Graduation listings and ceremonies across area high schools
The Aiken Standard will publish a Saturday edition listing area high school graduates with photos of each school's valedictorian and salutatorian. South Aiken Aiken Midland Valley North Augusta Wagener Valley Silver Bluff hold ceremonies Friday night Ridge Spring Monetta graduation Saturday morning. Strom Thurmond graduation core May 31. Washington AP claims rise to 354,000 last week.
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Aiken Standard
South Aiken
Aiken
Midland Valley
North Augusta
Wagener Valley
Silver Bluff
Ridge Spring Monetta
Strom ‘Thurmond High School
Georgia Lottery Wednesday Drawing Results
Georgia Lottery results list Cash 3 drawing numbers 3 9 2 and Powerball numbers 1 3 19 35 37 with Powerball not specified.
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Cash
SRS Job Picture Brightens After Washington Summit
After years of cuts the Savannah River Site may stabilize and employment could grow in 5 to 7 years if new missions come in. DOE officials and state representatives discussed plans including tritium production and four to five other missions that could lift the workforce to as many as 19,000 by 2002. Tritium production is seen as the strongest future driver for SRS.
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Roddie Burris
Savanah River
Washington
SRS
Department
Inside O Westinghouse award and travel report notes
The item references a Westinghouse award and a travel report involving QWackenhut and QSRS uranium with mentions to Pages 5A and 8A. It reads as a brief catalog line from a newspaper page, lacking clear narrative context.
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Westinghouse
Attack points to major concern at Kennedy Middle
Local school leaders express hope and frustration after a near tragedy at Kennedy Middle School where two eighth graders attacked Principal George Rogers, causing minor injuries to him and several staff and students. Rogers cites lack of information from DSS on transferring fostered students, noting many arrive with few records. The two students, ages 14 and 15, have been in foster care and now face uncertain futures.
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Kennedy Middle School
George Rogers
Rogers
DSS
Department of Social Services
Three Seek Aiken County Real Estate Office Vacancy
Aiken County voters in the Republican primary choose among Judith Warner Carolyn Doolittle and Bill Hartman for the registrar of mesne conveyance the RMC seat. The winner becomes likely successor to Peggy Whitman as the file keeper of deeds mortgages and tax sale properties while county offices earn substantial fees. Warner District 1 council member widow of former council chairman. The post has no current Democratic or Libertarian challenger.
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Carl Langley
Aiken County
Peggy Whitman
Judith Warner
Carolyn Doolittle
Bill Hartman
RMC
Carrol H. Warner
Map Bill Surprises Council
The Aiken County Council faces a $41,000 bill for an aerial mapping survey of the Sage Mill Industrial Park near Graniteville. Chairman Ronnie Young says no authorization existed. the county plans to pay after discussing safeguards with County Administrator William Shepherd.
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Aiken County
Southern Partners Inc
Augusta
New Sage Mill
Graniteville
Aiken
Edgefield
Ronnie Young
William Shepherd
Young
County procurement clues leak on unauthorized obligations
Shepherd warned the council chairman about writing a letter to Fred Humes outlining county procurement rules. The administrator said the county will pay the $15,200 bill for flight and mapping work to avoid a lawsuit, while vowing steps to prevent a recurrence and noting Southern Partners’ Mark Graham and Humes agreed on mapping in a meeting.
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Council
Fred Humes
Aiken
Shepherd
Mark Graham
Southern Partners
Humes
450th To Send 36 To Duty Posts In Bosnia
Thirty six soldiers from the 450th Ordnance Army Reserves Company prepare for active duty in Bosnia. They depart June 12 from Aiken to Fort Dix then Germany to train and join the joint Endeavor mission for about six months, attaching to the 811th Ordnance Company. They will handle munitions, supply and equipment maintenance.
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Bosnia
Nina J. Nndiffer
450Th Ordnance Army Reserves Company
Whiskey Road
Aikken
Elaine McGee
US Army Command Public Affairs Service Office
Atlanta
Germany
Hungary
Steve Stromwall
450Th
Olita Rose
Aiken
Fort Dix
N.J
811Th Ordnance Company
West Virginia
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Aiken Civic Ballet
Hopeland Gardens
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