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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 2009
Page
1
Readers are invited to visit the Aiken Standard website for the Create a Caption contest. New photos are posted frequently and visitors should check back to craft and submit clever captions.
A five foot five inch calf weighing 126 pounds named Lewis makes his debut at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia this week.
Clara Peterson of Augusta Georgia and Dorothy Dot Wiles Rourk of Williston are listed in Deaths and Funerals. The notice records their passing with details of service, burial and survivor information.
Kaitlynn Haney, a seventh grader at LBC Middle, won the Area 3 Spelling Bee and the Aiken County District title. Runner up Tristan Brown and others competed as URS Corporation and WSRC awarded prizes including a Dell laptop and Books-A-Million gift certificates.
Principal John Mills notes steady gains at Busbee Elementary Wagener with a new growth rating in the state report after a three month delay. The absolute measure remains below average on PACT performance for the second year, while NAEP and MAP show progress in some areas.
Parents will soon receive a summary of state report cards from their children's schools. The online site ed sc gov topics research and stats school report card 2008 lists absolute and growth ratings for all schools and offers both summary and full versions.
The 2008 South Carolina report cards reveal more schools rated below average and at risk, despite higher test scores lifting some schools to better ratings. The release was delayed by nearly three months after a grading error by a contractor.
Dora Azrak would ask condemned killer Luke Williams one question and says why. The 1991 murders of Linda Williams 39 and her son Shaun 12 were caused by a botched arson in Edgefield County. Williams is scheduled for lethal injection at 6 p.m. with motive tied to a $584000 life insurance payout.
Aiken County Planning and Development cited code violations at The Spot and The Shack forcing closures on February 11. Owner James Key, who has ties to both venues, reopened them and told deputies he wants the county to force another closing so he can sue.
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