Mercury at SRS sparks public backlash over waste fears
Reader criticizes plans to bring mercury to SRS and blasts increase in toxic waste. The letter condemns the Aiken Standard cartoon about Michael Jackson as disrespectful and hostile to entertainers and threatens not to buy the paper.
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Retirees Hired as Consultants at Savannah River Site Sparks Debate
A reader questions reports that retired workers are being rehired as consultants at Savannah River Site earning 80 to 90 dollars an hour, arguing stimulus funds should return nonretired workers to work and criticizing political blame over job promises and policy.
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Savannah River
Obama
South Carolina
Aiken man charged with prostitution and drug offenses
Gregory Dobbs 25 of Chesterfield Street faces driving under suspension and prostitution after police found him and Avery Snipes Sr. 60 on a dead end Tower Road gravel road. Snipes faces charges of simple marijuana possession possession of drug paraphernalia and open container after a vehicle stop revealed an open beer and a green marijuana substance.
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Gregory Dobbs
Chesterfield Street
Avery H. Snipes Sr
Beaverdam Road
Snipes
Dobbs
Cobbs
McDonald’s
York Street
Summer Splash Party cools Jackson kids at library event
Jackson Branch Library hosted a Summer Splash Party at Thornton Park as part of the Summer Reading Program. The Friends of the Library provided a canvas handprint banner and popsicles while the Jackson Volunteer Fire Department brought a fire truck for a high pressure shower.
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Friends of the Jackson Branch Library
Thornton Park
Friends
Phyllis Boyd
Jackson Volunteer Fire Department
Aiken Standard contact and publication details
The notice provides newsroom phone numbers 644 2401 and staff contacts for Tim O Briant Michael Gibbons Cam Huffman and Scott B Hunter. It lists office hours 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m Monday to Friday and mailing address PO Box 456 Aiken SC 29802 with rate and delivery information and 2008 Sunday Plus dates.
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Aikenstandard
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Aikenstandard.com
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Huffman
Newsroom
Aiken
Aiken Communications Inc
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Local band Studio 316 stages charity concert
Studio 316 leads a Friday benefit concert at Millbrook Baptist Church to aid Golden Harvest Food Bank and Christ Central. Silent Resolution and Elevate Worship Band join. doors open 5 30 p m with 7 admission for a food item and 10 without.
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Golden Harvest Food Bank
Christ Central
Graniteville
Silent Resolution
Millbrook Baptist Church
Lenwood Morris
Eric Harte
Brian Rider
Ken Gabriel
Eric Dyer
Sam Morris
Benjamin Pruett
Aiken's Gentleness Tagged for Month Along With Lottery Draws
The column notes Aiken's July character trait as Gentleness while listing Wednesday lottery results across multiple games. It includes Pick 3 and Pick 4 midday and evening numbers, Palmetto Cash 5, Powerball and Powerplay, Cash 3 and 4, Fantasy 5, Win For Life, plus a Free Ball.
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Aiken
Cash
Fantasy
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