Area schools see movement in new SCHSL realignment
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — The South Carolina High School League () announced the classification placement for More »
Liberty leaders receive update on developing water system
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com LIBERTY — Efforts to create a water system “for Pickens County people” remain on More »
Wreaths Across America ceremonies held across county
COUNTY — Multiple ceremonies were held across Pickens County earlier this month in honor of National Wreaths Across America More »
Merry Christmas
Mountain View Funerals and Cremations owner Wes Hiott, along with Santa Greg, delivered Christmas gift baskets last week to the More »
Absentee voting available now
PICKENS — With municipal elections less than two weeks away, Pickens County voters still have time to request absentee ballots for the Nov. 2 election.
The election, which has open seats in Central, Easley, Liberty, Norris, Pickens and Six Mile, is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 2. However, those who wish to vote absentee beforehand may request an application for an absentee ballot either by calling
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Easley man charged with sex crimes
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — An Easley man faces charges connected to the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
Kevin Jamal Jones, 46, of Easley, was arrested Oct. 8 by Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigators with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, Wilson announced on Oct. 12.
Investigators received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing
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On EMS issues
I’ve been living in Easley now for almost 27 years and I’ve never called the fire department. We’ve also never called the police department, except for non-emergency things.
I’ve only called the EMS one time, but, as it turned out, they saved my wife’s life.
I imagine the odds are probably pretty slim that I’ll ever need the fire department — although I’m certainly glad they’re there. More than likely, I’m not going to need the police for any life-and-death emergency, either, but I’m thankful for them, too.
I hope I never have to call for an ambulance again, but there’s a pretty fair chance that it could happen sometime in the next 27 years.
I’d like to feel pretty confident that if we have a medical crisis, the guys who are coming to handle it are well-rested, well-trained, happy with
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Pill Take Back Day planned Saturday
COUNTY — The upcoming National Pill Take Back Day allows Pickens County residents to get rid of unwanted, 
unneeded and expired prescription pills.
The fall National Pill Take Back Day will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 23.
In Pickens County, pills can be dropped off at AnMed Health Cannon Hospital (123 W.G. Acker Drive, Pickens), Prisma Health Baptist Easley (200 Fleetwood Drive, Easley) and the
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COVID deaths down
COLUMBIA — After reporting double-digit deaths each week over the past month, Pickens County has seen a 
decline in both cases and deaths from COVID-19, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), with seven confirmed deaths reported this week.
According to DHEC, the number of confirmed cases in the county rose by 349 last week, when the county’s number of confirmed cases reached 24,993. As of Monday, the county had 400 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths and 47 probable deaths.
The great mystery of the fitted sheet
I don’t know if this is true or not, but it may be. My theory is that there is a giant secret society in the world whose members have been entrusted with the classified information of how to fold a fitted sheet so it looks like it did when 
removed from the store packaging.
It’s important that this information be kept secret so that the majority of the world’s citizens who use fitted sheets when they make their beds will feel inadequate.
Those who are in the know have a special aura. They radiate
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Pumpkins, ghosts, witches and apples
Halloween is fast approaching, and ghosts have begun to practice their materializing skills, witches are dusting off their brooms and vampires are pulling their capes out of mothballs.
Halloween is a tradition that originated with the Celtic festival of Samhain. Many Celts settled in this area of the Carolinas, where they continued the old custom of lighting bonfires to ward off ghosts. Samhain marked the end of summer, which also meant the end of the bountiful harvest season and the beginning of the cold, dark winter season. But that was more than 2,000 years ago, and Halloween has
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Wherever you are, He is with you
For those who try to live for the Lord and want to please Him, I’m sure you know what I mean when I say there are times when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
When it comes to maintaining a red-hot enthusiasm for the Christian life, we are not robots, but rather we are 
emotional humans who have good days along with other times that are clouded with with feelings of melancholy. It does the heart good to quietly sit alone as we search within our soul trying to figure out what is wrong. It could be a nagging sin where we should have stood strong against it but instead we gave it control. God promises that in the midst of our misery there is nothing we can do that will make Him love us any less. Or maybe our hearts are weighed down with
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Playing the national debt challenge
Dear Editor,
Back in the 1950s, rival teenage hoodlum gangs would play out a challenge with their fast hotrod cars. Two boys would race toward each other, or toward a cliff. The first to swerve or bail out would be the loser — the chicken. Playing the national debt game has become like that. So has the federal budget with the government shutdown game.
Adult men and women in Congress and the executive branch, charged with governing a nation, have divided themselves into rival gangs, fighting each other over political turf, power, control, influence. They hold the debt limit or budget hostage for ransom or blackmail until one side or the other backs down and turns chicken. Meanwhile, the nation and people suffer the consequence, like the neighborhoods did when the hoodlum gangs
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Grand opening
On Saturday, Oct. 9, Mattress Store By Wilson owners Kim and James Wilson cut the ribbon on their new showroom, located at 2700 Gentry Memorial Highway in Pickens. On hand were family, friends and members of the community. The larger space allows the business to not only display mattresses and bedroom sets, but living room, dining room, rugs and home accessories. Mattress Store By Wilson is open from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
