Community events and schedule highlights in Aiken area
Friday listings include New Ellenton 50th birthday at 6:30 pm and Midland Valley Chamber banquet at 7 pm with venues in New Ellenton and MVHS. Play Daddy's Dyin' at Aiken Community Playhouse at 8 pm. Saturdays offer children's festival, free car seat checks, veterans health fair, Beech Island Heritage Day, and a Trash and Treasures sale near Goo will Emporium. Sunday features a Silver Bluff Fire Department yard sale.
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New Ellenton
New Elleniton
Midland Valley Chamber of Commerce
Midland Valley High School
Aiken County jail hosts Cuff Stuff and Slumber night
Aiken County plans a 24 hour mock confinement event at the new Doris C Gravat Detention Center. One male and one female pod will hold 100 citizens chosen from non incarcerated residents for a trial run to test operations. Tickets cost 5 dollars with proceeds funding T shirts for participants after release. Dinner and uniforms provided. Winners must attend May 5 at 7 pm.
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Aiken County
HBO
Doris C. Gravat
Banker Charles Harmon to lead Lexington loan office
Charles Harmon, a South Carolina banker, has been hired by People's Community Capital Corp to head a loan production office in Lexington. The firm, established in 1997, may open a full-service bank branch in Lexington at a future date.
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Charles Harmon
South Carolina
People’s Community Capital Corp
Lexington
People’s Community
Thursday Georgia Lottery Results Show Winning Numbers
Thursday's draws list Pick 3 numbers 0 5 6 and Cash 3 Midday 76 8 Cash 3 Evening 2 6 8 Cash 4 Midday 6 4 5 8 Cash 4 Evening 6 0 8 Fantasy 5 numbers 12 21 22 28 33.
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Cash
Fantasy
Track meet offers young athletes unique opportunity
The Her shey's Track Meet in Aiken gives youths ages 9 to 14 a chance to compete on a real track and qualify for a district meet at Lower Richland High in Columbia. Oakwood-Windsor P E teacher Wendy Scolomiero notes many participants lack local recreation leagues and that the event helps siblings join the sport.
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Lower Richland High
Columbia
Aiken
Aiken High
Oakwood-Windsor
Wendy Scolomiero
Rob Novi
Brandon Jones
Freddie Glover
Hershey
Aiken High School
CSRA Robot Warriors eye crunch time in BattleBots debut
CSRA Robot Warriors prepare for a busy period led by Jabberwock. The team unveils improvements including titanium skin and speed boosts ahead of a May 2027 BattleBots appearance in San Francisco. The crew, led by sponsors and volunteers, showcased a 16th place finish on national TV from the Aiken Brewing Company event.
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CSRA
San Francisco
Comedy Central
Ing Company
Don Green
Clyde Ward
Bill Wabbersen
Steve Tibrea
Steve Carden
Savannah River Site
Portraits of the Past: Janie String Held
The notice reports that Janie String holds a portrait titled Portraits of the Past, with details limited by the readable OCR fragment.
Portraits of the Past Photo Request From Aiken County
Aiken County residents are urged to share old photos to help document local faces and places. Contact Lamy Ferguson at 648 2311 ext 219 to submit images or provide context for a Bath church scene featuring Mark Bart, 87, with his ancestors WP and Laura String.
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Aiken County
Nem
Cone
Lamy Ferguson
Mark Bartold
Aiken County School Menu Week April 29 to May 2
The weekly breakfast and lunch menus show offerings across the district. Breakfast includes assorted juices with eggs and biscuits on several days, while lunches feature hamburger or dumplings on Monday, pizza or hoagie on Tuesday, and manager's choice on Wednesday. Midstate and high schools list daily biscuit options with meats.
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Aiken County
Manager's
Manager's Choice
Trevecca Nazarene elects junior class president
Jessica Hawkins of North Augusta was chosen as junior class president for the 2002 2008 school year at Trevecca Nazarene University. She is the daughter of Tommy and Sherrie Hawkins and a Midland Valley High School graduate. Hawkins, a sophomore communications major, serves in student government and the Public Relations Committee and traveled to Uganda with CAUSE last year.
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Edessica Havidees Nam
Trevecca Nazarene
Jessica Hawkins
North Augusta
Trevecca Nazarene Universit
Tommy
Sherrie Hawkins
Midland Valley High School
Awkins
Hawkins
Uganda
United States
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Midland Valley Chamber of Commercal
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Joe ‘Nya
Soundslake
Napa
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J.D. Lever
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Jonathan Blocker
Brandon Bryant
Matthew Jones
George Oakman
Thomas Fekete
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O'Hara Hennessey
Lauren Wheeler
Latesha Hawkins
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Michelle Jackson
Jeffrey Farrell
Corey Reed
Jeremy Forest
George Spain
Joey King
Marcus Harris
Jonathan Smally
Sameia Simmons
Quoneka Corely
Sharde Hawkins
McKinley Hennessey
Whitney Trowell
Jessica Ray
Alex Dause
Megan O'Brien
Quinton Corley
Christian John
Rudy Aldrete
Michael Feteke
James Cumbee
Sean Guin
Csra Robot Warriors
Bill Bet
Aiken Brew
Janie
Bath
Laura String
Hester Jones
Graniteville High School
Frank Glover
Libby Atteberry
Glennie Lybrand
Mary Strom
Kenneth Snelling
Lillie Mundy
Ursula Blackwell
Margaret Franklin
Maude White
Joe Timmerman
Nell Giles
Ezra Whitback
Dorothy Widener
Ethelyn Walton
Theda Addy
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Louise Johnson
Lewis Booth
James Lott
Edward Carpenter
Earnest Green
David Doscher
Billy Kenney
Hester Ledbetter
Lucile Craig
Alice McGee
Dorothy Smith
Frances Hancock
Nellie Burnette
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al Aiken
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