Liberty unveils 150th anniversary logo, announces art exhibition
LIBERTY — The city of Liberty celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2026, and officials unveiled a sesquicentennial logo for the More »
Prisma staff encourage early testing for flu
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com STATE — Prisma Health staff encourage the public to get tested for the flu More »
Daniel boys beat Pickens for region lead
PICKENS — With leading scorers Jackson Conley and Will Swann forced out of action early due to foul trouble and More »
Ballenger reflects on his career, legacy at Blue Ridge Electric
By Riley Morningstar Special to The Courier PICKENS — After 55 years of dedicated service, Terry Ballenger retired as the More »
Sunset Ceremony honors departed veterans
SIX MILE — As light winter rain fell at 5 p.m. on December 28, families, veterans, and community members gathered More »
Easley’s region title hopes dashed by TR
By Ryan Davenport
For The Courier
news@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The Easley Green Wave boys’ basketball team solidified its playoff spot, although a little 
short of the region championship they likely had in mind.
Only two teams from each region make the postseason in the pandemic-induced reduced playoff format, so Easley will be among the 16 Class 4A squads still in action statewide. That should lessen the sting of Friday night’s 51-34 loss in a winner-take-all matchup against Travelers Rest.
“We’ve still got basketball left,” Easley head coach Mike Jones said. “This isn’t the last game. We gotta
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Wave fall short of playoffs
By Ryan Davenport
For The Courier
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EASLEY — The 2020-2021 Easley Lady Green Wave basketball team should not hang their heads, from an outside perspective. To this talented group, it would probably be difficult to convey that 
fact.
This season’s edition of the Lady Green Wave finished 11-8 overall, with a 3-5 third-place finish among the five schools in Region I-4A. The Lady Green Wave amassed a collective total of 12 wins in the prior four seasons, finishing last in the region each of the previous three
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Pickens club volleyball team wins tourney
PICKENS — The Pickens Carolina One 18 Elite volleyball team went 5-0 and won the K2 Wilderness tournament Jan. 30-31 among a powerful group of teams playing in Sevierville, Tenn.
The Pickens Carolina One club volleyball team, which goes by the name “Pride,” features upper-level players from four area high schools: Pickens, Easley, Powdersville and Seneca. Pride is coached
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Daniel’s Hicks picked for state all-star team
CENTRAL — Daniel High School senior guard Sincere Hicks earned a prestigous accomplishment last week, as she was named to the roster of the Carolinas Classic All-Star Basketball Game.
However, the game, which annually pits the best players in the Carolinas against one another, won’t be played this season due to COVID-19.
Hicks, an all-state selection in 2020, is averaging 10.5 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 2.6 steals and 0.9 blocks per game this season for the Lions (10-5, 9-1 Western 3A).
We all want good government. Here’s how we can make it happen.
There’s a lot to unpack in “Uncovered,” an innovative collaborative project between The Post and Courier and several smaller newspapers across South Carolina that debuted in this week’s editions 
and will continue throughout this year. The stories essentially are an expose within an expose: an epic tale of governmental corruption on all scales, bad behavior that too often slips by state and federal law enforcement and increasingly goes unreported by journalists because many smaller newspapers have had
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Resist the devil and he will flee
Someone sent me a text the other day about all the trash talking during the Super Bowl and how it seemed to bother some of the players.
As a sports fan, I’ve watched the power of words throughout the years and remember that Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan, just to name a couple of athletes, also used this tactic to intimidate and frustrate the opposition. The idea is to lure someone you are battling against into listening to what you are saying in order to distract and confuse them. This attempt to rattle our competitor is associated with words such as discredit, mock, slander, belittle,
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Between woods and river
We grew up at Sycamore Hill, the name of Grandmama’s farm.
It was indeed in the middle of nowhere and far from any major city. Summers were long, and we 
depended on each other for playmates and companionship.
My brother and I had our cousins who were not too far away.
We played outside with hardly any adult supervision and had free rein of the woods, the pond and the rest of the farm. We could go to the river, but would never swim unless an adult was there.
It wasn’t known as Drowning Creek for nothing.
But although on our own much of the time, we were well equipped to run free. We knew what was expected
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Another COVID scam
You know it’s getting bad when local police chiefs go on the nightly news to warn against scams. That’s what is happening in my area, and possibly in yours. Scammers are going all out to steal your 
information, money and identity, and they’re using the COVID vaccine as their tool.
A few weeks ago, the scammers’ tactic was to claim we were eligible for a special COVID Medicare card. The card doesn’t exist. So many of us might have said that in response to the frequent phone calls that the scammers changed tactics. Now
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Courier Obituaries 2-17-21
MAT HERNDON
EASLEY — Claude Meadors “Mat” Herndon, 85, husband of Melissa Jane Durham Herndon, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.
Mat was born in Abbeville, the son of the late Edward Herndon and Corrine Bonds Sharpe. He was a graduate of Calhoun Falls High School and then served in the United States Army. After his service, he attended Newberry College, where he lettered in baseball and basketball. He later received his masters degree in education from Furman University and studied at both Clemson University and the University of South Carolina.
A lifelong educator, Mat taught and coached at Pickens High School, Abbeville High School and Byrnes High School prior to serving as principal of Pickens Junior High School. He went on to be the director of secondary education for the School District of Pickens County and retired as assistant superintendent in 1988.
Mat was a faithful and active member of Easley First Baptist
The pioneers of Pickens County
By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier
For the last two weeks, we have focused on the battle for civil rights nationally in the USA. Now we want to focus more on Pickens County. We obviously can’t focus on all the civil rights leaders. Again, I will focus on some of the pioneers whom I remember.
I entered Clemson University in the 1960s, beginning my work on a masters degree. There had been a young African-American, Harvey Gantt, who had been admitted after suing Clemson, and after having become the first African-American enrolled at a previously all-white institution in South Carolina.
Harvey Gantt: Activist, Pioneer, Architect, Mayor
Harvey Gantt was born in Charleston, where his father was employed at a shipyard. Harvey’s father was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the 
family discussed discrimination and civil rights openly
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