Five New Schools Sought in Aiken County Plan
A Blue Ribbon Committee report to the Aiken County School Board urges construction of five new schools totaling over one million square feet. The plan calls for two elementary schools and a middle school in Area 1, plus one elementary each in Areas 2 and 5, with additions and renovations at existing campuses. The total space need is 1,041,395 square feet to support the district’s pupil to teacher targets.
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Aiken Counte
Aiken
North Augusta
New Ellenton-Jack
Bundle Up Weather Moving In
Weather forecast for Arkenites calls for a warm start near 60 on Tuesday followed by a drop to 22 at night with 10 mph winds. The pattern shows highs in the 40s to upper 50s later in the week and weekend, with milder air returning Sunday into the upper 60s.
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Strowman
Frosty
GM to close plants and cut white collar jobs next year
GM will shut two plants in Arlington Texas and Moraine Ohio eliminating 6 400 jobs and lay off up to 15 000 white collar workers next year to offset record losses. The Oshawa Ontario plant will close after 1994. North American operations lose about 15 million daily.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
Texas
Ohio
Arlington
Moraine
Detroit Free Press
Oshawa
Ontario
Detroit News
North American
Burglars Add To Christmas Pain
An Anderson community fundraiser collected at least $90 and several toys for the Swofford family after burglars stole tools worth 10 000 and Christmas gifts for 8 year old Steven. Dale Swofford, unemployed, had built up his tool collection over a decade. The theft occurred while the family visited Steven's ill grandmother in Anderson Memorial Hospital. Local station organized the drive to ease the loss.
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Anderson — Anderson
Swofford
Anderson
Woffords
Steven
Mrs. Swofford
Timmy Sevakis
Fed Pressured To Cut Interest Rates Further
Washington sees the Fed chopping rates again as Bush aides and congressional critics urge bolder moves to revive the stalled economy. Greenspan faces sharp questions in Congress while the Fed eyes a 4 percent discount rate and 4.25 percent federal funds target by year end.
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Fed
Washington
Federal Reserve
Bush
Congress
Alan Greenspan
Greenspan
Federal Open Market Committee
White House
ABC News
Washington Post
Blue Ribbon Panel Recommends New Schools in Aiken County
The Blue Ribbon Panel recommends constructing a 600 student elementary school plus a second elementary school to replace North Aiken Elementary and a 600 to 800 student middle school in addition to existing plans. The Aiken County Board of Education will decide which recommendations to pursue.
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Aiken County
North Aiken
County Council Endorses Zoning Plan After Tuesday Hearing
Aiken County Council, after two hours of name calling, approves on second reading a zoning and development standards ordinance for fringe areas. The Gem Lakes group GLOW petitions to protect home values while Horse Creek Valley residents protest. Council votes 6 1 with Chairman Warner abstaining citing neutrality.
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Aiken County
Aiken
Horse Creek Valley
Gem Lakes
GLOW
Carrol H. Warner
Willar Hightower
J. Allen Brodie
Gene Duckett
Eddie Butler
James Bland
Kathy Rawls
Ronnie Young
Warner
Agencies Sign Pact For Nuclear Cleanup At SRS
The Savannah River Site enters a Federal Facility Agreement among EPA DOE and South Carolina DHEC to guide a comprehensive cleanup under RCRA and CERCLA. The draft pact opens public comment Dec 16 1991 with a 60 day window through Feb 13 1992. Written comments go to EPA Region IV in Atlanta.
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Savannah River Site
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Department of Energy
South Carolina
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
SRS
U.S. Epa
Att. Srs
Courtland Street
N.E
Atlanta
Community Members Named in Local Notice
Lizzie Drayton Fairfax Dorothy Folger Randy Grandy Wagoner Joe Hancock Vaucluse Elizabeth Hough Aiken Sally Moss North Augusta Vernon Rogers Aiken James Schumpert Ward Josephine Smith Aiken See Page 6A for details.
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Lizzie Drayton
Fairfax
Dorothy Folger
Pickens
Randy Grandy
Wagoner
Joe Hancock
Vaucluse
Elizabeth Hough
Aiken
Sally Moss
North Augusta
Vernon Rogers
James Schumpert
Ward
Josephine Smith
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Ginny Southworth
Kennedy
Cindi Goldfuss
Robert Stempel
The
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Martin Crutsinger
House
DOE
Designers
Leena Eenenes
Paden
Louis Grizzard
Eros
Proud
Hooper
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