Pickens County News

The Pickens County School District has seen its general fund budget dip nearly $6 million since it was approved last June.

A 19-year-old Marietta man has been arrested and charged by the Pickens County Sheriffa s Office with assaulting a 19-year-old Pickens man with a knife near Fruit Mountain Road in Easley Friday night.

Jury selection and opening statements began Monday in the case of a man accused of killing a Pickens County pawn shop owner.

During the week of November 15-21, the School District of Pickens County will celebrate American Education Week, an annual observance honoring our public educators.

State health teams will administer H1N1 vaccinations in Pickens County elementary schools Nov.

A recycling center employee places cardboard in a bin. Clemson city officials are optimistic following two recent meetings with Pickens County Council members Jim London and Randy Crenshaw that penalties won't be imposed on municipalities if they fail to meet the county's recycling goal of 30 percent.

CLEMSON - A special election has been set for Feb. 9 to fill the unexpired term of Clemson City Councilwoman Elouise James, who resigned from the position she has held since 1997.

Six Mile voters will return to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in a two-way runoff between Brenda Rippy and V. Aaron Smith.

Jim Hill of Pickens County will serve as Chair for the 2010 March for Babies, the March of Dimes biggest fundraiser.

By the end of the month, public-school students in Pickens County could be getting a real shot in the arm from the district.

November 13, 2009 - 11:00 p.m. EST CLEMSON - Oconee County Sheriffa TMs Officers charged Timothy Joe Chastie on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, and now he will face additional charges out of Pickens County.

A forestry commission employee spotted a fire Friday afternoon, and within a short time, flames were burning close to a house and had destroyed an out-building. Images: Fire Burns Building, Brush Crews from the Holly Springs Fire Department and the South Carolina Forestry Commission were trying to extinguish the blaze just after 5 p.m. At about 6 ...

EASLEY - Efforts to create a fire department to serve the Crosswell area of Pickens County reached a milestone recently with construction of a fire station and the hiring of a skeleton staff.

After an unrelated traffic charge, an Easley woman was arrested last Monday in connection with the carjacking of a pickup truck 11 years ago.

A single-car crash Friday afternoon in Pickens has claimed the lives of two Greenville residents.

November 5, 2009 - 10:37 p.m. EST The Pickens County Election Commission Thursday certified provisional ballots from Tuesdaya TMs municipal elections, including the Central mayoral and council races.

Hundreds lined up for an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic in Pickens County on Saturday. The vaccines that many have been waiting for have arrived in.

Two people were killed late Friday when their car overturned several times along Tabor Woods Road in Pickens County, ejecting the passenger, according to the state Highway Patrol.

TABLE ROCK a ' Greenville police arrested a man and woman Sunday evening who may have been involved in a carjacking at Aunt Suea TMs Country Corner on Scenic Highway 11 in northern Pickens County.

Pickens police have arrested seven residents on drug charges, the result of an ongoing investigation that began nine months ago, according to Chief Tommy L. Ellenburg.