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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1983
Page
1
The article reports that the year's top picture will be announced at tonight's Academy Awards selections. The ceremony will be telecast on ABC starting at 9 p.m. Viewers are directed to Page 2A for more information.
The Aiken County Board of Education will meet at 7 30 p m at the Educational Center to discuss a preliminary budget for 1983 84 with projected revenues of 37 259 298 and planned cuts in contracted services utilities and supplies, plus a 6 2 percent pay raise for staff. The agenda also covers policy revisions, calendar changes, and other budget related items.
The Aiken City Council plans a 7:30 p.m. meeting to consider leasing Rye Patch stables as a public facility and to second-read an ordinance banning flashing signs. A petition for leasing the stables will be heard, amid protests by Belvedere sign firm leaders. Also on second reading is a subdivision curb and gutter cost amendment changing city payment from $4 to $8 per front foot, up to $800 per lot.
General Sessions Court convened this week at the Aiken County Court House with Second Circuit Judge Rodney A Peeples presiding. Court was scheduled to meet at 10 a m this morning for session.
Jan Boylston has been named features editor of the Aiken Standard. A native of Aiken, she previously worked as a staff reporter, studied at the University of Texas for a journalism masters, and is a graduate of Aiken High School.
Belvedere residents go to the polls to decide whether to abolish the water and sewer district and to elect a new fire commissioner. The race features Frank Sitar and Larry Byrd vying to fill the term left by Joe Pack, with issues including district funding and public accountability.
Dr. Joseph D. Spencer says trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene leaked from an earthen basin at M Area between 1958 and 1979. Drinking wells on site show trace levels up to 26.5 ppb, while outside samples are clean. air stripping will accelerate remediation.
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