Portraits from the Past fans praise local Heritage feature
Readers react to Portraits from the Past in the Aiken Standard praising its role in highlighting the town history. They urge continuation, share personal memories, and note the column helps connect newcomers and locals with southern heritage while acknowledging differing opinions.
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Aiken
Wesestyler
SRS retirees to get COLA boost in September payment
Rep. Lindsey Graham endorsed a COLA for Savannah River Site retirees, effective Sept 1, benefiting those retired by May 1999 and earlier, including survivors. The plan, tied to CPI increases, pays 3.4 percent plus monthly adjustments, with input from Westinghouse, DOE, WSRC president, and local retirees.
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Savannah River
Lindsey Graham
Graham
SRS Management
Department of Energy
SKS
Pension Adjustment Committee
Westinghouse
DOE
Greene
WSRC
Bob Pedde
Pedde
Secretary of Energy
Spencer Abraham
Cable barriers installed on I-20 median in Aiken County
SCDOT workers finished adding cable barriers along portions of the median on Interstate 20 in Aiken County. The second phase aims to reduce crashes from vehicles crossing the median, with work starting January 2001 and expected to continue about seven to twelve months.
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Aiken County
South Carolina Department of Transportation
Dick Jenkins
SCDOT
Andystems
Jenkins
South Carolina
Beech Island Man Arrested After Neighbor Assault
Beech Island resident Ronnie W. McCombs aged 20 was arrested by Aiken County deputies after an attack on a neighbor at Oakridge Furnished Apartments. He faces charges of assault and battery with intent to kill pointing and presenting a firearm possession of a firearm during a violent crime and unlawful firearm possession. Deputies caught him at a relative’s Old Camp Long Road home after responding to a reported shooting that proved to be blunt trauma on the victim Clayton Bradfield at the Medical College of Georgia.
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Beech Island
Ronnie W. McCombs
Aiken County
McCombs
Oakridge
Howard Sellers
Old Camp Long Road
Michael Frank
Medical College of Georgia
Clayton Bradfield
Multiple sex offender sentenced to 10 years in prison
Travis Smith, 17, was sentenced by Circuit Judge William Keesley to 10 years in state prison for criminal sexual conduct in the second degree. The state alleged pregnancy from the offense and noted Smith had prior juvenile confinement. He faces additional confinement under the state sexually violent predator act after completing the 10 years.
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Travis Smith
William Keesley
Brenda Brisbin
Smith
Department of Juvenile Justice
Brisbin
Local man jailed after appearance at Judicial Center
Joan Chip Livingston, common law husband of Marie Katherine Humes, was jailed after arriving for a bond reduction hearing at the Aiken County Judicial Center. Humes faces 100000 bond on charges from a March 7 raid that left more than 175 dogs seized and at risk. a consent order allowed adoption and euthanasia decisions for unadoptable animals.
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Joan
Chip) Livingston
Livingston
Aiken County Judicial Center
Marie Katherine Humes
Humes
Wuple
Salley
1Sen Moore
Moore
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