Readers react to Jackson arrival and local issues in Aiken
A digest of public comments on Jesse Jackson's potential visit, parade candy policy, NAACP tactics, local policing conduct, Living Christmas Tree at Millbrook Baptist, city pay raises, and affordable housing. Readers urge dialogue via Talkback line and email, noting concerns about decorum, speed enforcement, and editorial balance.
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Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Aiken County
Aikenstandard
Aiken
Valley Empty Stocking Fund Boosted by $10,000 Donation
Midland Valley High School presented a $10,000 check to the Valley Empty Stocking Fund during the Christmas assembly. Principal Margaret Mullen announced the school’s yearlong effort, noting the donation accounts for about one third of the fund’s yearly total. Senior class president Paige Satcher helped lead pie-throwing fun as the campaign goal was celebrated. The fund, begun after World War II, now aids needy families throughout the Valley.
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Valley Empty
Midland Valley High School
Margaret Mullen
Valley Empty Stocking Fund
Mary Etta Walker
Mullen
Valley Fund
Walker
Midland Valley High
Midand Valley Symphonic
Paige Satcher
Courtney ,Thomas
Stacy Boyd
Deandra Jones
Allison Jones
Valley
Horse Creek Valley
Extradited suspect linked to South Carolina murder
Martinez man extradited to South Carolina on Wednesday is held on a murder charge. Jason Dwayne Wheatley, 22, is tied to the September 1996 slaying of Timothy Scott Colyer, whose body was found near Old Ludlow Lake Road after headlights revealed him in a wooded area. Kenneth Eugene Lamberth, 25, of Augusta, was later charged with murder in Colyer’s death.
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A Martinez, Gaman
South Carolina
Jason Dwayne Wheatley
Timothy Scott Colyer
North Augusta
Tive Tim Taemon
Colyer
Ludlow Lake Road
Kenneth Eugene Lamberth
Augusta
Wheatley
Columbia Nowsty
Pine Street
Gloverville
San Antonio
Bartley
Thornton
Lambert
Judge Accepts Guilty Plea in Child Abuse Case
Circuit Court Judge William Keesley accepts a guilty plea from Michael John McDonald 25 to attempting or committing an improper act on a child in a deal to spare the child from trial. Prosecutor Frank Young sought a sentence not more than five years. The child was five now but two at the time of the incident.
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William Keesley
Michael John McDonald
Keesley
Frank Young
McDonald
Young
Teen sexual assault case opens with defendant denying guilt
The teenage victim wept after the defendant Earnest Pressley denied wrongdoing on the stand. A DNA expert testified semen matched Pressley, while the defense sought a direct acquittal and the jury recessed to review complex evidence.
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Earnest Pressley
Andrew
Andy” Anderson
Pressley
Brenda Brisbin
Brisbin
Anderson
Keesley
Lily Gallman
South Carolina
Gallmans
Father asks mercy for driver in crash that killed two
In a Circuit Court hearing, the father of Clinton Bowles 19 and Daniel Webster 22 urged leniency for Terry Chapman, charged with drunken driving after a March crash that killed both men. Webster and Bowles opposed Chapman’s bond. prosecutors cited a March bond violation. Mauldin cited police video suggesting possible intoxication uncertainty.
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Terry Chapman
William Bowles
Clinton Bowles
Ron Webster
Daniel Webster
Bowles
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