Callers discuss community issues and school funding concerns
Letters express frustration with noisy neighborhoods and unsafe driving near Northside and Pipeline Road. Others defend Girl Scout troops, urge education funding, critique local politics, applaud Ellenton police against drugs, and defend free speech amid wartime debate.
Australians visit Aiken for Rotary Group Study Exchange
An Australian group of five travels 13 000 miles to spend five weeks in South Carolina. Led by Ric Wilson, the team learns about local life through host sites in Aiken Greenwood Laurens and Greenville while visiting Aiken Standard Kennedy Middle School and Hitchcock Woods.
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Aiken
Greenville
Australia
United States
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Rotary International
Ric Wilson
Mitsubishi
Caroline Paterson
Deep Creek Conservation Park
Jodie Sloan
Sis
Cathy Venning
Victor Harbor
Greenwood
McCormick
Laurens
John Walker
Rotary
Standard
Venning
Kennedy Middle School
Sloan
Paterson
Hitchcock Woods
Wilson
Richard Pearce
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Rotary District
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Tamara Stevenson
Man appeals death sentence claiming ineffectual counsel
Morris Roy Clark, 27, of Aiken County, pleaded guilty to homicide by child abuse in the beating death of Brittany Weeks, 15 months. Circuit Judge William Keesley sentenced him to 32 years. Clark filed a March 5 postconviction relief appeal alleging lack of a preliminary hearing and ineffective counsel.
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Aiken County
Roy Clark
Morris Jr
Brittany Weeks
Circuit Court
William Keesley
Lieber Correctional Institute
Morris
Michael Chesser
Chesser
Shannon Weeks
Chamber’s Man of Year Tim Dangerfield Known for Public Service
Tim Dangerfield, 2003 Aiken Chamber Man of the Year, is a long time public servant rooted in family service to the South Carolina House. He chairs the Aiken Planning Commission and the Economic Development Partnership for Aiken and Edgefield counties, recruits industry with EDP director Fred Humes, and also lobbies for Nelson Mullins in sessions. Dangerfield, Isle of Palms native, started in public life at 19 on the Isle of Palms Town Council, later leading planning efforts, selling R&H Maxxon to The Pantry in 1999, and chairing the Southeastern United States Japan Association, with future cochair duties in Japan.
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S. House of Representatives
Clyde Dangerfield
Tim Dangerfield
Dangerfield
Aiken
Edgefield
Fred
Columbia Law Firm
Nelson Mullins
Riley & Scarborough
General Assembly
Isle of Palms
Charleston
Palmetto
Fritz Hollings
EDP
Aiken Planning Commission
Greg Ryberg
R&h Maxxon
the Pantry
Southeastern United States Japan Association
United States
Japan
Man snatches cash at El Rio Mexican Restaurant in Aiken
Police search for a white male 20 to 30, 6 ft 2 in, 240 lb, wearing a gray shirt and driving a damaged red Pontiac Grand Am after he grabbed money from a register and dropped it while fleeing 417 Silver Bluff Road. Witness partial tag S C 165. Call (803) 642-7620 with tips.
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el Rio
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