Fatcow Icon
News
‘Jesus_Christ_Superstar’0_1363896825.jpg
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
Mary Magdalene, played by Alyssa Conner, tries to get an exhausted Jesus, played by Josh Mahon, to rest in a scene from “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Southern Wesleyan University is presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway classic in several performances at Folger Fine Arts Auditorium on the university’s campus in Central. Scheduled performances are March 22, 7:30 p.m.; and March 23, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. For details, call (864) 644-5191. Ticket ...
full story
Learning to lead by giving
EASLEY — Seasoned chamber of commerce members expressed pleasant surprise Thursday when local high school student described how they had learned leadership through giving. “If this is an example, we are in pretty good shape with kids like this,” said Terry Garrison. He was describing one Easley High School and two Liberty high School 11th graders who are most of the way through the first Junior Leadership Pickens County program. Members of ...
full story
SWU Day of Service
CENTRAL — Southern Wesleyan University will send approximately 200 volunteers to a dozen sites March 19 providing assistance organizing food pantries, doing landscaping and trail work, and socializing with senior citizens. During this first annual Day of Service, students will discover ways that simple acts of service impact the surrounding community. Organized by Southern Wesleyan’s Student Life office, Day of Service will involve nearly 1...
full story
Congressman predicts Ryan budget passage
The clock keeps ticking on a U.S. Senate budget bill, one of the things, U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R) Laurens notes whenever he speaks in his 3rd Congressional District. He made clear in a series of news media calls last week that reporters in this area knew the calendar has ticked off 1420 days since the last federal budget was passed. “The House has passed one the last three times,” Duncan said in a phone interview Tuesday morning. He expe...
full story
A participant survey was conducted during a Town Hall Meeting held at the Powderville Branch Library on Thursday March 7.
Town Hall survey results reveal road maintenance concerns
POWDERSVILLE – Road repairs were highest on a list of priorities developed in a survey following last week’s Powdersville Town Hall meeting. Councilman Ken Waters handed out the survey with a list of Powdersville issues including EMS expansion, road maintenance, sewer/wastewater, hospitality tax, transit, capital equipment replacement, and the storm water program. Participants were asked to rank the categories from one to eight with one b...
full story
Internship offers practical business experience
POWDERSVILLE — The signs spring up all over our area about this time of year. They are a sign of the times, a marker of the season of house painting and the season for growing entrepreneurs. The roadside yard signs are a chief marketing tool for the organization Student Painters that swell its ranks around college campuses like Clemson University. Student managers create businesses for which they employ students to paint area homes. R...
full story
Tracy Barnes from Easley says, “I feel like we are a Christian nation and we should have the right to be able to pray. If people of another religion or no religion do not agree with us that is fine.”
Man on the Street
Joe Toppe Staff Writer
full story
Medical officials fear decline in service
PICKENS – South Carolina hospitals could see a decline in services and money for new technology if state officials opt out of the Medicaid Expansion. That message comes from people like Pickens’ Cannon Memorial Hospital CEO Norm Rentz. Rentz, a member of the SC Hospital Association Board of Trustees, has been meeting with business, political and healthcare officials, soliciting support for accepting the Medicaid Expansion opportunities and ...
full story
Highway Patrol annoucnes beefed up patrols
As motorists prepare to celebrate the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, the South Carolina Highway Patrol will join local law enforcement in 19 counties statewide for an enforcement push to prevent highway deaths due to drinking and driving. In the Upstate, Anderson, Greenville, Pickens and Spartanburg counties have been identified as areas where DUI is of special concern to law enforcement. The South Carolina Department of Public Safety, which ...
full story
School_district_not_anticipating_significant_sequester_impact0_1363294839.jpg
School district not anticipating significant sequester impact
PICKENS COUNTY—Schools in Pickens County likely will not be feeling much of an impact from the Sequester, which aims to cut $82 billion in federal spending. School District of Pickens County officials say some funding will likely be lost, but will only amount to less than one percent of the annual budget, which was nearly $99 million this year. “The SDPC may lose approximately 450,000 (5.9% of our federal funds),” Pew said. “The managers ...
