Category Archives: News
DAR chapter holds annual awards meeting
COUNTY — Fort Prince George Chapter DAR members honored local students with awards at its annual awards meeting last month. The students’ family and teachers were there to honor their schools’ winners.
National Defender Committee chair Renee Castor presented this year’s winners of the DAR Good Citizen Award with a certificate and a medal. The winners were Carys Waddington of Easley High School, Breylen Cobb of Liberty High School
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Enhance grilled meats with marinades
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
If you want to make your own marinades for grilling, it isn’t difficult. Marinades can do a lot of things to improve grilled meats, which can be dry and leathery. The flavors of the marinade don’t overpower the meat, but do help tenderize and keep meats moist.
Make sure the meat is done, but don’t overcook. You know your grill best and the temperatures needed to get the best from whatever recipe you cook.
I hope you enjoy these.
Primary set for Tuesday
PICKENS — With less than a week remaining until Tuesday’s statewide party primary elections, Pickens County voters still have time to make their mind up on races in the area.
With incumbent Pickens County Councilmen Trey Whitehurst not running for reelection, current Pickens County School Board member Phillip Bowers and local businessman Chris Lollis are facing off
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Behavioral Health helps clients find ‘a fresh start’
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — It may be hard to believe that an agency that’s nearly 50 years old and is housed in three different buildings on Main Street in Pickens is unknown to people in the area.
But many people in Pickens County don’t know where Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County is or what it does for its clients and the community.
BHSPC’s staff and their work were celebrated at a Community Connections for Recovery benefit
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
SC counties, utilities taking more active role in conservation projects
Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in The (Charleston) Post and Courier.
Last month, the Greenville-based Naturaland Trust announced the protection of River Falls, a 170-acre tract located along the Middle Saluda River that ultimately will fold into and expand the footprint of Jones Gap State Park.
The property itself is quite impressive, with vistas of both the river and the mountainscape, diverse wildlife habitat and opportunities for trout fishing and other outdoor pursuits. Perhaps even more importantly, it will provide a new access point and much-needed additional parking for the larger park, which currently accommodates roughly 30 vehicles and often reaches capacity within moments of opening.
What makes this project exceptional — beyond the positive land protection and public access outcomes — is that
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Clemson-led research team launch rockets into aurora borealis to study dynamics of energy exchange
CLEMSON — As the Northern Lights danced over Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks, Alaska, early one morning in April, a team of researchers led by 
Clemson University assistant professor of physics Stephen Kaeppler launched a sounding rocket into the colorful aerial display.
Three minutes later, the scientists launched a second rocket.
The researchers launched the rockets to study how energy behaves during an
You must be logged in to view this content.
Subscribe Today or Login
Thank you, Mayor Perry
The Pickens Rec 12U Dominators took time recently to honor Pickens Mayor Fletcher Perry for speaking to the team about how life was in Pickens during his youth. Perry inspired the team, speaking about his journey over the years to becoming mayor. Perry also took time to play ball with the team, standing in at first base. The team presented Perry with an autographed picture and a signed baseball with all the player names. Below, following the presentation to Perry, the team got a chance to hear from former big league baseball player Chuck Jackson, who played for both the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers. Jackson entertain the boys with stories of his years on the diamond.
