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Weekly published newspaper covering Easley and Pickens County. A brief history ...

The Pickens Sentinel was first published July 23, 1871.

The Easley Progress was first published July 23, 1902. Both papers have been serving their respective communities ever since. On Dec. 7, 2016, the papers merged to become The Sentinel-Progress which is proud to continue serving the Upstate as Pickens County's oldest continuously operated business.

01/09/2024

It’s always a good time to try some local pizza if you are home from school today or off work … Amici’s in Easley and several other restaurants in town are still open today.

01/09/2024

Whose the best pet groomer in Easley?🐶

Vote for them in our Best of the Best contest:
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01/08/2024

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 will be an eLearning Day for the School District of Pickens County due to concerns with hazardous conditions caused by heavy rainfall and high wind gusts. Students will not attend school in-person.

01/06/2024

Video: RJ Davis gives an old-school approach about North Carolina’s 11-3 record overall and win over Clemson.

01/06/2024

Postgame notes … RJ Davis did not force things and finished with 14 points for the Tar Heels with 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Hunter led Clemson with 17 points.

01/06/2024

Final score: UNC defeats Clemson 65-55.

01/06/2024

62-55 UNC leads Clemson with 1:52 left in game.

01/06/2024

UNC leads 60-55 over Clemson with 3:52 left in game. Hall bounced back with a couple jump hooks.

01/06/2024

RJ Davis hits a huge 3 for a 39-36 Tar Heels lead with 15:30 left in game.

01/06/2024

38-34 Clemson lead. Ian is player of the game so far!

01/06/2024

Halftime notes: RJ Davis has only 4 points for the Tar Heels. A great ballgame!!!

01/06/2024

34 all at halftime. Hall has 6 points for Clemson at intermission.

01/06/2024

UNC leads Clemson 33-30 with 2:12 left in first half.

01/06/2024

Clemson takes a 16-15 lead.

01/06/2024

UNC leads Clemson 11-6 in the early going.

01/06/2024

Pregame notes: Just heard an update that Clemson is a 3 1/2 point favorite on ESPN over the North Carolina Tar Heels. It should be a great ballgame!

01/06/2024

Game Day Notes: The University of North Carolina is ranked No. 8 and brings a 10-3 record into Littlejohn Coliseum today. Clemson is currently 11-2 and ranked No. 16.
Last year, the Tar Heels defeated Clemson 91-71 at the Dean Smith Center. PJ Hall had 18 points in the loss.
Clemson is coming off of a 95-82 loss to Miami on Wednesday.
Be sure to see updates on this big game and additional coverage in Wednesday’s edition of The Easley Progress newspaper.

01/06/2024

North Carolina out-rebounded Pittsburgh 51-41 on Tuesday.

01/06/2024

Remembering Pistol Pete Maravich... 🏀🙌🏻

He passed away 36 years ago today. Arguably the greatest college player ever and an innovator that was WAY ahead of his time. He was only 40 years old.

June 22 1947-January 5 1988

01/05/2024

We’d like to say an extra “thanks” to the art department at Easley High School. They are putting an artistic touch to our newspaper racks and they are going to look awesome!

01/05/2024

Who has the best pizza🍕in Easley?

Vote here: www.theeasleyprogress.com/readers-choice

01/04/2024

Just dropped off some free copies to The Huddle. Plenty of sports, too.

01/04/2024

Vote for the best photographer📷 in Easley at
www.theeasleyprogress.com/readers-choice

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201 W. Main Street
Easley, SC
29640

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm

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(864) 855-0355

Website

http://theeasleyprogress.com/

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Video: Pregame from Littlejohn Coliseum … the Clemson University men’s basketball team will travel to play Virginia Tech on Jan. 10 and then return home on Jan. 13 to play Boston College.

Video: Clemson coach Brad Brownell talks about his schedule this season after a tough loss to North Carolina.

Postgame Video: Clemson coach Brad Brownell, a class act today after a tough loss to North Carolina, talks about the schedule of the Tigers basketball team.

Video: RJ Davis gives an old-school approach about North Carolina’s 11-3 record overall and win over Clemson.

Video: Bill Robson has several 300 games and recently bowled an 800 series. However, he’s even supportive of other bowlers and helps them out with their game. His wife is right there, too, after he bowls those strikes. Be sure to see Robson featured in this week’s edition of The Easley Progress newspaper.

Video: Easley High School grad Adrain Blake (‘94), the co-owner of the Walk A Mike/Kulture Walks Store, is one of the biggest fans in the area of Michael Jordan and the UNC tmTar Heels.

Video: Some extra copies of this week’s edition of The Easley Progress - featuring the 5 Point Church in Easley - were dropped off late last night at The Huddle. There should be some free copies left this morning.

Video: Easley doesn’t give up in OT … Jackson hits a big 3. Green Wave trail by 4.

Video: Going to overtime. A barnburner!!

Video: Wandra Wright - from the Anderson area - “brought it” tonight with her first Christmas song at Amici’s. A good crowd in attendance.

Video: Jamie Wright and Wanda Johnson have some local ties to the area and they will be performing tonight at Amici’s. They’ll be bringing in the holiday season with some good music.

Video … gotta include one more. It’s the end of the third quarter and a Wisconsin tradition. Go Pack Go!

Video: The Greenville Packer Backer Fan Club is in full force for today’s game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Spare Time on Congaree Road. Go Pack Go!!!

Wreaths Across America is ready to roll this morning in Easley ….will be starting soon. Don Thurlow, the District Deputy of the knights of Columbus, yells about the tradition of it all.

Video: Be sure to see some junior high basketball coverage this week in The Easley Progress newspaper. Also, the tough schedule of the Derrell Jackson-program is starting to pay off.

Video: A new restaurant/coffee shop for local residents who like to go hiking … at top of Caesars Head near the Foothills Trail.

Video: Daniel High School senior Sean Bolger played through an injury on Saturday night and helped the lions football defeat Camden 49-38 in overtime and win a state championship.

Video: Daniel High School senior Sean Bolger played through an injury on Saturday night to help the Lions bring home a state championship and a thrilling 49-48 win over Camden in overtime. Bolger is a senior and played on the O Line. Be sure to see The Easley Progress newspaper on Wednesday.

Video: Don’t forget to grab a copy of The Easley Progress newspaper this week and read the article about Luke Deuce. His upcoming schedule is on his website at: [email protected] lukedeucemusic

Game-Day Video: Another ROTC student at Clemson who reflects back on his time of growing up in the local area. Go Tigers … hosting North Carolina today in their final home game of the season.

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Our Story

The Sentinel-Progress has been Pickens County’s source for news since 1871. Published every Wednesday & Saturday, we bring our readers the best local news, sports and entertainment around.

A Historical Perspective

The Pickens Sentinel was founded in July 1871 by D. F. Bradley and J. R. Holcombe as “a newspaper with a conscience.” It is the oldest continuous business in Pickens County.

“Once, when the newsprint did not arrive by train for the March 6, 1873 issue, due to heavy shipments of fertilizer,” former owner Jerry Alexander said, “The newspaper was condensed and printed on old timey Blue Horse notebook paper. This issue is unique in the annals of South Carolina Journalism.”

By 1873, Bradley was editor and proprietor, and by 1875, J. H. Carlisle was in charge of the editorial department. J. C. Thompson was printer. The newspaper was sold August 26, 1886, to J. E. Boggs, who told subscribers that “a sheep is just as current at this office to pay subscriptions as greenbacks.” Boggs sold the newspaper to J. L. O. Thompson, a newspaperman from Oconee County, and H. A. Richey, Thompson’s father-in-law.

A new newspaper, People’s Journal, was founded in 1903 by T. C. Robinson, and in 1903, the two newspapers merged to form the Sentinel-Journal.

“During this time, the newspaper was printed on a press turned by hand,” Alexander said. “A strong man named Bill Brown and his son, Hovey, turned the flywheel on the old-timey press. The first automatic typesetting machines were installed by Mr. Thompson, and the work was speeded up considerably by the Simplex, a forerunner to the modern day Linotype.”

The Sentinel-Journal suffered a severe setback after the turn of the century, and the owner was forced to sell the paper in 1912. The Editor severely blasted a school teacher for a whipping given a lad which the Editor felt was too severe and for expelling the Editor’s son from school. The quarrel developed into such proportions a boycott by local merchants was called, forcing the Editor to get advertising from Greenville and other area towns. Advertising dwindled, and the paper was sold to a stock company headed by J. McD. Bruce. The newspaper resumed its original name, The Pickens Sentinel.

The Rev. D. W. Hiott and his two sons, Gary and Whitsitt, who had learned the printing trade in Greenville and Athens, operated the paper for several years before Gary Hiott went to The Greenville News, and Whitsitt began his own print shop in West Greenville, Hiott Printing Co.

W. Lesley Mattheney operated The Sentinel for a while. Gary Hiott went back to the newspaper, and he sold The Sentinel to F. V. Clayton and continued writing for The Greenville News and the Abbeville Medium. In 1927, Gary Hiott came home again and bought the newspaper from Clayton.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Gary Hiott’s quips and paragraphs were published in a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Literary Digest. After Gary Hiott died in 1950, The Sentinel was published by his wife and sons, Gary Jr. and David.

During the Depression, Mrs. Gary Hiott almost lost the newspaper, but after she became Pickens postmaster, she used her income to finance the newspaper operations. She accepted eggs or firewood for a year’s worth of the four-page newspaper with a payroll of $27 a week: $25 a week to the Linotype operator and $2 for the printer. During the 1940s, Robert Hiott worked on the paper at night.

The newspaper was sold in 1978 to Ben Bagwell who had been an Editor of the Sentinel and had worked for other newspapers including The Greenville News for six years, and Jerry Alexander, a veteran newspaperman with the Anderson Independent, as advertising manager. The Hiott family, which had operated The Sentinel for over 50 years, continued to operate Hiott Printing Company on Johnson Street in Pickens.

After a few years, Bagwell sold his interest to Alexander. Michael Schuver became General Manager in 1987, and Don Hunt served as General Manager from September 1988 to May 2002. In January 2002, Alexander sold The Sentinel to Andrew Babb, owner of Crescent Media Group of Spartanburg, and a third-generation newspaper publisher. Rocky Nimmons became General Manager in June 2002. He was later named the publisher of The Sentinel, and the Easley Progress and the Powdersville Post, which Babb bought a short-time later.

In June 2007, Heartland Publications bought The Pickens Sentinel. Sandy Foster was named general manager in July 2008. Lonnie Adamson was named general manager of The Sentinel, Progress and Post in March 2011. In late 2012, Versa Capital Management LLC, a private equity investment firm, announced the creation of Civitas Media LLC, a new community news media company that combined four media entities owned by Versa: Freedom Central, Heartland Publications, Impressions Media and Ohio Community Media. Christine Wyatt was named general manager of the three publications in 2013.

In late 2016, The Easley Progress and The Pickens Sentinel were merged into one publication — The Sentinel-Progress — and the publication days changed from Wednesday and Friday to Wednesday and Saturday. In June 2017, Champion Media LLC purchased The Sentinel-Progress along with The Newberry Observer and The Union Times.

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