Verbal fireworks open session as flag tops talks begin
The opening day session featured sharp exchanges as lawmakers clashed verbally. Blood supplies in the CSRA are running critically low with flu cases rising and holiday donations down, threatening elective surgeries. Shepeard Community Blood Center and South Carolina blood service officials urged continued donor participation to restore a three day inventory.
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CSRA
Phyllis Burke
South Carolina
Shepeard Community Blood Center
Shepeard
Burke
Christopher Cockrell
New legislator begins term amid flag clash and lobbying
Albert County's Skipper Perry starts his term with a tour of the Department of Transportation and office setup. In Columbia, Republicans return to a charged session on the Confederate flag as NAACP protests, billboards, and high emotional stakes unfold around leadership and budgets.
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Albert County
Skipper Perry
Perry
Department of Transportation
Bill Clyburn
Roland Smith
Scott Beck
Blatt
Statehouse
House
Columbia
NAACP
Aiken County
South Carolina
Clyburn
General Assembly
Boycot
Senate
David Wilkins
Greenville
Adam Burton
Substitute teacher pay eyed for boost in Aiken County
Aiken County Board of Education discussed raising substitute pay to attract qualified staff. A panel recommended higher daily rates, from 38 to 70 dollars depending on education and certification, plus more advertising, training, a permanent sub pool, a pilot in Area Four, and possible centralized assignment and sick-leave reimbursement. No vote was taken.
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Aiken County
Frank Roberson
North Augusta
Clearwater
Area Four
John Bradley
Miracle on an Aiken County highway rescue
Aiken County survivor Jean Beckman credits EMS technicians John Rutland Greg Bailey Bryan Miller and Donald Hanson with saving her life after a tractor trailer crushed her minivan at the U S 1 and Ludlow Lake Road intersection on February 4 1998. Her husband Donald died in the same crash. Braithwaite described a crane assist that aided the rescue and recovery.
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Aiken
Robin Braithwaite
Jean
Braithwa
EMS
Jean Beckman
U.S. 1
Ludlow Lake Road
John Rutland
Greg Bailey
Bryan Miller
Donald Hanson
Aiken County
Beckman
Donald
She Ledithwaite
Beckmans
Augusta
Joseph Jones
Mrs. Beckman
Braithwaite
Deaths and Funerals Notice List
Norman town Augusta Platt's Funeral Home Cecil B. Bryan Jr Edgefield Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Homes Barbara Jean Kemp Aiken Cheatham Funeral Home Mary Bonney Lock Highland Beach Fla Rivers Funeral Home Dorothy McElhaney Rosenberg Clearwater Hatcher Funeral Home Ruby Gleaton Zimmerman Graniteville Napier Funeral Home James Earl Fanning Aiken George Funeral Homes Robert H. Fields Batesburg Leesville Hatcher Funeral Home Obituary not.
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Norman Town
Augusta
Platt’s
Cecil B. Bryan Jr
Edgefield
Edgefield Mercantile
Barbara Jean Kemp
Aiken
Cheatham
Mary Bonney Lock
Highland Beach
Fla
Rivers
Dorothy McElhaney Rosenberg
Clearwater
Hatcher
Ruby Gleaton Zimmerman
Graniteville
Napier
James Earl Fanning
George
Robert H. Fields
Batesburg-Leesville
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