Equitrekking Wins Second Consecutive NATJA Travel Award
Travel series Equitrekking earned Best Travel Broadcast for the second year in the NATJA Awards. Host and producer Darley Newman, a South Carolina native, says the repeat win shows team strength and growing production skill while highlighting on horseback journeys to offbeat destinations.
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Travel Journalists Association
Equitrekking
Darley Newman
South Carolina
Public Broadcasting System
Newman
Millbrook students shine at school science fair
Elora Sanders won first among Millbrook fourth graders at Millbrook Elementary School science fair last week and Aston Mustion claimed first in fifth grade. Winners advance to regional contests March 13. Fourth grader Allie Gibbons placed second, Logan Gibbons third, and other fifth graders earned top finishes. Teachers plan to expand the fair, guiding students to pick topics, journal observations, and present formal reports.
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Elora Sanders
Millbrook
Tammy Travis
Agnes Hopson
Nonica Livingston
Travis
Aston Mustion
Elora
Emily Metzger
Secore
Fyter Schroeder
Kayla Rikard
Emory Lewis
Emma Loftus
Mitchell Myers
Allie Gibbons
Logan Gibbons
Hopson
Rob Novit
Elora Yochum
Emily Mitzger
Unopposed Mayor H Odell Weeks Seeks Reelection in Aiken
Weeks, 25 years in office and a Democrat, runs unopposed as mayor of Aiken. He has guided growth since the atomic energy plant arrived, oversaw housing code enforcement, the airport industrial park, new storm drainage, and a recreation center named for him. He chairs civic groups, serves in Masons, Lions, and churches, and has a real estate and insurance business with Lyon, Croft Weeks and Hunter since 1951. He and his wife have three children and six grandchildren.
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H. Odell Weeks
Weeks
Hopelands
Aiken
Aiken Airport
S.C. Municipal Association
National League of Cities
Lions Club
First Baptist Church
Aiken Businessmen’s Club
Lyon
Croft Weeks
Hunter
Clemson University
Ex SRS worker returns to site under ARRA funding
Jamie Bing of New Ellenton 33 returned to Savannah River Site under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act after a layoff in 2008. ARRA funded 1.6 billion dollars for SRS projects, creating and retaining jobs and accelerating environmental cleanup reducing the site footprint by more than half.
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Jamie Bing
New Ellenton
Bing
Savannah River
SRS
Shorty
Congress
U.S. Department of E
ARRA
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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