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Devils dropped by Wildcats in third round
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
NINETY SIX — Looking for their third consecutive trip to the Upper State championship, the Liberty Red Devil volleyball team travelled to Ninety Six High School last Wednesday to take on the Wildcats.
Despite back-and-forth battles throughout the match’s four sets, the Red Devils were unable to reclaim their spot in the upper state match,
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Help is on the way
$95 million to fund SC 183 expansion, improvements
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — A highway in Pickens County that has long needed attention will receive more than $95 million to fund improvements.
State and local officials have a message for drivers frustrated with the traffic and safety issues on S.C. Highway 183.
“Help is on the way,” Pickens County administrator Ken Roper said during a news conference Friday morning in county
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Fight to the finish DONT MISS THIS WEEK’S “FRENZY”
Red devils use fourth quarter comeback to top Landrum, Lions win region title, > Injuries doom Wave against Rams, Flame lose on late Berea score and Tigers fall to Miami in 2OT.
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Local elections two weeks away
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — With less than two weeks until voters go the polls, the races are heating up in municipalities around Pickens County.
Candidates in Central, Easley, Liberty, Norris, Pickens and Six Mile are all vying to serve their communities in municipal government.
Easley, Norris, Pickens and Six Mile will all have mayoral elections on the ballot this year. Two incumbent mayors will be running for reelection, with Easley’s Butch Womack attempting to hold off challenges from David Cox and Lisa Talbert and Norris Mayor Odell Williams
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Drug Take Back Day this weekend
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Many people are aware of the dangers that can result from taking too many prescription medications or mixing them with alcohol and other drugs — dangers that can result in injuries or even death.
But unused, unneeded and expired prescription medications carry other
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Semper Fi Barn hosting final group event of year to honor fallen Marines
CENTRAL — The Semper Fi Barn will be hosting its final group event of the year this Sunday at 6 p.m.
CEO and founder Tom von Kaenel told The Journal that 241 Marines who were murdered in barracks in Lebanon on Oct. 23, 1983, will be remembered in a ceremony hanging individual dog tags of those killed and the playing of taps. A release from Von Kaenel, a 20-year Army
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Spooky Halloween Fun 10-25-23
Pickens County is ready to celebrate the spooky season, with events planned around the area throughout the rest of the month.
EASLEY, OCT. 27
Easley will host the county’s next event from 6:30-8:30 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 27, at Old Market Square.
The event will give folks a chance to hang out with the community, trunk or treat, take pictures, listen to live music by The Flashbacks and meet the Sanderson Sisters of “Hocus Pocus” fame. Look for the Pickens County Courier booth to say hello to our staff at this event.
SIX MILE, OCT. 28
Mile Creek Baptist Church will hold its third annual trunk-or-treat from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. Mile Creek Baptist is located at 104 Lakeside Drive in Six Mile.
PICKENS, OCT. 28
Go back in time to a special place where boys and girls of all ages can celebrate and best of all, enjoy their Halloween. All are invited to join the fun at 719 E. Cedar Rock St. in Pickens for the second annual Wilson’s Halloween Spook-tacular, hosted by Stephanie and Ray Wilson. The scary fun will be across from Manna Rehab Center this Saturday, Oct. 28, from 5-9 p.m. Trick-or-treaters can walk
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Mountain Music
The Greater Pickens Chamber of Commerce hosted the inaugural Pickens Appalachian Folk Festival last weekend at the Pickens Amphitheater hosting a multitude of people from around the Upstate. The Bear Creek String Bandits, pictured above performing on Saturday morning, were one of five groups that paid tribute to the vibrant Appalachian heritage of Northern Pickens County and the Upstate of South Carolina. Rocky Nimmons/Courier
Candidate forum set for Pickens city races
PICKENS — Pickens residents looking for more information about the people running for Pickens City Council and the city’s mayor’s seat
will soon get their chance.
A candidate forum is planned for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Pickens Senior Center. All
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