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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 2003
Page
2
Readers vent over road work while praising progress and blaming high costs for students. Columns defend frank talk on race and religion as truth. Local concerns include USC Aiken book prices and rising summer session costs. Traffic safety fears grow with extended alcohol sale hours.
A reader questions the Talkback process, asking how letters are chosen, noting prior contributions they viewed as relevant yet not published. The inquiry implies concern about selection criteria and consistency.
A public safety note stressing that seatbelts and car seats save lives, backed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It cites paramedics and advocates booster seats for children under 80 pounds, urging correct child restraint use and referencing official safety resources.
Reader criticizes store management for alleged flirtation by a manager with employees, urging policy review to prevent customer loss. A separate note praises a sheriff but cites inaccessible contact about local drug issues. Readers advised to send concise letters to Aiken Standard with edits for space.
Authorities linked a training explosive device left at Aiken Public Safety to a woman who found it in her son's belongings in Detroit. The incident caused evacuations and dispatch relocations for about 90 minutes while SLED and the Sheriff's Office investigated. No charges were filed, and investigators plan a face to face meeting with the woman after telephone contact.
Genesis Group analysts hired by the City of Aiken monitor East Gate Drive traffic at the malls to inform a roundabout plan between Publix and the Aiken Mall. City leaders expect a final design by summer with construction by year end.
Ecologist Dr Donny Adriano of Savannah River Ecology Laboratory with Austrian colleague Prof Walter Wenzel refined phytoextraction by embedding plants in a geomat sandwiched mat. The system transfers pollutants to leaves then through fabric to a clay layer, trapping metals for 30 75 years before landfill disposal, enabling year after year soil cleanup. They hold an Austrian patent and seek US approval, two years or more away.
Barrett will speak after a 10 am tour of the Palmetto Parkway extension in Aiken County with Rep. Ernest Istook and Rep. Jim DeMint. The visit aims to share the area's development vision as local leaders seek funding for the second phase from US 1 to 1.20.
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