Aiken County and City Offices Close for Labor Day
Aiken Standard offices close Monday for Labor Day to spend time with families, while a newspaper will publish as usual. County government offices libraries and the historical museum close for the holiday, with garbage drop-offs operating normally. City offices also close and garbage collection days shift a day for the holiday. schools banks and post offices close as well.
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S Aiken Senior Earns Environmental Honors
Alicia Randazzo, a senior at South Aiken High School, earned third place in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environmental Division 1995 High School Student Award in Environmental Science. Over three years she earned science fair honors for projects on environmental filters water experimentation and environmental experimentation of repelling Asian dams.
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Alicia Randazzo
South Aiken High School
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Environmental Division
Alicia
Sprawls Service & Sound Moves To New Location
Sprawls Service & Sound relocated to 856 York St. NE after starting in Rutland Drive. Opened Oct 1, 1977, the shop offers car and truck accessories, air conditioning and brake work, cruise controls, trailer hitches, and Hertz Penske truck rental dealer service. County earns safety award finalist recognition.
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Sprawls Service & Sound
York St
Sprawls
Rutland Drive
Don Sprawls
Concert crowds good despite foul weather at Hopeland Gardens
Ai enites drew about 8 000 attendees across 16 concerts in the 23rd Hopeland Gardens Summer Concert Series despite two rain outs and two relocated shows. City official Lisa J. Hall says attendance likely would have exceeded 10 000 without rain.
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Sins
Hopeland Gardens
Mother Nature
Aienites
Lisa J. Hall
City of
Aiken
Parks and Recreation Department
Aiken Civic Ballet
Aiken Community Band
Second Pan African Festival Parade in Aiken Friday
The second annual CSRA Pan African Festival in Aiken features a city parade from Park Avenue and Union Street east to Hampton Avenue and Greenville Street. The event includes dance, art, vendors, poetry, crafts, Caribbean foods, games, and music under the theme Hands Across The CSRA sponsored by the Second Baptist Young Adult Ministry.
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Scott Webster
Second Baptist Church
CSRA
Greenville Street Parkway
Park Avenue
Union Street
Hampton Avenue
Greenville Street
Aiken
Second Baptist Young Adult Ministry
Ark
Laurens
Abbeville Avenue
Joyce Slaughter
City Rec Supervisor To Share Programs At Conference
Lisa J. Hall, recreation program supervisor for the City of Aiken Parks and Recreation Department, will present at the Recreation in Small Communities Conference in Jackson Hole Wyo November 15 to 18. She will share Aiken anti drug efforts including Just Say No Rally and HALL Walk, Get RADICAL, and the Tough Team, noting their low cost and ease of use for small communities.
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Jackson Hole
Wyo
City of Aiken
Aiken
Witnesses Jailed In Murder Trial
Three witnesses from North Augusta were jailed after refusing to appear for testimony. Matella Davis Butler Diego Davis and Marion Tina Butler of 239 Five Notch Road were held by Aiken County authorities. Judge Casey Manning ordered them kept in custody and set another hearing to consider a transport order to bring them to Augusta for the murder trial. Richmond County DA Danny Craig's investigator said the witnesses agreed to testify but have repeatedly failed to appear. The defendants’ girlfriend Tina Butler is among those named in prior orders.
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Georgia
Augusta
Matella Davis Butler
Diego Davis
Marion Tina Butler
Five Notch Road
North Augusta
Aiken County
Casey Manning
Clint Yarborough
Kent Landry
Augusta Court
Larry M. Hendrix
Richmond County
Danny Craig
Manning
Hendrix
Butlers
Davis
McClain
Tina Butler
W. Lawrence Brown
Paul Short
Foster Mother's Hearing Delayed in Krystal Scurry Case
A preliminary hearing for Clarissa Bell, a former Department of Social Services foster mother, was rescheduled to November 1 in Judge Max Meek's Kalmia Plaza courtroom. Bell faces assault and battery and child neglect charges connected to Krystal Scurry's 1991 death. John J. Bell, her son, was convicted and sentenced to life for the killings and seeks a new trial.
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Department of Social Services
Clarissa Bell
Aiken
Max Meek
Meek
Kal‘mia Plaza
McClain death penalty trial moves forward in Augusta
Richmond County prosecutors seek witnesses for the murder trial of Mark Howard McClain the North Augusta man charged with the killing of Kevin Brown a Dominos Pizza manager during a robbery and burglary at Azalea Plaza on Washington Road on November 20 1994 Jury selection began Monday with opening arguments and testimony planned after Labor Day.
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Richmond County
Mark Howard McClain
North Augusta
Domino’s
McClain
Kevin Brown
Azalea Plaza
Washington Road
Brown
City Begins Tree Labeling Arboretum Project In Aiken
Aiken launches an arboretum labeling program funded by a 10000 grant from the US Forest Service. Phase one labels about 115 trees and shrubs in Hopelands and Rye Patch gardens. University of Georgia intern Todd Lasseigne notes every tree will be labeled as planners expect educational value to rise for visitors. The Friends of Hopelands and Rye Patch fund plaques totaling about 1000 dollars.
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Philip le
Roger P. LeDuc
Beth Newburn
Todd Lasseigne
Hopeland Gardens
Rye Patch
Aiken
US S. Forestry Commission
University of Georgia
Lasseigne
Friends of Hopelands
Roger P. LeDue
Hopelands
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