Highway project alive in face of funding gaps
Aiken County’s bid for Bobby Jones Expressway funds remains stalled due to lack of matching money. Sen. Tommy Moore uses a transportation bill amendment to keep the county’s grant on the priority list, but future state funds are uncertain. County needs about 30 million for its share and lacks a revenue source. A one cent local option sales tax could raise millions but requires public referendum.
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Aiken County
South Carolina
Tommy Moore
Clearwater
Moore
State Infrastructure Bank
Bobby Jones
Kimberly-Clark to Build 80 Million Secret Wipe Facility
Beech Island plans an 130000 square foot addition at the Old Jackson Highway Kimberly-Clark site to produce a new secret wipe product. Plant manager Jim Taylor says the extra space enables equipment installation and the creation of 100 jobs. applications accepted at the unemployment office.
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Beech Island
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Jackson Highway
Kimberly-Clark
Jim Taylor
Kimberly- Clark
Taylor
Class of Y2K graduates celebrate across local schools
The Class of Y2K received diplomas at Ridge Spring Moneta Wagener Salley and other area ceremonies. Beech Island resident Mary Derman was among SBHS grads as 8 41 p m marked tassel turning at The Bluff. Families cheered as graduates left for paths beyond Myrtle Beach Columbia and beyond.
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Charleston
Columbia
Augusta
Silver Bluff
Ridge Spring
Moneta
Wagener-Salley High Schools
SBHS
Beech Island
Mary Derman
South Carolina closes partisan session delays end of budget
Lawmakers adjourned five months of clashes over the 6 billion budget with the Confederate flag to be removed from the dome on July 1. The session ends as all 170 seats face November elections June 13 primary. Gov Hodges blasts tax cuts while Republicans push groceries sales tax relief and education funding remains central. Bills passed include managed care patient appeals and shielding gun makers from state lawsuits. Deer hunting in fenced areas banned with exemptions for current property owners.
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Columbia
South Carolina
David Wilkins
Greenville
State House
House
Senate
John Drummond
D-Ninety Six
Senate Democrats
Jim Hodges
Mounted Patrol resumes service with Aiken Public Safety
Aiken Department of Public Safety reinstated its Mounted Patrol on Wednesday with Lt. Donald Butler returning to duty riding his horse Kojak. Butler says horseback patrol offers community access and deterrence, with training and collaboration across programs in Mobile Lexington and Dallas shaping their approach.
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Aiken
Butler
Srime
Kojak
Mobile
Ala
Mounted Patrol
Lexington
Dallas Mounted Patrol
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