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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 2001
Page
1
President Bush travels to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin in a high profile first encounter. Bush aims to look Putin in the eye and build personal trust while Putin expresses a positive mood and hope for advancing world security.
A fist sized Mars meteorite, one of 18 known Earth rocks from Mars, was found by Swiss scientists in the Oman desert. The discovery may help determine whether Mars ever sustained life and adds a key extraterrestrial sample to study.
North Augusta deaths include Thomas F. Carr Ruth R. Gillispie Valencia D. Jackson Aiken Anna B. Lee Edgefield and Edward M. Zier Jr. filed in the obituary notices section 6A detailing passing and brief biographical notes.
The University of South Carolina Aiken plans a 9.9 percent tuition increase, adding about 170 dollars per semester for in state students if the full board approves on June 22. USCA cites a 10 percent state education cut and budget actions as the driver of higher costs.
Aiken County Sheriff Howard Sellers seeks county funds to establish a drug laboratory to aid rapid analysis of drug related items. The lab would relieve burden on state facilities by hiring a chemist to identify substances before court use.
Judge James R. Barber III said he would consider a reduced sentence plea from Lawrence J. Perea II, 19, who was sentenced to 21 years for a 2000 sexual assault in Aiken. The court expects a ruling next week after a brief hearing in criminal court.
Six casks of spent nuclear fuel from foreign research reactors will be stored at the Savannah River Site at month end. Nine casks arrive from Europe with six sent to SRS and three to Idaho. The shipment is the 20th under a U.S. nonproliferation program and is monitored by satellite tracking under DOT and NRC rules.
The National Audubon Society plans a regional education center at Silver Bluff Center near Jackson, with school children someday visiting the graveyard where Eliza Collick and others are buried. Sanctuary manager Dan Connelly notes the graveyard was learned about years ago as part of the 3,154 acre preserve acquired in 1975 from the estate of Lee Plans.
South Carolina Education Department warns it will run out of money to repair and fuel its 5000 bus fleet by March 2002. Inez Tenenbaum cites failed state funding for repairs and fuel, aging buses, and a pending 30 million bond bill that stalled in the Senate.
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