Prices to affect holiday travel
Midwest drivers face high gasoline prices with Chicago area residents like Joyce LeFlore paying premium grades at $2.35 a gallon. AAA projects 37.5 million people will travel 100 miles or more over the holiday weekend, 32 million by car, with Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin contributing many travelers despite higher prices.
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Joyce LeFlore
LeFlore
Mid‘west
Indiana
American Automobile Association
AAA
Janie Graziani
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Jerry Pagel
Wausau
Lake Nokomis
Pagel
Graziani
Citadel cadets to lower flag from State House
Citadel cadets will lower the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s State House and hand it to museum representatives. A Palmetto Battalion color guard will raise a new 30 foot flag pole later this week as lawmakers move to remove flags from the dome and internal chambers.
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Columbia
Citadel
South Carolina
Palmetto Battalion
House
Senate
Plans proceed for new city well in drought hit Aiken
The city of Aiken advances plans for a 1 million gallon per day well on the south side, to come online in spring 2001, part of a strategy to keep supply above demand amid a severe drought. Bids open soon for the Tuscaloosa Aquifer project near Town Creek Road and Silver Bluff Road, with future wells planned annually.
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Gow. Hodge
Carlina
Aiken County
Aiken
Mason's Branch
Hidden Haven
Town Creek Road
Silver Bluff Road
Tuscaloosa
Tennessee
Public Works
Larry Morris
Morris
Deaths and Funerals Notices
Annette Milhouse Jones Fayette NC Fulmer's Funeral Home Alma Pyle Aiken George Funeral Homes Downtown Dorothy McGee Stoudmayer Ridge Spring Cumbee-Palmer Funeral Home Arthur Verenes Aiken George Funeral Homes Downtown
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Annette Milhouse Jones
Fayette
N.C
Fulmer
Aiken County School Budget Approved With Tax Hike
The Aiken County school board unanimously approved a 2000 2001 budget totaling 182 890 412 and planned a 4.7 mill tax increase. A homeowner at 575 000 would pay about 14.10 more and a 100 000 home about 18.80 more annually. The plan funds raises and new hires, with 56 percent from state sources, 37 percent local, and 7 percent federal. Salary schedules include a 0.46 percent raise in local supplements.
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Aiken County
Brock Heron
Jack Hunter
Hunter
John Bradley
Brent Rankin
Tom Goforth
Larry Murphy
Inease Williamson
Andrew Yaun
Art Hadden
Rosemary English
Aiken County budget funds raises and new hires for 2000 01
The 2000 01 School Board Budget proposes a 4.6 percent salary raise across all schedules, step increases for Bible employees, and additional teachers at each high school. It includes hiring a distance education teacher and a certified technology trainer, four more teachers at North Aiken Elementary for a pilot program, a 5750 supplement for distance education instructors, and $25 000 for the Aiken County Career Center to launch a home building initiative while area council members receive $19 more per meeting. The plan also pushes to bring high school supplements to the state average over four years.
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North Aiken
Aiken County
Lineman Charles Rushton Keeps Aiken Area Powered And Safe
Charles Rushton, 17 years in the powerline field and two years as line department supervisor for Aiken Electric Cooperative, oversees 24 hour on call work. He emphasizes safety, Nomex uniforms, knowledge of underground utilities, and busy May to October with mobile home connections and new housing in Woodside and Creek. He notes storms lessen workload this summer but new connects keep crews busy and calls include snakes or squirrels entering substations.
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Charles Rushton
Aiken Electric Cooperative
Rushton
Aiken Electric Co-Op
Woodside
Creek
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