Inmate Captured Hours After Escape at Greenwood County
A state prison inmate Brent Lenning 36 fled a work site Saturday from Lower Savannah Pre-Release Center and was captured hours later in Greenwood County. He was working for G G Construction Co at Cheltenham Drive when the escape occurred. Lenning, sentenced to 30 months for rapture to stop for an officer and gery, was to be released in May 2003.
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Brent Rodgers Lenning
Greenwood County
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Ood County
Lower Savannan
Wire Road
Administration Plans Budget Review Amid Aiken County Talks
Craig Killian vows to review all positions and adjust funding if needed, targeting top administration while recognizing weekend and holiday workers. The piece questions protections for homeless, fixed income, and very poor amid potential strikes and asks what a fixed income individual should do.
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Aiken County Public Works
Craig Killian
United States
Public feedback urged on sheriff candidates qualifications
Readers are urged to know more about sheriff candidates, requesting details on educational background and years of service. The note invites submissions via Talkback hotline or email to the Aiken Standard, with comments that may be edited for space and no reader names published.
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Students dress up for career day at Jefferson Elementary
Fifth grader Alexandria Cumbee dressed as a clown for career dress-up day while Jefferson Elementary students learn about jobs during Career Emphasis Month in February. Dillion Jones tried a lawyer costume last year and a military uniform this year.
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Rob Novit
Jefferson Elementary School
Alexandria Cumbee
Julie Moore
Morgan Robinson
Dillion Jones
Danny Goff
Jefferson
Betty ‘Thomason
JROTC Students Help Sort Girl Scout Cookies in Aiken
Naval Junior ROTC cadets from South Aiken High School sorted about 7 000 cases of Girl Scout cookies for distribution to troop leaders as part of a long running community service effort. Karen Stevens of the Girl Scouts Central Savannah River Council praised the cadets while ROTC Commander Larry Laughlin called the activity an example of NJROTC values.
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Aiken
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Girl Scouts Central
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Girl Scouts
April Pittman
ROTC
Larry ‘Laughlin
Njrotc
Rebecca Funderburk
Donna Schutzenhofer
Rob Novit
South Aikien High School
Danielle Thomas
Samantha Aaron
Firewise workshop educates on wildland urban interface
About 40 participants including firefighters emergency planners real estate agents and neighborhood representatives attended a four hour Firewise Communities workshop in Aiken SC sponsored by Aiken Public Safety the South Carolina Forestry Commission USC Aiken and the Hitchcock Foundation Adelaide Bailey noted wildfire is part of natural forest health and urged community assessments to rate wildland fire hazards Robbie and Thalia Stoddard of Foxchase praised the session Director Pete Frommer urged home protection steps such as clearing fuels around the home pruning lower tree limbs and removing debris from gutters.
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South Carolina Forestry Commission
USC Aiken
Hitchcock Foundation
Satuday
USCA
Calvin Bailey
S.C. Forestry Commission
Ature
Bailey
South Carlina
Forestry Commission
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Thalia Stoddard
Foxchase
Hitchcock Woods
Woods Watch
Aiken
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