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Flame advance to state title game

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

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

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

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 »

This week in the PICKENS COUNTY COURIER’s FOOTBALL FRENZY Sponsored by MOUNTAIN VIEW FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS

This week in the PICKENS COUNTY COURIER’s FOOTBALL FRENZY Sponsored by MOUNTAIN VIEW FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS

STILL SUPREME Lions take down Greer for seventh straight region championship Greenwood ends Easley’s season; Devils outlast Blacksburg;  pickens clinches More »

 

Courier Notice to Creditors 11-2-22

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES
All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on Form #371ES with the Probate Court of PICKENS COUNTY, the address of which is 222 MCDANIEL AVE., B-16 PICKENS, SC 29671, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the prescribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will

Courier Legal Notices 11-2-22

SUMMONS
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
COUNTY OF PICKENS
THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
CASE #: 2022-CP-39-0114

DONALD J. GRANT AND MARSHALL WAYNE GIBSON, PLAINTIFFS VS. PAUL L. SHULER, JR.,AND JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE, REPRESENTING ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR OTHER PERSON CLAIMING AN INTEREST, DEFENDANTS.

TO THE DEFENDANT:
You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action a copy of which is served on you and which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court this same date and to serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint upon the subscriber at 107 E. Main Street, P.O. Box 618, Pickens, South Carolina, 29671 within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to

Porter’s Chapel event to celebrate 190 years

PICKENS — Porter’s Chapel will host a 190th anniversary celebration this Saturday, Nov. 5 featuring a yard sale, bake sale, holiday bazaar, hot dog plates and gospel singing. The event will begin at 8 a.m. and run until everything is sold.

Porter’s Chapel is located at 152 E. Preston McDaniel Road in Pickens.

Historic Soapstone Baptist Church and grounds permanently protected

PICKENS — The six-acre property home to the historic Soapstone Baptist Church in Pickens County has been permanently protected through a conservation easement.

In addition to the church’s leadership, partners instrumental in the important conservation project include the South Carolina Conservation Bank, Upstate Forever and the Upstate Land Conservation Fund.

Soapstone Baptist Church was established more than 150 years ago in Liberia, a small community settled by formerly enslaved African

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SLED looking at deadly officer-involved shooting

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — State authorities are investigating after a carjacking suspect was shot to death in an incident involving local law enforcement last week in Easley.

Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the man as 26-year-old Thomas Christopher Wheeler of Latham Street in Easley.

Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chuck James said in a release that

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This week in FOOTBALL FRENZY

PICKENS BLANKS BEREA FOR FIRST REGION WIN 5B ,LIONS WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT REGION TITLE 2B,  WAVE CAN’T KEEP PACE WITH WESTSIDE 3B, >LIBERTY SHUT OUT BY LANDRUM 4B, TIGER COME BACK TO BEAT SYRACUSE 7B

   All this and so much more in this week’s FOOTBALL FRENZY, exclusively in the Pickens County Courier NOW ON SALE! Get the print edition at a grocery, drug or convenience store near you. LOGIN AND SEE ENTIRE SECTION!

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Early voting now available

By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — With early voting now open and Election Day quickly approaching on Nov. 8, Pickens County voters have plenty of decisions to make at the polls.

Democrat Claiborne Linvill and Republican Brad White will square off in a race to decide who fills the seat of Ensley Feemster, who decided

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Former deputy arrested on drug charge

EASLEY — An Easley man and former Greenville County Sheriff’s Office deputy is accused of providing drugs to a confidential informant.

Nicholas Craig Ison, 22, was arrested by S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents on

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Account tied to council hopeful had history of racist messages

By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com

CLEMSON — A social media account registered to Republican Pickens County Council nominee Brad White used racist and homophobic slurs and criticized Clemson businesses on numerous occasions over the past 22 months, including calling employees of a new downtown hotel that hires workers with intellectual disabilities “lazy,” a review from The Journal showed.

The email and phone number registered to Twitter user @Patriot76472267’s account matched White’s office cellphone and business email at

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Fellow Republicans quiet after offensive tweets come to light

By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com

CLEMSON — Republican officials had little to say Monday in response to a report published in The Journal over the weekend detailing racist and homophobic tweets posted by a Republican Pickens County Council candidate’s social media “burner” account.

Brad White said on Friday the tweets calling others “coons” and other attacks from the now-deleted Twitter user @Patriot76472267 were not his words and that “I didn’t make those.”

“I didn’t authorize him to make those very subjective and very horrible comments,” White said of the unidentified Charleston resident he

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