City Blueprints Green Infrastructure Project in Aiken
The City of Aiken launches a 3.3 million federal grant funded project to reduce storm water runoff and erosion in Hitchcock Woods. Woolport Inc Willing Construction and H G Reynolds build bioretention ponds rain gardens and pervious paving along Park Avenue Barnwell Avenue Cannon Street and near Newberry Street Festival Site with Clemson University Dr Gene Eidson heading monitoring efforts involving EPA DHEC and SC DOT.
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Hitchcock Woods
Woolport Inc
Park Avenue
City of
City Public Works
Larry Morris
Barnwell Avenue
Cannon Street
Newberry Street
Parkways
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Clemson University
Gene Eidson
South Carolina Department of Transportation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
DHEC
David Willing
Willing Construction
Deaths and Funerals 5 6A
Obituary brief lists names William V. Brown Aiken Willie B Dunbar Windsor James M Hartley Graniteville Lettie C Morris Johnston Wallace E Walker Sr Wagener Archibald A Weaver II Aiken area residents. No further details provided.
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William V
Bill” Brown
Aiken
Willie B. Dunbar
Windsor
James Michael Hartley
Graniteville
Lettie Crouch Morris
Johnston Wallace Edward Walker Sr
Wagener
Archibald Atchinson Weaver II
Local ARRA contracts total hundreds of millions at Savannah River Site
Recovery Act funds flow to SRS projects with about 266 million awarded to regional and national firms. The aim is to create roughly 3,000 jobs and accelerate environmental cleanup including P and R reactor decommissioning and waste shipment. Major contracts include Champion Inc for concrete, Havard Oil fuel supply, American DND cooling tower implosion, Ridge for tritiated oil treatment, GEL Laboratories and TestAmerica Labs for analysis, Bierlein Field Services for gantry crane work, and Materials and Energy Corp for site work.
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Savannah River
ARRA
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Aiken Standard
SRS
P and R
Champion, Inc
Iron Mountain
Mich
Plan
CSRA
Leesville
Havard Oil
American Dnd
Korea
St Johns Methodist hosts Global Impact Celebration
St John s United Methodist Church held its third Global Impact Celebration this week with a Wednesday welcome dinner and a Saturday Day of Service in Aiken. Visiting missionaries joined volunteers to support local partners including ACOM ACTS Aiken Pregnancy Care Center Christ Central Habitat for Humanity Helping Hands Joseph s Coat Salkehatchie and My Father s House in acts of kindness and outreach.
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St. John’s United Methodist Church
Aiken
ACOM
ACTS
Aiken Pregnancy Care Center
Christ Central
Habitat For Humanity
Helping Hands
Memoirs of a local Black author offer hope to others
Sylvester Ramsey Jr. overcomes a hard start in Aiken County and Johnston to become an author at 86. He left school at seven to run his father’s farm but pursued writing, producing Just this Side of Slavery and its sequel to share his life, struggles, and victories.
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Sylvester Ramsey Jr
Aiken County
Ramsey
Johnston
Ram
Rachel Johnson
Slyvester Ramsey Jr
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