Aiken Council to debate upgrades to The Alley project
The Aiken City Council and staff plan two Thursday committee meetings to review upgrades to The Alley and adjacent City owned property at Newberry Street. Introduced by City Utilities and Engineering Director George Grinton, the plan envisions underground power lines, improved lighting, drainage reductions, landscaping, and stormwater funding totaling about 1.25 million dollars, with SCE&G funds and Capital Project Sales Tax Round Two support. The 4:30 p.m. meeting covers The Alley and the 5:30 p.m. session covers City property. both begin in room 204 of the Municipal Building at 214 Park Ave and are open to the public.
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Aiken City
City Utilities and Engineering
George Grinton
Hitchcock Woods
Sce&g
Newberry Street
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Park Ave
Aiken area dairy history shines at museum exhibit
Local resident Bill Baab reflects on Haskell's Dairy as a premier local dairy amid a 15-farm study in his new book The Retail Dairies of Aiken, Columbia and Richmond Counties. He donated 531 milk bottle collectibles to the Augusta Museum of History as part of the exhibit on dairies, bottles, and memories through September.
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Bill Baab
Haskell
Aiken
Baab
Aiken County
Richmond
Augusta Museum of History
Joe Odum
Bill
SRR intern challenges norms in engineering field
Christina Santos, a senior chemical engineering major from Wolcott Connecticut and internship with Savannah River Remediation at the Savannah River Site, leads in a predominantly male program. She works in Tank Farm Facility Engineering on sludge transfer between two liquid waste tanks to prepare for waste from the Defense Waste Processing Facility.
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Christina Santos
Savannah River Remediation
Savannah River
Santos
Wolcott
Connecticut
University of New Haven
Tank Farm
Defense
SRR
Tim Baughman
Southern Nights to headline Hopelands Summer Concert Series
Hopelands Summer Series presents Southern Nights at 7 p.m. on Monday on the Roland H Windham Performing Arts Stage at Hopelands Gardens. The 12 piece jazz band from Aiken performs 1930s to 1950s big band style. The free event, presented by the Academy for Lifelong Learning at USC Aiken, features songs like Jump Jive and Wail and All of Me.
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Southern Nights
Roland H. Windham
Hopelands Gardens
Academy For Lifelong Learning
Usc Aiken
Aiken
Bill Clark
Bill Foss
CSRA
Aiken County
Windham
Green Boundary Club
Whiskey Road
Dupree Place
H. Odell Weeks Activities Center
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