Community voices urge cleanup pride and budget caution
A letter urges ACTS volunteers for Hitchcock Parkway trash cleanup and thanks workers. It questions city plans after Dillard's departure, opposes widening Belvedere Clearwater Road to five lanes, and notes political gridlock. The writer references an Aiken Standard article and invites reader feedback. Lottery results for several games are listed.
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Aiken
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Nuclear plant to hire 1000 workers for new reactors
SCE&G plans to hire 1000 more workers this year and peak construction staff at 4500 as Units 2 and 3 of the VC Summer plant near Jenkinsville push toward initial operation in 2019 and 2020. The utility, 55 percent owned by SCANA with Santee Cooper holding 45 percent, has Fluor as main contractor and Westinghouse as a subcontractor.
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Steve Byrne
Sce&g
Byrne
Citizens For Nuclear Technology Awareness
Bryne
Aiken Technical College
South Carolina
SCANA
Fluor
Chicago, Bridge and Iron
Cb&i
Westinghouse
Derrek Asberr
VC Summer Plant
CNTA
Don Bridges
Chuck Munns
Beech Island Man Granted Bond In Fatal Hit and Run Case
Beech Island man Ryan Isaac Kelly, 34, released on $50,000 bond after being charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death in a Jan. 14 Hammond Road collision that killed 15 year old Erick Giles. Giles was pronounced dead at the scene. Kelly was arrested Jan. 15 and held at the Aiken County detention center prior to bond. Giles is the second Silver Bluff student killed in a January hit and run, following 15 year old David Crutchfield killed Jan. 3 on North Street near New Ellenton. Burns faces felony DUI with death and other charges after turning himself in.
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Silver Bluff
Hammond Road
Ryan Isaac Kelly
Aiken County Detention Center
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Second Judicial Circuit Court
Kelly
Erick Giles
Highway Patrol
Bob Beres
Giles
Beres
Aiken County
David Crutchfield
North Street
New Ellenton
S.C. Highway Patrol
Crutchfield
Raymond Burns
Aiken
Burns
Vet's dream of service and study with SRR program
Aiken resident Travis Leischner, a part time SRR employee at Savannah River Site, benefits from the Vet eran Cooperative Program blending paid STEM and non STEM roles for veterans. A former combat engineer with two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he now pursues an engineering degree at USC Aiken while supporting flood relief efforts in South Carolina and raising two children with guidance from his late father.
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Travis Leischner
Savannah River Remediation
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Savannah River
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Afghanistan
Travis
South Carolina
Broad River Dam
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