Aiken Regional Main Entrance Closure and Local Alerts
The main entrance to Aiken Regional Medical Centers will be closed to through traffic starting Monday for ongoing construction. Access remains via the front steps with valet service for handicapped patients. Residents should beware of a possible scam using the State Department’s name to solicit for the South Carolina Department of Mental Retardation. call 734-2169 with company details for Columbia. The USC Aiken Playhouse presents The Three Bears at 11 a.m. today at the Ethredge Center, directed by Kenneth Seay. The Aiken Driving Club’s Valentine drive is Saturday at 1 p.m., starting at the Carriage Museum Rye Patch, with a dedication ceremony naming the Carriage Museum the Clifford Gerde Carriage Museum in memory of the late founder.
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Clifford Gerde
Correction notice on Hartnett remarks
The Aiken Standard apologizes for a Friday publication error mislabeling statements by Republican senatorial candidate Tommy Hartnett. The word venal was incorrect. the proper term should have been vindictive.
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Aiken
Aiken native aids Clinton campaign in Super Tuesday push
Aiken native Doug Heyl, 29, works to help Bill Clinton campaign across states involved in Super Tuesday primaries. He first met Clinton five years ago while aiding South Carolina governor campaign efforts and cites Clinton’s resilience amid controversy. Heyl credits USC Aiken professor Dr. Bob Busch for inspiring his political career.
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New Hampshire
Non-Uniform Day At Aiken Prep Aids Helping Hands
Ai ken Preparatory School elementary grades abandon uniforms for a day to aid the Helping Hands Center. Students brought nonperishable canned goods and raised about $100 in value while learning empathy and community support through the school’s student council and staff.
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Little Helping Hands
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Mary Tyler
Aiken Prep
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Tucker
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Helping Hands
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Cathy ‘Tutera
Cablevision aids Aiken Kiwanis talk on long haul
Palmetto Cablevision founder Steve Edleman urged the Aiken Kiwanis Club that cablevision grew from a 1950s idea to distribute entertainment. He cited $3 to $4 million in investment and noted potential future delivery by microwave or window antenna. He explained rising program costs and Palmetto’s community support including free service to schools and public groups.
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California
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Palmetto
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Houndslake Country Club
South Carolina judge to decide burial rights dispute
Circuit Judge L Henry McKellar in Columbia will determine who holds possession of the body of Sereesed George aw eabreecsant officer after two women reached a settlement to drop damages. Bettye P Clark pursues title to two burial plots for her husband Roberts Perry and the body of the deputy sheriff buried July 3, 1990, with Mrs Perry seeking reburial per a 1942 dead man's law.
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Grovetown
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North Augusta
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Aiken Doctor urges oats and daily steps for heart health
Aiken physician Dr Ray B Vaughters Jr spoke to the Aiken Sunrise Rotary about lowering cholesterol to reduce heart disease risk. He urged daily health habits including an hour for oneself, aspirin, exercise, vitamins, stress reduction, and writing worries for 10 days. He highlighted oat bran as a key daily aid and noted each 1 percent cholesterol drop lowers heart disease risk by about 2 percent.
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Aiken
Dr. Vaughters
Lincoln County Cannot Recover Trial Costs After Prisoner Case
Lincoln County Superior Court judge ruled South Carolina must not pay over $100,000 in costs from the 1990 murder trial and appeal of Johnny Dee Jones who escaped from McCormick Correctional Institution in 1988. Jones was sentenced to death for Randall Reeves's murder in Lincolnton. conviction later overturned. County argued poor inmate supervision across the border. judge said costs recoverable only from convicted defendant, not from South Carolina or its corrections department. County officials had raised taxes to cover expenses.
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