Grading Policy Changes Discussed at Midland Valley Forum
College counselors and parents joined school administrators in Midland Valley High School to review statewide grading policy changes. Dr. Frank Roberson spoke as Aiken County’s associate superintendent, noting that a student must be enrolled for five consecutive semesters to be eligible for valedictorian or salutatorian honors, with transfer students facing eligibility questions.
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Midland Valley High School
Frank Roberson
Aiken County
Aiken High
South Aiken High
ATC Leaders Respond to State College Ratings
ATC president Dr Susan Graham says ATC earned the achieves rating with solid recent progress and limited room for improvement. She notes most South Carolina colleges also posted achieves and no school failed to meet overall standards set by the State Commission on Higher Education.
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Aikens Technical College
State Commission On Higher Education
ATC
Susan Graham
USC
Clemson
The
Citadel
College of, Charleston
Trident Technical College
Florence-Darlington ‘Technical College
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Youths to remain in custody in school threat case
Two Midland Valley High School freshmen Jaris Simon and Robert Turner will stay in state detention after a brief hearing. Judge Larry Inabinet upheld Judge Peter Nuessie’s order, despite defense requests to place the youths with relatives or speed up trial. Prosecutor Frank Young said no bomb evidence existed, but the threat provoked school turmoil and fear, with a remark linking to Adolf Hitler’s birthday and the Columbine tragedy.
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Larry Snabinet
Peter Nuessie
Nuessie
Jaris Simon
Robert Turner
Midland Valley High School
Simon
Turner
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
Frank Young
Inabinet
David Mauldin
Paulette Jones
Young
Midland Valley
House seeks 52 by 52 flag size for Confederate emblem
In Columbia the House debates how large the Confederate flag atop the Statehouse should be. Senate language specifies 52 inches square including the white border, but House members warn the measure could mean napkin sized or 52 inches per side. Leaders insist the intent is a full four by four feet battle flag, while opponents call for clarity before any vote.
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Columbia
House
Senate
James Smith
Smith
Terry Haskins
Greenville
John Courson
Target store set to open October on Aiken southside
Target plans to open a 125000 square foot store on Whiskey Road and Brookhaven by October 8, creating about 200 jobs. The Aiken location will be Target’s first in the city, joining Hilton Head and contributing $300000 annually to local businesses and community programs.
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Aiken
Whiskey Road
Brookhaven
Gregg Steinhafel
Target Stores
Hilton Head
South Carolina
Deaths and Funerals Brightens Columbia Area Memorials
Josephine Rudolph Carthens of Willston Jenkins Memorial Snaper Joyce Rish Cromer listed by Caughman Harman Funeral Homes Columbia Elizabeth Burwell Hall of Aiken Rivers Funeral Home in notices detailing passing and arrangements.
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Josephine Rudolph Carthens
Willston
Jenkins Memorial
Snaper Joyce Rish Cromer
Columbia
Caughman-Harman
Elizabeth Burwell Hall
Aiken
Rivers Funeral Home
Bond denial tied to knifing suspect in fatal July incident
Gerald Smoak refused to lower a $200,000 bond for Chad L. Dorn 21 charged with murder in the July 1999 stabbing death of Robert Ryan Musgrove 25 outside an Aiken night spot. Dorn faces a later assault charge after the Higgenbotham case. The court rejected claims that the victim sought to drop the complaint.
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Higgenbotham
Aiken
Tom Woodruff
Smoak
Secners Ofice
Grant Gibbons
Gibbons
Dorn
Higgenbothamn
Musgrove
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