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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 2010
Page
2
Tyrone Gleaton and Matthew Jackson pleaded guilty via Alford plea to voluntary manslaughter and armed robbery in the 2008 death of 19 year old Marquez Tyler. They receive 22 year total sentences, with 85 percent to be served, to be consecutive.
East Aiken Elementary fourth graders met Civil War re enactors Ed Mann and Wayne Jones portraying Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. They discussed causes like taxation and slavery, battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, and details of the 1865 Battle of Aiken on York Street. The event returns with public days on Feb. 19 20 at Powell Pond Road with a 2 p.m. battle and $12 gate admission.
Twenty six USC Aiken students were inducted in spring and fall 2009 into the Order of Omega. Inductees, all juniors or seniors with GPA above the Greek community average, are listed with Greek affiliation and hometowns.
The Adopt-A-Highway program in Aiken County invites groups to volunteer for 2 mile roadside trash patrols on select Saturdays in May August and November. SCDOT supplies bags vests gloves and safety gear. Last year 1 277 volunteers cleared 297 miles collecting 29 932 pounds across the county.
Local brief recalls a Saturday holdup at the Royal Inn with a gunman described as about 5 feet 8 inches and 150 pounds who fled after taking cash. Police say no suspect was located by the Aiken Bloodhound Tracking Team. Also reported a reserve deputy shot in the leg by a pellet gun incident nearby Thursday night. the shooter wore a white skull cap and fled with another man.
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