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Six Mile OKs closing costs for children’s nature walk
By Lauren Pierce
Courtesy The Journal
lpierce@upstatetoday.com
SIX MILE — Six Mile Town Council approved a final reading last week to spend no more than $15,000 from the town’s general fund for closing costs on 65 acres gifted to the town for a children’s nature walk.
Located off Six Mile Highway adjacent to Six Mile Elementary School, the land was gifted by the late Conrad Ardell Bryson’s estate for
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Death ruled justifiable homicide
Four arrested in connection with Piedmont man’s killing
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — Several men face charges in connection with a fatal shooting last month, but none have been charged with murder, according to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.
On Dec. 19, deputies responded to a disturbance call at 346 Stewart Gin Road in Liberty.
A man’s body was found in the yard with an apparent gunshot wound. The Pickens County
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Deputies look for robbery suspects
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is seeking two suspects who robbed an Easley convenience store last week.
According to a release from the sheriff’s office, deputies responded to the Spinx convenience store at 4283 Calhoun Memorial Highway in Easley in the early morning
hours of Dec. 29 about a reported armed robbery.
A cashier told deputies two people entered the store brandishing a handgun, the release said.
Before fleeing on foot, the two people
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Six Mile park construction to pick up
Six Mile town clerk Rita Martin said last week the town is working with two engineers and an architect on design plans for the Six Mile Community Park on Main Street. “The first thing we’re going to start doing is the pavilion,” she said. “And we’ve got drawings, architectural drawings, but the holidays have sort of put a stop there. But hopefully, once the year gets rolling, hopefully we’ll actually get to start on that. We’ve not actually constructed anything out there, but if you take a look, you can see little markers and where they’ve cut limbs off of trees to actually be ready to have it start to go up.”
Pickens County basketball teams compete in holiday tournaments
COUNTY — With region play beckoning this month, five of Pickens County’s eight high school basketball teams participated in tournaments over the holidays in the hopes of improving their team as they head into the meat of their schedule.
One of the most successful teams over the break was the Easley High School girls’ basketball team. The Green Wave, competing in the New Year’s Classic hosted by Eastside High School, went 2-1 in tournament play and finished as
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Milestone win concludes atypical season for Swinney and Tigers
By Alex Dodd
Courtesy The Journal
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ORLANDO, Fla. — When the Clemson football team dropped to 4-3 on the season after a lopsided loss at Pittsburgh on Oct. 23, many wrote off any possibility of a positive finish to the Tigers’ season.
But Dabo Swinney and his team stayed the course.
The Tigers capped off their 11th straight 10-win season — becoming just the third program in college football history to achieve the feat — last week with a 20-13 win over Iowa State in the Cheez-It Bowl at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla.
During Swinney’s tenure, Clemson has won a pair of national titles, played in six straight College Football Playoffs and won the ACC seven times in the last decade.
However, this season proved to be perhaps his best, as he became just the third college football
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Nonprofit gets grant to protect water quality in Upper Saluda Watershed
COUNTY — An Upstate nonprofit announced a $550,000 grant award from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to protect water quality in the Upper Saluda Watershed last week.
The grant will allow Save Our Saluda and partnering organizations to work with local landowners and farmers within the watershed to develop and implement projects aimed at reducing soil runoff to streams and rivers upstream of Saluda Lake.
The Upper Saluda Watershed above Saluda Lake encompasses nearly 300 square miles in Greenville and Pickens counties and provides
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Officials hoping action will lead to water plant
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Officials hope the passage of a resolution will help enable the creation of a water plant on Lake Keowee that would serve Pickens County residents.
Pickens County Council members discussed a resolution “in support of regional water solutions within Pickens County” during their Dec. 6 meeting.
“This is the first step of us being able to put a water plant on Keowee, bring all of our water districts together and be able to get water from
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DHEC urging flu shots before surge
COLUMBIA — Flu season runs from September to May, but peaks from December to February.
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is urging people to get the flu vaccine after the agency said last week its latest flu report was significantly higher than the past two years.
The flu report Dec. 5-11 showed 775 lab-confirmed cases across the state,You must be logged in to view this content.
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