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Pickens County Courier readers cast more than 5,000 ballots for their favorite businesses from across the county, and the time has finally come to officially unveil the winners of the seventh-annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Check inside today’s issue for a special keepsake section listing the winners and honorable mentions across more than 100 categories.
Click below and see the all the winners that took home the title at Pickens County Courier Readers’ Choice as being the Best at what they do!
Car dealer Tommy Norris remembered for generosity
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Longtime local car dealer Tommy Norris is being remembered for his loyalty, generosity and his love of cars, both on the dealer lot and on the racetrack.
Norris died Saturday at age 78.
In 2014, Tommy Norris was named Time Magazine Automobile Dealer of the Year. He had been in the automobile industry nearly five decades.
Being part of management at Toyota of Greenville led to his developing a
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Understanding the significance of Juneteenth
EASLEY — The public is invited to join the Pickens County America 250 Committee on June 28 for a rare Revolutionary War-era slideshow presentation by noted Pickens County historian Dennis Chastain.
Th event will take place at 3 p.m. at the Capt. Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in
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Carolina Day in the Upcountry is June 28
EASLEY — The public is invited to join the Pickens County America 250 Committee on June 28 for a rare Revolutionary War-era slideshow presentation by noted Pickens 
County historian Dennis Chastain.
The event will take place at 3 p.m. at the Capt. Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in
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Easley intersection named after former State Sen. Larry Martin
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The intersection of U.S. Highway 123 and S.C. Highway 153 now bears the name of a man who long advocated for the extension of one of its component highways.
Saturday morning, a sign designating the Senator Larry A. Martin Intersection was unveiled.
Prior to serving in the S.C. Senate from 1992 to 2017, Martin served in the state’s
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SLED probing officer-involved May shooting
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating an officer-
involved shooting that took place last month in Central.
SLED spokeswoman Renée Wunderlich said in a release issued Friday that the Central Police Department requested the investigation following the shooting, which occurred on May 30.
Central police officers responded that day to the University Village apartment complex “to
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Easley prepares for city’s largest sewer project since 1980’s
EASLEY — Easley Combined Utilities (ECU) announces a multi-phase sewer project following the recent approval of the design contract with construction set to begin in 
late summer 2026. The project addresses the Brushy Creek, 18 Mile Creek, and Middle Branch sewer interceptors. Sewer interceptors are major pipelines that receive
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Father’s Day — A history
On July 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.” However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.
MOTHER’S DAY: INSPIRATION FOR FATHER’S DAY
The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrated “Mother’s Work Days” that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers. In 1870, the activist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation” calling on a “general congress
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