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School district announces new leadership roles
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — The School District of Pickens County will see plenty of fresh and familiar faces in new roles in the coming months after five leadership position changes approved by school board trustees last week.
Brad Blackston (director of adult education), Chris Brewington (principal, East End Elementary School), Carrie Gregory (director of health services) and Lenette Hernandez (director of multilingual services) will begin in their new
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Thomas among Upstate’s best real estate agents
PICKENS — Megan Thomas of Thomas Realty in Pickens was recently honored as one of the top real estate agents in the Upstate.
Out of almost 10,000 local agents, Thomas ranked in the top 100 residential real estate agents from the 2023 real estate year.
Thomas’ results put you in the top 1 percent of residential real estate agents out of the GGAR MLS and the Western Upstate MLS from last year (based on 2023 on-market local sales within the county).
Thomas made a significant impact on Upstate South Carolina and its communities. She will be presented her award and honored at the “Upstate Real Producers Choice Awards” on March 20 in Greenville.
County basketball players honored
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — With South Carolina’s high school basketball season coming to an end last week, multiple awards and recognitions have come in for Pickens County players.
The highest honors came for Daniel’s Lila Mann and Pickens’ Maggie Chambers and Ava Owens, as they were named
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DAR brings ‘Love and Goodies’
CLEMSON — Residents at Richard Campbell Veterans Home and Everlan and Dominion Senior Living were surprised with Valentine Love and Goodies by Clemson Members of Fort Prince George Chapter Daughters of the
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Open Book Project has new home in Easley
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A local nonprofit dedicated to nurturing a love of reading now has “a permanent home base in Easley.”
The Open Book Project held a ribbon cutting for its new space at 213 E. 1st Ave. in Easley on Friday morning.
The Open Book Project holds quarterly fundraisers each year.
“The proceeds that we make from each of those fundraisers fund our grant recipients through our Lottery Box of Giving program,” said Samantha Jones,
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A True Sense of Place and Belonging
By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier
For Black History Month, we have focused on the book Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian 
Community, by Dr. John M. Coggeshall, an Anthropologist and Professor at Clemson University. Liberia is a historic community that dates back to the abolition of slavery here in upper Pickens County, South Carolina. Soapstone Baptist Church and Soapstone School date back to the Emancipation Proclamation, and are part of a community
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PHS hosts Charles Johnson Raider competition
PICKENS — On Saturday, Feb. 17, the Pickens High School JROTC program hosted the first-ever U.S. Army Specialist Charles Johnson Raider competition, joined by teams from the Liberty, Daniel, West-Oak and Spring 
Valley JROTC programs.
Raiders is an after-school team offered only through
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