Flame advance to state title game
By Bru Nimmons Sports Editor bnimmons@thepccourier.com PICKENS — With a trip to the Class 4A state championship on the line, More »
ElringKlinger to create 294 jobs in Easley
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com EASLEY — A company that announced it was coming to Pickens County last summer More »
Area groups discuss SNAP
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — Nearly 20 dozen area organizations and groups met last week to discuss More »
Former Easley mayor faces ethics complaint
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com STATE — The South Carolina Ethics Commission held a hearing last month about an More »
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Sheriff wants ‘culture of service’ at PCSO
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Pickens County Sheriff Tommy Blankenship spoke about the sheriff’s office’s community outreach efforts and its staffing needs at a recent meeting of Pickens United.
“We’ve had a lot of changes, mostly internally, focused a lot on the culture of our agency, moving it toward what it should be — a culture of service,” Blankenship said at the Sept. 29 meeting.
He said the sheriff’s office has an updated mission statement. It reads, in part, “Beyond
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Area woman dies in Hwy. 178 car wreck
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — A Liberty woman has been identified as the victim in a fatal two-vehicle collision last week.
Pickens County chief deputy coroner Tommy Page said in a release that Pickens County Emergency Medical Services responded to a two-vehicle wreck on U.S. Highway 178 at Pickens Drive in Liberty on Friday. Page said he also responded to the scene.
A passenger car had crossed the centerline of the highway
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Leadership Pickens County Announces 25-26’ Participants
EASLEY — Leadership Pickens County recently announced the participants of Class XXXIV(2025–2026). This prestigious program, sponsored by the Greater Easley, Clemson, and Pickens Chambers of Commerce, continues its mission of cultivating informed, committed, and qualified leaders who are 
dedicated to serving Pickens County.
Leadership Pickens County provides participants with an in-depth look at the county’s resources, opportunities, challenges, and needs. Through a series of monthly sessions, class members gain first-hand experience in areas such as government, education, healthcare, business, human services, and quality of
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PC Republicans slated to host candidate forum
PICKENS — The Pickens County Republican Club will host a City of Pickens City Council Candidate Forum on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Hagood Community Center.
This public event offers voters an opportunity to hear directly from candidates running for City Council before Election Day and early voting which launches Oct. 20.
Members of the media are invited to attend and cover the event. Opportunities will be available for brief
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Liberty, Pickens athletes hit milestones
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Two local athletes have hit milestones in recent weeks as the fall sport season prepares to head down the stretch.
Aubrey Moore, a volleyball player at Liberty High School, and Ella Tetor, a cross-country athlete at 
Pickens High School, were recently recognized for their accomplishments.
Moore, a junior setter for the Red Devils, surpassed 1,000 career assists during Liberty’s 3-0 loss to
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Local papers keep communities strong
Strong communities don’t just happen. They rely on connection—residents knowing what’s going on, 
businesses reaching the customers who keep them open and citizens having the facts to make good decisions. Local newspapers provide that connection in ways no other source can.
In today’s fractured media environment, trust is the rarest commodity. Confidence in “the media” is low. Only 18 percent of Americans say they trust news on social platforms and fewer than one in four trust cable networks. But nearly two-thirds say they trust their local newspaper—more than double the confidence placed in most other outlets.
In an era when anyone can post anything online, that clarity makes newspapers stand apart.
Newspapers provide the facts that keep civic life running: city budgets, school board debates and local elections that rarely make national headlines but matter most to daily life. They also highlight the
The original AI: Newspapers run on accurate information
Artificial intelligence is going to transform everything we watch, hear and read. You can already see it happening.
Asking and AI search engine a question about an obscure fact can yield quick and surprisingly detailed responses. Type in a cellphone model number and you’re suddenly a highly informed consumer. And when it comes to transforming legendary television show casts into babies, AI is world-class.
But news? AI-fueled news poses problems.
The first is that news is about reality. AI provides tools to
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Washing the stains and ironing the wrinkles
Humans do not enjoy being told that God will judge every person, and one day we will meet Him face-to-face and give an account of our lives.
This is not an idea created by Bible teachers to scare people; it’s a truth relayed from what God has promised in His Word. There are many strange opinions about who God is, what He wants, and our responsibilities as His followers, but the bottom line to lenient interpretations can be explained. Humans are crafty creatures who are always looking to receive something for nothing. Our ability and desire to live in denial intentionally prevent us
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Don’t touch the thermostat
By the time you read this, many of us in cold-weather areas will be listening for (and dreading) the click sound that heralds the arrival of warm air through the furnace vents. The dread comes in when we 
mentally calculate just how much it’s costing us to stay warm.
The temptation, always, is to set the thermostat at a lower temperature and cut costs. However, for seniors this can be dangerous. We’re no longer physically equipped to handle
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Like on bird’s feet
Matthew 6:26 “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
As a young boy roaming around the fields and forests of Western Kentucky, seen were many of the works of our Creator and I had not a clue what was being witnessed.
One example is fish in a farm pond that had not been stocked with fish. A local farmer had a new pond
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