Area Businesses Plan For Holiday Closings
Area offices and services outline Christmas holiday closures in Aiken County and neighboring areas. County offices libraries museums and some landfills suspend operations while city offices and North Augusta services adjust schedules. Banks post limited openings and the Aiken Standard notes holiday deadlines.
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Aiken County
Aiken County Public Library
Aiken County Museum
City of Aiken
Aiken
City of North
North Augusta
Sanitation Department
U.S. Postal Services
Area Banks and Savings and Loans
All Area Savings and Loans
South Carolina National Bank
Bankers Trust
Citizens and
Southern National Bank
First Citizens Bank
Aiken Standard
Aiken Standard Daily
Aiken Child Seeks TV Gifts and Amnesia Joke
A four year old girl visiting Santa says she wants everything she sees on TV. A five year old offers a humorous take on amnesia, calling it some kind of French fever. Meanwhile Eddie Buck gains a playful nickname as Pacer Prep event unfolds at USC Aiken.
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Santa
Tracker ‘Smurf
Aiken High
Eddie Buck
Buck
USC Aiken
Bubba
Weather defies calendar with unseasonable warmth
Forecasters report winter starts with unseasonable warmth across the state. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s persist into the weekend with highs in the 60s to 70s and lows in the 40s to 50s. A small chance of rain exists in the northwest on Saturday and Monday, with broader showers possible Sunday.
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California
Teen-Ager Dies In One-Car Accident
A 15 year old North Augusta student William Brannon Bryan died when the Jeep CJ 5 he rode in with four others left a frontage road off Five Notch Road at Interstate 20 and overturned at about 10 45 p m Brent Zachow 17 drove the vehicle and was in fair condition with a broken leg at University Hospital John Williams 16 was in surgery with a broken back possible broken neck and torn ligaments Barbara Murphy a staff member at North Augusta High said Clayton Lewis and James Dowd were treated and released The accident is under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol
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North Augusta
William Brannon Bryan
Aiken County
Sue Townsend
John Williams
Talmadge Memorial Hospital
Barbara Murphy
North Augusta Senior High
Brent Zachow
University Hospital
Clayton
Lewis
James Dowd
Townsend
Rose Butler
Five Notch Road
Interstate 20
Gorbachev Sees Star Wars Risk in Future Arms Talks
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that Reagan's Star Wars plan could derail negotiations on nuclear arms. Britain’s Labour leader Neil Kinnock and foreign affairs spokesman Denis Healey said the concern was widely shared. Gorbachev toured Britain amid talks with Thatcher allies and emphasized space-based defenses could block progress toward missile cuts.
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London
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Reagan
Britain
Cowley
Oxford
London Chamber of Commerce
Trade Department
Kinnock
Gorbachev
U.S
George P. Shultz
Andrei A. Gromyko
Geneva
Outer Space
Healey
Konstantin A. Chernenko
Moscow
Space
USS
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Washington
Strategic Defense Initiative
Weinberger
Margaret Thatcher
Local drives swell as holiday aid totals rise
Donors contribute to Aiken Jaycees Christmas Shopping Tour at Wal Mart in Aiken with 8 10 a m start. Salvation Army Christmas Cheer Fund tops thirty one thousand with recent gifts pushing totals. Valley Empty Stocking Fund also gains reaching over ten thousand. Mail requests and address details guide assistance distribution.
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Aiken County
Aiken Jaycees
Salvation Army
P.O
Aiken
P.C
Wal Mart
Empty Stocking Fund
Valley Empty Stocking Fund
Langley
S.C
Clearwater
Sniteville
City debates banning front yard satellite dishes in Aiken
Aiken may pass an ordinance banning front yard satellite dish antennas after Judge Rodney Peeples ruled dishes are not structures under the city code. Council members say action hinges on the ruling and potential appeal, with five year allowances for current antennas and costs to be assessed.
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Aiken
Rodney A. Peeples
Robert S
Skipper
Perry Jr
Peeples
Ray E. Cole
Larry F. Lowe
Henry Summerall Jr
State Supreme Court
Perry
Cole
Lowe
Crosland Park
Zoning Board of Adjustments
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International Press Institute
Ara
Fran Chapman
Master In Equity
Alex Beasley
Beasley
Summerall
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