This year’s award recipients included:

Clean Water Champion: Melanie Ruhlman, president of Save Our Saluda, for her tireless efforts to

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Meals on Wheels to host annual Willis Car Show

EASLEY — Pickens County Meals on Wheels (PCMOW) has announced the return of the John Willis Car Show, presented by State Farm’s Daniel Crosby Agency on Saturday, May 3, at Old Market Square in downtown Easley.

The annual event honors the late John Willis, a retired Easley firefighter and

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Mountain Roots Herb Festival returns to Hagood Mill, May 17

PICKENS — The Hagood Mill Historic Site invites families, nature lovers and curious minds to celebrate the return of the Mountain Roots Herb Festival from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, May 17.

The Third Saturday event celebrates all things outdoors and

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Mobile medical clinic to be at Six Mile Baptist Church’s Roper Building in May

SIX MILE — A mobile medical clinic is scheduled to be in Six Mile on Thursday, May 8.

Held at Six Mile Baptist Church’s Roper Building, the event will be presented by the Samaritan Health Clinic of Pickens County in conjuction with the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM). The clinic will operate from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and will offer a range of medical and health care at

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Holly Springs Center to host community homecoming in May

PICKENS — From 10 a.m.-5 p.m. this Saturday, May 3, the Holly Springs Center will celebrate its past and its future by hosting a community homecoming, showcasing its current programming as a community center featuring a preschool and mountain arts program while welcoming back alumni of the Holly Springs School, which dates

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Clemson professor faces charges for exploiting minors

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

CLEMSON — A Clemson University professor faces charges related to the sexual exploitation of minors in two counties.

According to a release issued Wednesday, April 16, 46-year-old Jeffrey Douglas Townsend is accused of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material

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