Zoning Commission Denies Second Neighborhood Business Rezoning Request
The Aiken Planning and Zoning Commission again denied a bid to reclassify residential property as neighborhood business facing Park Avenue. Owners Davis and Dixon sought rezoning for their shops but agreed to continue under a prior variance. The commission also debated Palmetto Service Corp annexation and approved a boarding home for adults amid zoning questions.
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Aiken Planning and Zoning Commission
Faye Davis
Pumpkin Seed Antiques
Debbie Dixon
Davis Strip Base
Park Avenue
Davis
Park Ave
Marion
Horry
Virgina Jackson
Colleton Ave
Commission
Dixon
Henry Summerall
Frank Alexander
Joe Busby
Palmetto Service Corp
Briarcliff
Pinelog
Coalition
Assist
Abused Persons Inc
Central Business District
Planning Commission
Laurens St
Civil War munitions found by river divers near Augusta
Gary Herde and partners Hugh and Diane Jenkins recovered 130 rare Confederate hand grenades from the Savannah River using a submersible detector. They also found 12 pound round shot and a Confederate rocket. The Augusta museum holds 40 percent of proceeds. divers face occasional claim-jumpers. The group wonders why shells lie near Augusta with Sherman’s advance, suggesting postwar disposal.
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Savannah
Gary Herde
Kiwanis Club
Herde
Hugh
Diane Jenkins
Augusta
Jenkinses
Hugh Jenkins
Jenkins
George Washington Rains
Augusta Powder Works
Tennessee
Augusta-Richmond County
Alabama
Sherman
Bob Moldenhauer
Buzz Rich
Aiken Council to Hear Bid on New Backhoe
The Aiken City Council meets Monday at 7 30 p m in the Municipal Building 214 Park Ave S W for a brief session to accept bids on a new backhoe. A week of General Sessions court opens Monday at 10 a m at the County Courthouse.
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Aiken
Park Ave
S.W
General Sessions
Not Irish Ballad Authoring Virginian Thomas Paine Westendorf
"I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" is attributed to Irish origins but was written by Virginian Thomas Paine Westendorf for his wife Jennie. The poem became a popular ballad, linked to Irish sentiment though penned by an American author.
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Kathleen
Thomas Paine Westendorf
Jennie
Aiken County Mezzo Soprano To Sing Monday
Mary Henderson and Felicia House perform Monday at 7 p.m. in Hopeland Gardens Dupree Place off Whiskey Road with Gary Stegall on piano. Henderson a Columbia native with a Master of Music from the University of Rochester, studied in Cologne and sang in a Hagen company for six years. If rain, concert moves to First Baptist Church York Street.
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Mary Henderson
Gary Stegall
Felicia House
Hopeland Gardens
Dupree Place
Whiskey Road
Ms. Henderson
Columbia
University of Rochester
New York
Cologne
Germany
Hagen
Anata
Stegall
California
Charleston
Columbia College
First Baptist Church
York Street
Army Band Jazz Ensemble to Perform at Hopeland Gardens
The 246 Army Band and Jazz Ensemble of the South Carolina National Guard will perform at Hopeland Gardens Tuesday at 7 p.m. under Chief Warrant Officer Charles P. Pruitt. The program features music by Glenn Miller Marvin Hamlish Wagner and Brahms with no admission charge.
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Army Band
South Carolina National Guard
Hopeland Gardens
Charles P. Pruitt
Glenn Miller
Marvin Hamlish
Wagner
Brahms
Talk On Aging Planned In Aiken Enrichment Program
Barbara Butler of the Aiken-Barnwell Mental Health Center will speak on "The Golden Years: Aging" Monday evening as part of the city of Aiken's Martin Hill Enrichment Program. The program will be held at 6 30 at the Smith Hazel Recreation Center 400 Kershaw St.
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Barbara Butler
Aiken-Barnwell Mental Health Center
City of Aiken
Martin Hill
Smith-Hazel Recreation Center
Kershaw St
Belvedere Water District Announces Monday Meetings
Belvedere Water and Sewer District commissioners schedule workshop discussions every Monday at 7 30 p m in the district office 327 Edgefield Ave Belvedere The public is invited to attend
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Belvedere
Indecent Exposure Reported Around Weeks Center
Aiken reported two new indecent exposure incidents near the H Odell Weeks Center with a white male suspect. One jogger saw a man with a paper bag over his face, the other involved a driver in a white Chevette exposing himself. Earlier incidents near the Weeks Center occurred May 22 23 and June 2.
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H. Odell Weeks Center
Aiken
Weeks Center
Aiken Department of Public Safety
J.B. White
Whiskey Road
Triplex Site Plan Approved in North Augusta
The North Augusta Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site plan for a three unit triplex in a single building on Georgia Avenue. P&Z Director Wayne Rogers stated the project features three one bedroom units.
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North Augusta
Georgia Avenue
P&z
Wayne Rogers
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Medicare
Madicara
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Department OF Insurance
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Henderson
Water District
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