Keep Aiken Elementary Hopes To Stay Open
A group named Keep Aiken Elementary Committee forms to preserve the school as state officials place it in advised status. The district faces potential loss of state funding if deficiencies are not corrected within two years. A recommendation calls for a new school for Aiken and Laurens Street students as the latter is warned to remedy issues within one year.
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Keep Aiken Elementary
Aiken Elementary
State Board of Education
Aiken
Robert Smoak
Keep Aiken
County School Board
Laurens Street
No Progress In U S Talks With Soviets
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said no headway was made to resume nuclear arms control talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. NATO sources suggested Moscow might merge Geneva and Vienna talks into a Forward-Based Systems framework, possibly resuming conventional arms discussions in March while chemical weapons ban support was hinted.
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Oslo
Norway
George P. Shultz
Andrei A. Gromyko
Shultz
Stockholm
Sweden
Europe
NATO
Gromyko
Moscow
Gneva
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Washington
Olav
Geneva
West Germany
Britain
Ira Coward becomes new president of Greater Aiken Chamber
Ira Coward also known as Bud is elected president of the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce. Aiken native with long ties to the chamber since 1981 he rose from volunteer to board vice president before taking the presidency. He is director of engineering at Graniteville Company and is married to Bonnie Dietz with a six year old daughter Caroline. He plans to balance duties with his full time job and family while focusing on constitutional tax limits education quality and school facilities.
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Greater Aiken
Chamber
Emination
Coward
Aiken County
Citadel
Pat Conroy
Lords of Discipline
Conroy
Georgia Tech
Air Force
Aiken
Graniteville Company
Bonnie Dietz
Caroline
Graniteville
Chamber of Commerce
June Murff
Bud Coward
Phil Jones
Riley Urged to Lobby More as Support Gaps Emerge
A USC study led by Dr. Robert Botsch finds Gov. Riley has only neutrality from business groups on his 1 percent sales tax proposal. He must mobilize groups to lobby for the increase, as contributors favoring it average $979 versus $2,742 for opponents. The study, not random, covered education and Ways and Means committees and analyzed over 60,000 items across eight months.
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S.C. House of Representative
Richard Riley
University of South Carolina
Robert E. Botsch
Usc-Aiken
Riley
S.C
Botsch
USCA
Retiree Jacober Delights Aiken Community With Fifth Sendoff
At St. Mary's, Mrs. Jacober, a math teacher for over two decades, attends her fifth retirement celebration in three years while reportedly returning to teach more classes. Dr. Robert Alexander quipped at the Aiken Jaycees meeting that he was told to keep it brief, yet the speaker left early.
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Jacober
St. Mary’s
Robert Alexander
PSA Lawsuit Case Heard Beginnings in Charleston
Aiken County Public Service Authority faces a lawsuit from two construction firms over the Horse Creek Water Treatment Plant. The case is set for 10 a.m. Monday before Federal Judge Solomon Blatt Jr. The dispute centers on alleged deficiencies in the plant’s construction.
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Charleston
Aiken County Public Service Authority
Stan Wagher
Horse Creek
Solomon Blatt Jr
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U.S
NASU
United States
Ira Coward
Fran Chapman
Gov. Riley
Botsua Riley
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