Dance students join Ice Bucket Challenge in Aiken
Carolina Dance Studio team members doused each other with ice as part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The national fundraiser has raised nearly 100 million dollars with participants posting videos online. ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative illness with no cure.
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Chemistry program earns American Chemical Society certification
USC Aiken senior chemistry major Summer Farmer works on a Raman spectroscopy project under Professor Monty Fetterolf as the chemistry program earns ACS certification. Department chair Dr. Chad Leverette calls the degree the most rigorous undergraduate option and says the program matches other institutions. Fetterolf, with the department since 1990, notes the certification as a guiding goal for future initiatives.
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Police prepare for busy holiday of travel
Law enforcement from South Carolina and Georgia join for Hands Across the Border to curb drunken driving during the Memorial Day to Labor Day period. A two day checkpoint at Exit 17 on I 520 highlighted intensified DUI enforcement amid rising travel and falling gas prices.
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Area Deaths and Funerals Notice 6A
Obituaries list multiple local deaths including Erma Louise Cookie Watson Warner of Hilton Head Island Ester Anna Wargowsky Schlea of Aiken Kaye Darlan Williamson of Aiken Lucille M Rowe of Ridge Spring and Roger Mark Gorham of Aiken with funeral details pending in the 6A notices.
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Aiken
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Weather Outlook: Mostly Sunny with Hot Highs
The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with a high near 94 and a low around 65. A five day outlook follows, with no significant precipitation expected.
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