City rolls out phase one funding plan for utilities
Aiken City Council unveiled a 28.4 million phase one funding plan to rehabilitate aging water sewer and stormwater systems using on hand funds state loans and revenue bonds repaid by the utilities income. The plan aims to address downtown piping and valves as identified by urban modeling surveys and is billed as the first of at least three phases with no utility rate increases.
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Aiken
John Klimm
George Grinton
David Cheatwood
City hears crime update
Aiken Public Safety Chief Charles Barranco reported 2016 crime figures at a City Council meeting. The year showed rises in aggravated assaults and a spike in breaking and entering of automobiles with 102 and 241 increases respectively from 2015, many vehicles left unlocked.
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Barranco
Area Deaths List From Aiken and Nearby
Obituary notices for Catherine Chafin Aiken Ray Feaster Diane Gordon Thomas Howard Raymond Hutto Eunice Quackenbush Irene Simmons Earl Sizemore Peggy Turner and others reported with funeral details in the 4A section. Local services and burial arrangements listed for Warrenville Aiken New Ellenton Clearwater and nearby communities.
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Catherine Chafin
Aiken
Ray Feaster
Diane Gordon
Thomas Howard
Raymond Hutto
New Ellenton
Eunice Quackenbush
Warrenville
Irene Simmons
Earl Sizemore
Peggy Turner
Clearwater
Unlikely romance spans race and war in Edgefield history
Paula Wright traces a forbidden love between William Ramey, a Confederate soldier, and Kittie Simkins, a woman born into slavery, in Edgefield before the Civil War. The pair’s meeting near Francis Pickens’ home led to a wartime liaison, a child, and a complex tale of loyalty, fear, and race amid upheaval. Wright's research blends documents and anecdotes gathered in Atlanta, shared at the Aiken County Historical Museum.
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Paula Wright
William Ramey
Kittie Simkins
Wright
Edgefield
William
Francis Pickens
Edgewood
Pickens
South Carolina
Kittie
Aiken County
Atlanta
Virginia
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