Aiken Standard Leadership and Staff Listings
The Aiken Standard lists its founding in 1867 and details key staff including Publisher Scott B. Hunter, Executive Editor Melissa Hanna, Advertising Director Dee Taylor, and department heads Terri Cheek, Laura Tiedman, Letitia Jefferson, and Ronnie Butler across production, circulation, and classified departments.
Chanel’s Call to Think Aloud Sparks Debate on Individual Courage
A Coco Chanel quote highlights the bold act of thinking for oneself and voicing thoughts aloud. The statement frames personal independence as a defining act of courage across eras.
Paws to Read boosts young readers with therapy dogs
The SPCA Albrecht Center runs Paws to Read with help from Aiken County Public Library and Millbrook Elementary School. Therapy dogs listen as children read aloud in safe, judgment free sessions each Tuesday through July, building confidence and fluency with volunteers.
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Spca Albrecht Center For Animal Welfare
Paws
Aiken County
Childhood wisdom through a columnist's wartime reflections
Leonard Pitts Jr reflecting on a 1995 Montgomery encounter with a 10 year old boy, the Malala Yousafzai UN speech, and how children's directness exposes race, war, and education in America. He asks how to advance rights and end conflicts when grownups struggle with these truths.
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Montgomery
Ala
Michael Browning
South
Big Brother
America
Lala Yousafzai
Taliban
United Nations
New York
Malala
Templeton aims to reform troubled health agency culture
Cindi Ross Scoppe profiles Catherine Templeton as South Carolina Health and Environmental Control director, highlighting her lack of health experience, her drive to overhaul a diffuse bureaucracy, and her handling of a tuberculosis outbreak at Ninety Six Primary School. The piece notes delayed investigations, firings of staff, and upcoming Senate questions on her response.
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Budget and Control Board
Templeton
Greenwood Health Clinic
Columbia
Aiken Standard Seeks Letters to the Editor Guidelines
The paper welcomes signed letters with writer address and daytime phone for verification. Limit under 300 words. longer letters won’t be published. Edits may be made for length libel and taste. Pen names rejected. anonymous letters not published. Publication discretionary. organized campaign letters not published. Address or email provided for submission.
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Scott B. Hunter
Melissa Hanna
Dee Taylor
Terri Cheek
Laura Tiedman
Letitia Jefferson
Ronnie Butler
Coco Chanel
Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts Jr
The
Miami Herald
Pitts
A Wes
Catherine Templeton
S.C. Department of Health
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Ronmental
Cindi Ross Scoppe
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