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Blue Ridge Fest. raises 235K

PICKENS — Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative is pleased to announce that the 22nd annual Blue Ridge Fest, held on May 3, 2019, raised a record-breaking amount of $235,000 to benefit local non-profit organizations in Greenville, [...]
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School bus shot with BB gun

SIX MILE — Two juvenile suspects have been arrested after allegedly shooting at the windows of a passing school bus with an air rifle or BB gun, causing the glass to break. On Thursday, detectives [...]
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Changes afoot for Liberty elem. schools

LIBERTY — The School District of Pickens County is asking for community input concerning an upcoming vote to restructure two elementary schools in Liberty. Under the proposed changes, Chastain Road Elementary and Liberty Elementary schools [...]
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Patient arrested after flooding E.R.

EASLEY — The emergency room of Baptist Easley Hospital was evacuated on Sunday after a patient damaged the overhead sprinkler system and flooded the E.R. According to hospital officials, around 6 p.m. a patient who [...]
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Plant closure will eliminate 250 jobs

CENTRAL — Two hundred and fifty jobs are being eliminated from Pickens County after it was announced Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is “shifting production” from their manufacturing plant in Central to other Shaw facilities throughout [...]

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