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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 2003
Page
11
State officials urge unified action to close the achievement gap affecting white affluent students and poorer black students. Leaders call for more funding, community involvement, and 2004 legislative action to reverse 2003 cuts, stressing educator and parent engagement to raise all students’ learning outcomes.
The Beaufort Gazette reports Gov. Mark Sanford signed a new law improving oversight at the Department of Commerce. Secretary Bob Faith announces a major reorganization cutting staff about 25 percent to 97 and reducing spending by one third from 2001 levels.
Aiken Standard lists staff positions including publisher Scott B. Hunter editor Jeffrey B. Wallace Arthur T. Zappa and others. The page names business manager Ellen C. Priest managing editor Timothy E. O Briant production director Phillip Yates circulation director Scot Newcom and more.
The author reveals a yearly vacation tradition to Edisto Beach with family. They describe the week as brief and blissful, contrasting Edisto with Folly Beach near Charleston, noting familiar spots like Piggly Wiggly and Bell Buoy. The piece ends with plans to depart and asks readers to keep Aiken going in their absence.
A letter from the Aiken SPCA chair emphasizes that pet overpopulation requires communitywide effort. He notes humane groups and county animal control work hard with limited resources, urges licenses and spay neuter, cites 113 adoptions last month, and describes shelter at Wire Road with a 65 dollar fee and two months of free health insurance.
The Aiken Standard invites Letters to the Editor addressed to Letters to the Editor, Aiken Standard, P.O. Box 456, Aiken SC 29802. Email swallace aikenstandard.com and fax 803-648-6052 for submissions.
An unnamed senior official criticizes US civilian leadership in Iraq for lack of planning and interagency coordination under ORHA and the Coalition Provisional Authority. He notes security comms gaps, lavish early quarters, and strained civilian military relations, while praising oil ministry reforms and veteran sergeant majors aiding the new Iraqi army. A Wharton graduate project to deploy self-contained Community Center modules is planned for testing this month.
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