Teachers praised as front line of history in national honor event
U S Education Secretary Rod Paige lauded teachers at a banquet honoring National Teacher of the Year Kathy Mellor of Rhode Island and finalists including Jason Fulmer of Aiken County. He highlighted Charles Hampton Houston as a mentor to Thurgood Marshall and stressed teachers shape democracy.
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Rob Novit
South Carolina
Center
Nebraska
Diane Woodford
Dan Woodford
Kathy Mellor
Washington
U.S
Rod Paige
Paige
Rhode Island
Jason Fulmer
Aiken County
Charles Hampton Houston
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall
Brown
The
Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court
Omar Bradley
Democra
Texas
Mellor
Fulmer
Gino Marchetti
Arts center unveils 1.5 million capital campaign
The Aiken Center for the Arts announces the Painting the Future capital drive to raise 1.5 million for Laurens Street improvements. About 912,000 has been raised since 2001 for gallery, offices and phase two work. The goal is 600,000 more to finish upstairs studios for music ceramics and photography. Reverend Baden H. Brown is noted among figures at the event.
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Aiken Center For the Arts
Arts Center
Laurens Street
City of
Aiken
Center
Gerry Owen
BellSouth settlement promises customer bill credits and rate freeze
BellSouth will credit 35 to 40 dollars on bills for customers from 1996 to 1998 this summer after settling a suit with the state. The agreement also keeps residential and business rates frozen until January 2007, ending a decade-long dispute with the state Consumer Affairs Department and the consumer advocate.
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Columbia
BellSouth
Consumer Advocate
State Consumer Affairs Department
Marcia Purday
Bell
Elliott Elam
Elam
Public Service Commission
State gas revenues rise despite higher prices
In South Carolina, gasoline tax revenues last month rose about 25 percent from March a year earlier despite record high prices. Officials attribute the increase to a stronger economy and more drivers vacationing locally, with motorists choosing destinations like Myrtle Beach and Charleston over long cross country trips.
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Charleston
South Carolina
Michael Covington
State Department of Transportation
Myrtle Beach
Grand Canyon
Warrenville Elementary Kids Celebrate Earth Day Projects
First graders like Zachary Johnson worked outside to weed a future garden while peers planted trees built bird houses and made pine cone bird feeders. The event funded by a Public Education Partners grant totaled 25 000 across eight grants.
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Warrenville
Zachary Johnson
Dana Head
Public Education Partners
Bonnie Ryan
Abigail Howell
Kelly Eisenman
Abigail
Diane Mangiante
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Kaye
Scott Smith
Raymond S. Dunn
Christopher C. King
Bath
Jermaine L. Guyton
Monetta
Wyman O. Yonn
Bishopville
Aikenstandard.com
Abbyah
Phillip Grayson
Margy Beckmeyer
Exxon
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