Aiken County Development Committee Chooses Four Firms
The Aiken County Development Committee heard four proposals for the Johnstown Community Development Project sewer work. Zimmerman Leopold and Evans offered $32,815 the lowest, with Wilbur Smith at $34,000 Wiedeman and Singleton at $37,000 and Davis and Floyd at $41,227. The panel narrowed from 14 names to invite four firms.
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Aiken County Council Development Committee
Johnstown
Davis
Floyd
County Planners Outline Busy Thursday Agenda
Aiken County Planning Commission will meet with a full slate of items. Preliminary plats for Exeter subdivision on Banks Mill Road near Mallet Hill and Phase K of Gem Lakes on Town Creek Road are on the docket.
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Aiken County Planning Commission
Exeter
Banks Mill Road
Mallet Hill
Gem Lakes
Town Creek Road
DSO
A.B. Beverage Co
Richland Avenue
Madison Development Co
U.S. 1
Tony Carr
Lynn
Ranchettes
Freeman Street
Pleasure Island Road
Biddle Realty
Silver Bluff Road
Henry Holland
Aiken County Tech Education Panel Announces Meeting Schedule
The Aiken County Commission for Technical Education sets meetings at 5 15 p m each second Monday in the main conference room at Aiken Technical College chaired by Craig D Musick. Public access is ensured.
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Aiken County
Area Four Advisory Council to Meet in New Holland
The Administrative Area Four Advisory Council will meet tomorrow night at 8 in the Area Four office in New Holland. The agenda includes appeals of discipline cases and reviews of field trips and fundraising requests.
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Administrative Area Four Advisory Council
Area Four
New Holland
Fire kills 5 month old in Spartanburg house blaze
Authorities say a fire that killed five month old Michael Tyrone Bailey was accidental. The infant and two other children were reportedly alone in the cinder block house when the blaze started Monday night.
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Spartanburg
Michael Tyrone Bailey
Michael Lee Gentry
Angie Lee Bailey
Aiken Gymnastics Center draws national attention
Cable News Network filmed Center director Wes Stout guiding preschool and handicapped students. The footage will air in a Looking Up segment on CNN Headline News. Elizabeth Woodard wore a dress by Aiken seamstress ShaAne Chang in the Miss USA Pageant.
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Aiken
Cable
Wes Stout
CNN
South Carolina
Elizabeth Woodard
ShaAne Chang
Minor Injuries Reported In Pine Log Road Accident
A three car crash around 2 25 p m on Pine Log Road near the entrance to Aiken Elementary School left passengers with minor injuries and the vehicles moderately damaged. South Carolina Highway Patrol and Aiken Public Safety responded. Two cars skidded off the road into a grassy ditch. one car rested against a tree. No fire danger noted. incident report unavailable.
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Pine Log
New Aiken
South Carolina Highway Patrol
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Aiken Fire Service District
Highway Patrol
Key's Presentation May Shift Aiken Bridge Position
Walter Key Jr. urged Aiken County Council to revisit Bulls Branch Bridge plans noting a 1984 closure and rising costs from 100 000 to 400 000 with 20 percent local matching. The March public hearing aims to hear supporters and opponents as state funds risk transfer.
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Key
County Council
Walter Key Jr
Aiken
W. Scott Barnes
Aiken County
Barnes
Carrol H
Warner
Garry R. Smith
Smith
Governor’s Office
Sheriff’s Department
Brightharp and Pettigrew win edgefield district primaries
In the 82nd District primaries held in Edgefield and northern Aiken counties Democrat George L. Brightharp wins with 2 255 votes over William P. Keesley and Patsy W. Crouch Republican John W. Pettigrew Jr takes 56 percent with 715 votes over Clyde R. Jackson III A special election is set for April 7 to fill the seat after Joseph F. Anderson Jr resigned to become a U.S. District Judge Brightharp becomes the first black candidate to seek the district seat and Pettigrew is a USC Law School graduate who previously advised Sen Strom Thurmond in Washington D.C.
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Edgefield
Aiken
George L. Brightharp
John W. Pettigrew Jr
S.C. House of Representatives
Brightharp
William P. Keesley
Realton
Patsy W. Crouch
Keesley
Crouch
Paine College
Augusta
Pettigrew
Clyde R. Jackson III
Jackson
University of South Carolina School of Law
Washington, D.C
Strom Thurmond
Joseph F. Anderson Jr
U.S
County man dies of hypothermia in Graniteville home
Patrocinto Blackburn was found dead in a Seastrunk Street house in Graniteville with a thin blanket and no heat or lights. Coroner Sue Townsend reports hypothermia as the cause. no relatives have been found and the body is at Your Funeral Home in New Ellenton awaiting disposition.
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Patrocinto Blackburn
Aiken
Sue Townsend
Elijah Hill
New Ellenton
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County Development Committee
Technical Education Commission
Area Four Council
Tommorrow
Phil Jones
Pine Log Road
New Aiken Elementary School
Aiken County Emergency Medical Services
Public Works
Public Works Surplus
William F
Bo) Thompson
Sheriff's Department
Brightharp, Pettigrew
Edgefield County
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