Record-setting June and July rainfall pace continues in Augusta area
July through Sunday brought 1.79 inches at Augusta Regional Airport with an additional .02 by 1 p.m. The June total reached 10.83 inches, the wettest on record, surpassing 2004’s 10.59 inches. Aiken County saw 12.29 to 15.61 inches in June and 2.21 to 4.17 inches in July as meteorologists note a stagnant pattern and Bermuda high pressure offshore.
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Bush Field
National Weather Service
Columbia
Augusta
Aiken County
National Weather Service Cooperative Observers
North Augusta
Aiken
Williston
Leonard Vaughan
Sally Sampson Area Deaths and Funerals
Sally Sampson is listed among area deaths with funeral notices published in the 6A section. The notice provides basic details on services and burial arrangements for local readers.
Inmates labor program reshapes county work crews
Inmates at the South Carolina Lower Savannah Pre-Release Center join khaki clad labor crews for city and county work. They rake leaves mow lawns and clean offices as part of a rehabilitative program with local contractors. The plan moves riders toward Level I facilities and paid community work, with certain inmates earning wages through employers.
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S.C. Department of Corrections
Lower Savannah
McCall
Department of Corrections
Teddy Kulmala
Aiken County
Hitchcock memorabilia auction opens rare Aiken horse history
A 150 item collection from Pete Green, Thor oughbred trainer for Thomas Hitchcock Sr., is offered as one lot in the Living Estate of Dan Iverson and auctioned July 13 at 12 p.m. by Cheeks Auction Company. Green rode and managed horses at Broad Hollow Stable from 1894, leaving a narrative archive of turn of the century life in Aiken with more than 100 photographs. If the reserve is not met the items may be sold piece by piece to the highest bidder.
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Aiken
Pete Green
Thomas Hitchcock Sr
Dan Iverson
Cheeks Auction Company
Peter Green
Broad Hollow
Green
Hitchcock
Celestine
New York
Washington, D.C
Florida
Dennis Cheeks
Cheeks
Iverson
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