Aiken carnival opens with cook-off and rides amid BBQ event
Final preparations complete as the spring fair kicks off at the Aiken Jaycees Fairgrounds on Highway 1. Gates open 5 p.m. with all you can ride passes for 12 dollars and a Memphis Barbecue Network show. The four day event features 17 rides, a Brew and Stew cook-off starting Friday, a People's Choice award, and performances by SoCo and Justin Tyme with free admission and parking.
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Aiken Jaycees Fairgrounds
Memphis
Fairgrounds
Alan Gregory
Memphis Barbecue Network
SoCo
Southeast
Gregory
Justin Tyme
Robbery spree suspect sought after three North Augusta holdups
Police search for a lone gunman described as a black male in his 20s about 5 10 to 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. Within a half hour Monday evening he robbed Circle K Kangaroo Express and Four Seasons Gas, taking cash and fleeing into nearby woods. No injuries reported. Investigators urge tips to North Augusta Public Safety or Aiken County Sheriff's Office.
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North Augusta
Circle K
Atomic Road
Kangaroo Express
Edgefield Road
Four Seasons
Aiken Bloodhound
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
North Augusta Public Safety
Phillip Turner
North Augusta Department of Public Safety
Aiken County
Coal smolder at SCE&G Beech Island plant finally extinguished
A coal bunker smolder at the Urquhart Drive Beech Island SCE&G plant was extinguished Tuesday afternoon after several days of monitoring. Firefighters and aid agencies coordinated shifts with help from Aiken County Emergency Management and the Red Cross.
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Sce&g
Beech Island
Urquhart Drive
Sand Bar Ferry Road
Urquhart
Aiken County Emergency Management
Beech Island Fire Department
David Ruth
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Columbia
Aiken County
Bill Bengtson
Online calendar connects horse community in Aiken
The Equestrian Calendar of Aiken e calendar aims to centralize upcoming horse events for riders and organizers in Aiken. Nancy Bruen Smith and Ann Kinney created the site to offer real time updates, discipline based listings, free entries, and broader outreach for clinics shows and gatherings in the local equestrian world.
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Aiken
Nancy Bruen Smith
Ann Kinney
Smith
Kinney
Smith and Kinney
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