School Board To Hear Vocational Education Progress Report
The Aiken County Board of Education will receive the annual Vocational Education Progress Report at 7 tonight at the Educational Center located at 043 Edgefield Ave. The meeting will cover achievements from the previous school year and include items on personnel appointments, budget adjustments, and extending terms for certain assistant principals. It also notes a proposal for a sick leave bank for catastrophic illnesses or accidents and discusses BBBE war deals with area advisory councils and a policy change on bus conduct.
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Aiken County
Gone with the Wind Memorabilia at USC Aiken
Tamara L. Matlock of the Etherredge Center at USC Aiken has spent about five years collecting Gone with the Wind treasures. Her favorites include plates books posters postcards stamps and a key chain.
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Tamara L. Matlock
Etherredge Center
USC Aiken
Aiken Mayor H Windham reports city recycling strides
City officials announced four years of effort with one million four pounds recycled and a 35 percent drop in waste to the Aiken County landfill. Rotary President Alan George praised local achievements and congratulated Dr. Henry Chou on his promotion.
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Aiken
Roland H. Windham
Aiken County
Birthdays for Lashani Issac Clint Shultz and Others
A list of birthdays includes Lashani Issac Clint Shultz Ronnie Mellvoy Kathi Boren Ricky Sanders Mark Sanders Georgane Coker Alice Rodgers Blandon Shealy Edwin DuBose Janette Storey Mary E Livingston Rosa White Jeremy Randall Sherry Bentley. No ages or dates provided.
City Council Denies Arcade Zoning Request in May Vote
Aiken City Council rejected Ronnie Petersons bid to rezone a .30 acre Camel la Street Bunch Terrace property to open a children arcade. The May 14 vote upheld the denial. The meeting also approved first readings to annex and zone 1.49 acres for SC Electric and Gas east Pine Log Road, amended bed and breakfast inn zoning, and faster notice for conditional use changes. The panel approved a counter offer to sell 14 acres near Edgfield and Morgan Streets to the Coalition to Assist Abused Persons, setting 20 000 value with 15 000 at closing and 5 000 over 10 years. Other actions included approving Woodside Plantation Phase II master plan, extending water service to Creekside Section 2, and designating Shrine firm from Greene as consultant for Gisinage work. Mayor Weeks abstained on the water sewer extension with Willow Foods Farms for a subdivision.
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Aiken
Ronnie Peterson
Camellia Street
Bunch Terrace
Peterson
South Carolina Electric and Gas Co
East Pine Log Road
Edgefield and
Morgan Streets
Coalition
Woodside Plantation
City Water Service
Creekside
First Grade Joy as Katherine Embraces School
Katherine Shirley six-year-old daughter of Sharon and Richard Shirley prepares for first grade at South Aiken Baptist Christian School. She eagerly anticipates homework, math and reading, and enjoys tutoring from her parents while her brother Eric, a fourth grader, joins familiar classmates. Her parents note her readiness and supportive family environment helps ease the typical first day jitters witnessed by other children.
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Katherine Shirley
Aiken County
Katherine
Sharon
Richard Shirley
Kindergarden
South Aikien Baptist Christian School
Eric
Shirley
Planning Commission Set To Review Woodside Developments
The Aiken Planning Commission meets at 3 p.m. in the municipal complex on Park Avenue to review Woodside Development Company requests. It will consider preliminary plat approvals for Sections 11 and 12 of Phase II, creating 21 and 13 single family lots on 11.93 and 6.64 acres, plus a variance to exceed the 10 percent slope on Woodside Plantation Drive. Also on the agenda are a 2.41 acre annexation near Warden Drive by SCE&G for R-1 residential zoning, a water service request for Water's Edge on Richardson's Lake Road with 24 lots on 15.10 acres, and a preliminary plat for 21 lots on 6.9 acres at Chesterfield Street.
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Aiken Planning Commission
Woodside Development Company
Park Avenue
Woodside
Woodside Plantation Drive
South Carolina Electric and Gas Co
Warden Drive
Woodbine Road
Riverbluff Realty
City Water Service
Water
VOICE Seeks Aid After Textile Plant Closure Hurts Families
Geneva Greene of Valley Outreach Interfaith Center says VOICE still seeks funds to cover utility bills and rent for families affected by the Clear Water Finishing Plant closing. Aiken County United Way allocated 3000 dollars, now spent, with churches’ offerings not yet received. Greene says she is broke again and awaiting more support.
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Clearwater
Geneva Greene
Valley Outreach Interfaith Center
United Way of
Aiken County
VOICE
Filies
VOICE Urges Donations To Aid Plant Closure Families
Jeff Spears of United Way says the executive committee unanimously designated funds to assist 350 families facing utility bills food and medicines after a plant shutdown. Donations to VOICE support a special emergency fund with rapid response needs.
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Jeff Spears
The
United Way
Trial For SLED Agent Starts In Aiken County Court
SLED agent James Allen Collins 46 of North Augusta faces trial in Aiken County General Sessions Court for the Feb 20 shooting death of Tony Bonnette 27 of Orangeburg at the Rainbow Terrace Motel in Clearwater. Bonnette died after being shot in the upper chest around 11:30 p.m. Collins reportedly visited the motel with his wife in his vehicle before the shooting. no weapon was found. Judge Hubert Long presides. case expected to last at least two days.
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South Carolina
Aiken County
Second Circuit
Barbara R. Morgan
James Allen Collins
North Augusta
Tony L. Bonnette
Orangeburg
Collins
Bonnette
Rainbow Terrace
Clearwater
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta
Hubert Long
Strokers
SLED
Hugh Munn
Jmmy
Priester
Cone
Reproduction Of Mural On Exhibit In Columbia Exhibit
An early lifesize reproduction of Stefan Hirsch's Justice as Protector and Avenger hangs in the Charles E. Simons U S Federal Courthouse courtroom in Aiken and is part of the South Carolina State Museum show New Deal Art in South Carolina Government supported Images from the Great Depression opening through Oct 14. The original 1938 mural sparked controversy over tax cost and racial depiction, and the curtain now lifts when the court is not in session for viewers.
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Stefan Hirsch
Charles E. Simons
U.S
Aiken
South Carolina State Museum
Columbia
South Carolina
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Tamara Matlock
Greene
Long River
Hitchcock Woods
Kalmia Basin
Dibble Road
Cedar Lane
H. Odell Weeks
Willowfoods Farms
Nina J. Nndiffer
Planning Commission
Y Philip Lord
P.O
Langley
D.C
Pease
Dean Thomas Abbet
Provaton
Pue
Ad Hose Aes and
Inns
Danny Jay Sheppard
Tomas
Public Defender
Cryse ‘Chard Gwen
Wietm
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