Education Board Considers Aiken High Accreditation
RIDGE SPRING The Aiken County Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. at Ridge Spring Monetta Elementary to discuss capital improvement projects including correcting accreditation deficiencies at Aiken High School and adjusting the North Augusta High School heating project cost from 250000 to 205000. The 1985 86 total projects cost 2071000 exceeds projected revenue.
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Ridge Spring
Aiken
Aiken High School
Department of Facility Management
Special Revenue Fund
Lethal Injection Bill Advances in South Carolina
Sponsors call for replacing the electric chair with lethal injection arguing evolution of methods. Since 1912 South Carolina has executed 242 condemned inmates by electric chair.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Eight bluebirds squeeze into nesting box in subzero cold
A writer recalls eight bluebirds huddling in a single nesting box during minus 24 degree weather. After a warm 48 hour break and a blizzard, the birds returned and 15 emerged at dawn. The piece notes a pending warm spell and reports first sightings of pine siskins by John Hatcher and Theresa Randall, with goldfinches and purple finches present in the yard.
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Ohio
John Hatcher
Theresa Randall
Hahn Avenue
Bill Would Expand Industrial Commission to Reduce Backlog
State Rep. Vic Rawl pushes a bill to raise the Industrial Commission from seven to nine members. The aim is to unclog a backlog after 5,000 cases were scheduled for hearings last year but only 1,300 were heard. Chairman James J. Reid supports a new framework and notes the current 1935 system is outdated.
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Columbia
Vic Rawl
State Industrial Commission
Charleston Democrat
James J. Reid
Reid
South Aiken Wins Aiken County Academic Tournament
South Aiken High School won the final round at North Augusta High School scoring 760 to 420 over Aiken High. Coach Susan Player leads the South Aiken team which earns an invitation to the Horry County Invitational Brain Game.
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South Aiken High School
Aiken
North Augusta High School
South Aiken
Aiken High School
Susan Player
South Aikien
Horry County
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Jackson
Ginny Southworth
Bill
Rawl
House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee
Heritage
Playtex
Nobody's Perfect
ARROW
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