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LWVOP receives empowerment grant to expand local voter education efforts
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Courier Legal Notices 5-22-19
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF PICKENS
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
C/A NO.: 2017CP3901406
(Non-Jury)
QUIET TITLE ACTION
Nathan van Hoff, Plaintiff v. John Doe & Mary Roe, fictitious names used to designate all unknown persons who claim any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described herein, anyone who may be in the military, infants, incompetents, or anyone under legal disability, et al.,
TO: THE DEFENDANT(S) NAMED HEREIN:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint of the Plaintiff in the foregoing cause of action, a copy of which is served herewith upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at the offices of
Courier Notice to Creditors 5-22-19
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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
Courier Trespass Notices 5-22-19
In the state of South Carolina, trespass after notice is a misdemeanor criminal offense prohibited by section 16-11-620 for the South Carolina Code.
Those who enter upon the lands of others without the permission of the owner or manager shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor trespassing. All persons are hereby notified and warned not to hunt, fish, cut timber or trespass in any manner whatsoever upon the
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Honoring Confederate Service for Benjamin Pinckney Duckworth is Saturday
PICKENS — On Saturday, May 18 at Secona Baptist Church in Pickens, there will be an Honoring Confederate Service for Benjamin 
Pinckney Duckworth Griffin of Fort Sumter, SC.
Dr. Ben P. Griffin known as “Cow Doctor” will be represented by his descendants and friends. All are invited to attend this service that begins at 4 p.m.
The event is sponsored by Pickens County Historical Society, James L. Orr Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Faith Clayton Family Research Center, Southern Wesleyan University
‘Dark Days’
Supporters speak out in wake of mill director’s firing
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Supporters of former Hagood Mill director Billy Crawford packed Pickens County Council chambers Monday night to protest his firing.
Crawford was terminated May 2, and Hagood Mill Foundation chair Betty McDaniel resigned after the firing. During the public forum portion of Monday’s council meeting, several residents spoke in support of Crawford.
Dean Watson said these are “dark days” for the mill and Pickens County.
“It’s been two long, sad years seeing the corruption, the ineptitude, cronyism,” Watson said. “Nepotism. It’s called friends and family getting preferential hiring — and outright bullying and intimidation of employees.”
A tourism consultant, Watson said he’d offered to meet with county officials “to discuss solutions to problems at the mill,” but his offer had not been accepted.
He told council “the situation is dire.”
“It needs to be corrected, and you six men are the ones to do it,” he said.
Marianne Hoynes said she began volunteering at the mill after being “very, very impressed” when visiting the mill herself.
“But it was really hard to hear whenever Billy’s boss would come around, it was very hard to hear him being denigrated the way he was, talked
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PCSO: Kids shot loaded school bus
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
SIX MILE — A 15-year-old and an 11-year-old are facing charges after police said they shot a Pickens County school bus full of children with an air gun last week.
The two are each charged with malicious damage to property with a value less than $2,000, second-degree assault and battery and interfering with the operation of a school bus, Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Hashe said in a news release Thursday.
The sheriff’s office was notified just before 4 p.m. on May 8 that a window on the bus was damaged as it was traveling on Bridwell
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Clary won’t seek re-election for State House seat
By Greg Oliver
Courtesy The Journal
goliver@upstatetoday.com
CENTRAL — State Rep. Gary Clary announced Friday he does not plan to seek re-election next year.
“It’s something I’ve been thinking about since earlier this year,” Clary said. “The timing seemed right. Three terms seemed to be right 
in Columbia, but I’m proud of what I accomplished in Columbia.”
A retired circuit judge, Clary was elected to the House in 2014 after longtime incumbent B.R. Skelton decided not to run for another term. During his time in the General Assembly, Clary has worked with the Pickens County Legislative Delegation on a number of issues, including creation of a seventh school board seat in the county, resolving the county’s coal ash controversy and improving the relationship between the delegation and county council that led to the forming of Pickens United, which meets regularly.
“Those things have been very gratifying, and I think Pickens County is poised to continue to grow and develop and continue to be one of the leaders in South Carolina,” Clary said.
Clary’s legislative achievements include the creation of the Lakes and Bridges Charter School and the Tucker Hipps bill, signed last week by Gov. Henry McMaster, making permanent a law originally passed several years ago requiring fraternities and sororities
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Central closing in on police chief hire
By Greg Oliver
Courtesy The Journal
goliver@upstatetoday.com
CENTRAL — Two finalists have been named for the vacant Central police chief job, including one current department employee.
Town administrator Phillip Mishoe said last week that Central Police Sgt. Steve Thompson and Steven Miller of the Clemson University Police Department are the top choices to succeed former Chief Khristy Justice, who resigned earlier this year. Town council members were scheduled to interview the two on Monday night.
“We think we’ve got two really good candidates and want to go ahead and sit down and talk to them,” Mishoe
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Speeding tickets and story idea strikeouts
First, a shout out to Patrolwoman Lindsay Mason of the Pickens Police Department.
As I was roaring down Main Street one day last week at, according to her, 41 mph, in a section where I thought the speed limit was 35, she pulled me over and very politely informed me of my transgression.
Undeterred by the fact that I am a local celebrity and on a first-name basis with the mayor, and that I once taught guitar lessons to the current Pickens County administrator and went to high school with a current United States senator and have performed on stage with Percy Sledge and James Brown, she proceeded to write out a ticket. (No, I didn’t tell her all that, but I assume it’s common knowledge.)
She did have the compassion to mark it down to appear as though I was going only 32 mph in a 25 mph zone. But it was still a 2-point violation and a $76.50 ticket. That effectively doubled the cost of the project I was engaged in at the time, which was going to my stepson’s house to put together a raised-bed vegetable garden.
All kidding aside, I do think that section of Main Street, heading out of town toward the Flea Market, ought to be a 35 mph zone. I have learned my lesson and will be more careful in the future — but I think this being my first offense, a warning would have done the job just as well.
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