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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 2015
Page
1
Aiken County adopts a $62.7 million 2015 16 budget set to take effect July 1 after a unanimous County Council vote. The panel trimmed about $1 million from the general fund to avoid millage increases while seeking more revenue reserves and approving near 22 000 for a Treasurer'sOffice position.
Orchids Paper Products Corp holds groundbreaking for a Barnwell integrated tissue plant in Airport Industrial Park. The project aims to start in early 2016 with capacity for 35 40 thousand tons of paper and 30 32 thousand tons of converting per year at a cost of 110 125 million dollars. About 134 jobs are expected, with training in technical and high performance work.
The area notes the deaths of Carson Devine Culbreath Johnston Douglas E. Treadway and Gloria Myers with services arranged by Deaths and Funerals 6A. Also listed are Lt. Col. Richard A. Charles of Columbia and Douglas MacArthur Mundy of Crawfordville.
A five day forecast calls for scattered storms and hot afternoons with a peak near 96 degrees. Overnight lows around 76 degrees. Turning humid later in the week as a weather front lingers. Rapid shower chances remain in the forecast across the period.
Staff report that Aiken Public Safety firefighters responded to a house fire on Hammonds Road Tuesday evening. The call came in at 6:42 p.m. No injuries were reported and all residents got out safely. Cause under investigation. extent of damage unknown.
A two vehicle crash in Wagener Tuesday night killed Elgin man Terry A. Pogue, 39, with identification noted as the deceased. The report notes the death is considered presumptively identified and refers readers to FATAL, Page 14A for more details.
In Columbia hundreds gathered in the heat to demand the removal of the Confederate battle flag from outside the Statehouse as lawmakers opened a special budget session and agreed to debate flag removal after budget approval. Gov. Nikki Haley called for the flag to come down amid the Emanuel AME Church attack, signaling a shift on a long defended symbol. Haley framed the attack as driving political change and noted it does not reflect the people of the state as she backed the debate.
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