full story
City_of_Liberty_gearing_up_for_Spring_Festival0_1363294707.jpg
City of Liberty gearing up for Spring Festival
LIBERTY—Spring is officially on its way and the City of Liberty is gearing up for a celebration. The City of Liberty and Liberty Festivals & Events recently announced preparations for the second annual Liberty Spring Festival and Cruz-In set for May 4. Liberty will be partnering with The Parenting Place’s “Ride for the Child” program, which will make its final stop at the festival for an awards ceremony. The festival will offer a wide v...
full story
Kidsfest_set_Saturday_at_Hagood_Mill0_1363115170.jpg
Kidsfest set Saturday at Hagood Mill
PICKENS — Come join the friends of the Pickens County Museum as “Music in the Mountains 2013” continues with the Hagood Mill’s Sixth Annual KidsFest, this year becoming a “SUPER KIDSFEST” concert and music competition, on Saturday, March 16. Starting at 11:00 and continuing until 6:00 on the outdoor stage, the event’s emcees and hosts, Gregg “Buffalo” Barfield and Steve McGaha - the “Wizards of Odd” - will present a great variety of performan...
full story
Speakers honor long-time Baptist Easly CEO
EASLEY — Quint Studer, founder of StuderGroup and nationally-known healthcare consultant, honored Roddey E. Gettys, III, at his retirement dinner Friday at the Madren Center in Clemson. Studer completed a line-up of personalities well-known to Gettys and in healthcare statewide. Studer reminisced about Gettys being inducted into the Healthcare Hall of Fame and the many awards Baptist Easley Hospital won under Gettys’ leadership, including...
full story
Auction to benefit hungry children
PICKENS — Pickens Rotarians are seeking community support to feed more than 400 hungry children throughout Pickens County. The Pickens Rotary Club’s Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Auction hopes to raise $12,500 to donate to the Feed A Hungry Child organization. The event is scheduled for March 23 at 6 p.m. at Pickens First Baptist Church. Items donated include A trip to Asheville and Biltmore House and a week’s stay at Pawley’s Island plus d...
full story
Spring sports underway at Easley High School
EASLEY – The spring season for Easley High School athletics has begun and includes boys’ tennis, boys and girls’ track and field, varsity and JV baseball, varsity and JV softball, boys and girls’ soccer, and boys’ varsity and JV golf. “So far, the spring sports season has been really difficult due to the bad weather and the large number of games that have been postponed and rescheduled,” said Athletic Director, Chris Carter. “We hope that a...
full story
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ opens Friday at SWU
This year’s student production, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” will feature a reverent staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical interpretation of the events of Holy Week. “It is my hope that this version of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ will allow people to experience Christ and his resurrection through a fresh, respectful staging of Lloyd Webber’s musical interpretation of the Passion, said Melanie Gibson Rowell, the show’s director. Show times ar...
full story
Reunion of Upcountry family history event set
The free event will include cemetery tours, workshops devoted to family history and a large display of photos and other items from local families of the Old Pendleton District, which became present-day Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties. The event kicks off April 25 at Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in Easley with a workshop on computer research. Also planned that day is an open house at Mary Oates Gregorie Genealogy Research ...
full story
Countryside Village & Park hosts blood drive
EASLEY — Countryside Village & Park is holding a blood drive on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help the Blood Connection replenish its supply for those in need. “We encourage members of our community to come and donate this valuable, life-saving resource. There are so many benefits to donating,” said Alicia Keely, community relations coordinator, Emeritus at Countryside Village & Park. “It feels great to donate,” she said. The locatio...
full story
McJunkin_passes_away_at_age_880_1363113684.jpg
McJunkin passes away at age 88
LIBERTY—City officials and residents are mourning the loss of Liberty City Councilman Walt McJunkin, who passed away on March 2 at his residence in Liberty. “He was a great servant to the City of Liberty,” Liberty Mayor Michael Sheriff said. “He served on council off and on since the 1950s. He was very active in the community and very well liked. His service to the city was exemplary.” Lavant Padgett, also a Liberty City Council Member, s...
full story
Weather
Sponsored By:

Lottery
Sponsored By:

Stocks
Sponsored By:

Gas Prices
Sponsored By:

Featured Businesses
Recipes
Sponsored By: