By Rocky Nimmons The official groundbreaking ceremony for St. Jude Medical’s 60,000 square foot hybrid facility and the official ribbon cutting of its new completed facility at the Pickens County Commerce Park was held on Wednesday, October 25. St. Jude representatives, along with state and local dignitaries and those respon¬sible for the site were on…
By Sandy Foster LIBERTY – St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced Tuesday that it will build another facility at the Pickens County Commerce Park. Hybrid microelectronic circuits for the company’s implantable pacemakers and defibrillator will be made at the new 60,000 square foot plant. St. Jude officials plan to hire about 300 employees to…
By Gerald Garrett LIBERTY — Pickens County officials have removed the shroud of mystery from the “John Project.” On Tuesday morning they revealed that St. Jude Medical Inc. is expanding its operations with a second facility at the Pickens County Commerce Park and will hire about 300 new employees over the next five years. At…
According to results released today by the South Carolina Department of Education, students in the School District of Pickens County improved their scores on 2004-2005 end-of-course algebra tests. The Algebra 1 mean scale score for the 1,224 Pickens County students tested improved from 82.5 to 83.9, equivalent to a grade of C on the state’s…