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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 2013
Page
3
The note praises a local company for creating 200 new jobs with wages above poverty level. It notes nearly 5 000 applications, argues for federal infrastructure funding, and urges elected officials to act to keep work local and reduce outsourcing. The piece calls for unity and action to secure jobs.
Citizens question why Beaufort spends more on safety while Aiken faces higher intersection fatalities. They cite SCDOTs Road Map to Safety showing 44 percent of crashes at 1.3 percent of intersections and oppose a $26 million Hitchcock Parkway project that omits dangerous Aiken County intersections.
The Aiken area hosted three Christmas celebrations Thursday night: Hopelands Christmas, Night of 1 000 Lights downtown, and Christmas on the Lake. The author suggests planners should stagger the events to boost attendance at all three.
After a Broadway Boys show at Etherredge Center, a reader lost a wallet. It was found on the car hood with all money and documents intact and returned. The writer thanks the finder and invites comments via TalkBack or email.
Aiken High School senior Brandon Muniz earned a $5000 scholarship through the U S Senate Youth Program and Hearst Foundation and will join 102 delegates in Washington D C March 8 15. He and Con way’s Tanner Slagle were SC finalists among 644 nominees.
The state public forum will explain registering agricultural surface water withdrawals under the 2010 act. Walther Farms of Windsor seeks an agricultural registration to withdraw water from the South Edisto River for potato farming, with a 805 million gallon monthly limit approved previously. The event January 7 at 6 30 p m at Aiken Electric Cooperative in Aiken invites questions from conservationists and residents.
A South Aiken High School teacher, 41, was charged with five counts of sexual battery with a student after a months long relationship with a 16 year old. He posted a $25 000 bond and was released as the district placed him on paid administrative leave pending investigation.
Habitat for Humanity in Aiken County will host an informational kickoff meeting for the 2014 Women Build on January 7 at 7 p m in the sanctuary of South Aiken Presbyterian Church 171 Whiskey Road. Attendees should enter through the sanctuary doors on Whiskey Road.
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