Multiple Aiken County thefts and break ins reported
Police blotter details several incidents around Aiken and Graniteville including auto break ins on Richland Avenue with stolen stereo equipment and a passenger aiding concealment, a sex for cocaine assault, mobile unit burglary at Aiken High School stealing printers monitors modems and keyboards, a Williams Road shooting under investigation, car theft on Old Powderhouse Road, home burglaries on Whaley Pond Road Holmans Church Road Celeste Avenue Green Range Road and Edgefield Road, vandalism on Edgefield Highway, and property damaged shrubbery at Sand Bar Ferry Road.
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County Council
Richland Avenue
Hampton House Apartments
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Aiken High School
Williams Road
Aiken County
Sand Bar Ferry Road
Old Jackson Highway
Beech Island
Garden Club
Celeste Avenue
North Augusta
Payton Place
Edgefield Highway
Eureka
Ladies Galaxy
Granite Street
Graniteville
Sheriff's Office
Edgefield Road
Green Range Road
Sign on Woodside fence warns horses may chew cars
A Woodside Plantation sign warns park at your own risk due to horses that may chew vehicles. The sign itself shows extensive bite marks, suggesting the warning is also compromised.
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Woodside Plantation
Winter prescribed burns planned at Savannah River Site and Hitchcock Woods
The Savannah River Natural Resource Management and Research Institute will start its winter burning program at the Savannah River Site weather permitting today. Helicopter ignition by Wackenhut will apply small spheres to start fires and reduce wildlife hazards while preserving Site operations and security. The Hitchcock Foundation also plans prescribed burns across Hitchcock Woods over the coming months with Aiken Public Safety notified and signs posted. burns aim to manage forest health and habitat, including protection of the endangered red cockaded woodpecker.
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Savannah River Natural Resource Management and Research Institute
Savannah River
Ron Shurney
Hitchcock Foundation
Hitchcock Woods
Aiken Department of Public Safety
City of Aiken
The Sign Man Bowles Paints Windows Across Georgia and Florida
Athens native Dale Bowles known as The Sign Man paints scenes on translucent windows in the Central Savannah River Area and beyond. He has completed about 380 window murals including Christmas depictions for Pizza Hut and Gurley’s Supermarket, plus sports figures at Augusta venues. Bowles, 45, started painting at 18 and now completes a window in an hour or less. He promotes his work on local TV and charges half the going rate for glass palettes, offering to repaint if customers are not impressed. He can be contacted by beeper at 706 11 5355.
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Dale Bowles
Bowles
Athens
Savannah River
Aiken
Augusta
Clearwater
Warrenville
Pizza Hut
Richland Avenue
Gurley’s
Gerald Jones Honda
Garner
Washington Road
David Justice
Atlanta Braves
Richard Petty
Dale Earnhardt
Daytona Beach
Florida
Missing woman found in Bath woods after 20 hour search
Virginia Kreider, 76, of Aiken, was reported missing after walking from Bald Eagle Court Friday. A resident found her in a wooded area at 11:35 Saturday morning, uninjured, and she was treated at the Medical College of Georgia and released the same day. Police and public safety units, including a bloodhound team, had searched the Langley and Gloverville area.
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Virginia Kreider
Aiken
Michael Frank
Cheaper By the Dozen charms Aiken Youth Wing audience
Teen comedy about Anne Gilbreth and silk stockings drives a family through teen angst and romance. The Youth Wing of the Aiken Community Playhouse staged the show directed by Chuck Shick with Dora Rhinehart as assistant. Performances run eight tonight and January 22 with a 3 p.m. matinee Sunday.
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Anne Gilbreth
Heidi Sampson
Aiken Comm
Ty Playhouse
Katey Rich
Ernestine
Andrea Mikel
Martha
Sarah
Social Disorder and Travel in January Reflections
A columnist recalls depressing January and February, jokes about elections, and visits travel magazines. He contrasts hype in South Africa with rising crime, noting police killings and harsh justice while hinting at broader political cynicism and personal paranoia.
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SRS
Ron Baxley
Mi Rancho
By Nina J. Nndiffer
ACP
Aaron Knowles
Diane Ryals
Bryan Willoughby
Gilbreths
Anne
R.J. Cooper
Barber
Clinton
Larry Flynt
Larry
South Africa
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Capetown
Langley
Carl Langley
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