‘Long overdue’
Monument to Andrew Pickens to highlight Legacy Square By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com PICKENS — Those passing by Legacy More »
Easley thrift store aims to help others
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com EASLEY — The operator of DH Tiny Homes Thrift Store hopes his small store More »
America’s top chocolate shop has local roots
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com GREENVILLE — A business owned by a Pickens resident recently received national recognition. Last More »
Local municipalities plan Fourth of July events
COUNTY — With the nation getting ready to observe its 249th Independence Day, people from around Pickens County will have More »
Banjo Extravaganza is July18-19
PICKENS — The Banjo Extravaganza Festival returns to the Hagood Mill Historic Site on Friday, July 18, and Saturday, July More »
Behavioral Health helps clients find ‘a fresh start’
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — It may be hard to believe that an agency that’s nearly 50 years old and is housed in three different buildings on Main Street in Pickens is unknown to people in the area.
But many people in Pickens County don’t know where Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County is or what it does for its clients and the community.
BHSPC’s staff and their work were celebrated at a Community Connections for Recovery benefit
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SC counties, utilities taking more active role in conservation projects
Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in The (Charleston) Post and Courier.
Last month, the Greenville-based Naturaland Trust announced the protection of River Falls, a 170-acre tract located along the Middle Saluda River that ultimately will fold into and expand the footprint of Jones Gap State Park.
The property itself is quite impressive, with vistas of both the river and the mountainscape, diverse wildlife habitat and opportunities for trout fishing and other outdoor pursuits. Perhaps even more importantly, it will provide a new access point and much-needed additional parking for the larger park, which currently accommodates roughly 30 vehicles and often reaches capacity within moments of opening.
What makes this project exceptional — beyond the positive land protection and public access outcomes — is that
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Highway 11 standards headed to committee
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — Pickens County Council will further discuss an ordinance establishing development standards along S.C. Highway 11 after residents, attorneys and council members questioned some of the details in the ordinance, as well as in a report from the Appalachian Council of Governments.
Council members discussed the issue before a proposed second reading of the ordinance during their meeting on
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SDPC budget squeaks through on final vote
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
EASLEY — The School District of Pickens County’s fiscal year 2023 budget squeaked by on final reading at the school board’s Friday meeting.
The nearly $149 million budget was approved by a 4-3 vote, with chairwoman Betty Bagley and board members Phillip Bowers and Amy Williams voting in
opposition.
Bowers said he was concerned the district was “growing spending too fast.”
“We’re doing a lot of good stuff. But I look back at ’19 … I think we
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Easley OKs fix for collecting grass clippings
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Easley officials have approved a fix that will allow the city to pick up grass clippings once again.
Citing expensive damage to the city’s vacuum trucks caused by grass clippings, Easley City Council passed a resolution
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Nonprofit collecting hats for elderly men
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — A local nonprofit that collects items for area seniors has announced its June donation drive.
Members of Warmth and Comfort for the Elderly in Upstate SC use their crochet skills to provide warm items for nursing home patients, hospice groups, home health patients and elderly people who live at home and can’t afford them.
They also hold regular donation drives.
“During the month of June, we will be collecting hats for the gentlemen in health facilities and shut-ins,” said Tammy Ferguson, the group’s CEO. “These may
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‘I regret this is the ultimatum I was given’: Steadman out as Clemson planning director
By Greg Oliver
Courtesy The Journal
goliver@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — After serving Clemson for nine years, first as zoning director and eventually as planning and codes director, Todd Steadman and the city have parted ways.
Although city administrator Andy Blondeau told The Journal Steadman resigned, his May 18 resignation letter provided by the city said his decision came “based on the ultimatum I was given today to either resign or be terminated against my will.”
“I regret this is the ultimatum I was given as I have enjoyed serving my city for the past nine plus years and would
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Courier Obituaries 6-8-22
STEVEN KENT O’SHIELDS
SURFSIDE BEACH — Steven Kent O’Shields, 67, went to be with Jesus on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach.
Born in Greenville, he was the loving husband of Karen Sellers O’Shields (Kay) and a son of Frances Eleanor O’Shields and the late James Arthur O’Shields.
Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Alex O’Shields (Lynn) and Brian O’Shields (Averie), both of Easley; stepdaughter, Stacy Browder (Jonathan); stepsons, Scott Patterson (Shay), Will Lovern (Lyndsey) and Grayson
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Good things come to those who wait
This one falls under the heading of, “You Just Never Know.”
There is a news peg at the end, so please bear with me as I take a quick stroll down Memory Lane to give you the background.
Rewind the tape to 1974.
One night, not long after my brother Paul and I had moved to Macon, Ga., to become starving musicians, a knock came on our apartment door.
We weren’t expecting company.
It was a high school kid. Well, he was two or three years younger than us, so he seemed like a kid. I think he was a
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It was hot enough for us
I suppose, unless you live here, coming to the South from other parts in July can be a shock to the system.
It’s just something we don’t think about. It’s our normal.
But I’ll take it over cold weather. It was July 1996 in Atlanta, Ga. The Olympics were in full swing, and my cousins had tickets to the equestrian events. They invited me to go. So very early in the morning, we went to the Amtrak station in Clemson, and I took the train to Atlanta. My cousin Bill met me at the station and we drove through town to their house. Downtown Atlanta was deserted. I’d never seen it like that before. We were in one of the only
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