Ellenton mayor not seeking re election in April vote
Mayor Wallace T Brock will not run in the April general election. Peggy Whitman, widow of the late Mayor H Eugene Whitman, was chosen as the Republican candidate for mayor. Council members up for election are Jesse S Cook Pliny H Shropshire and Joe K Black. Homer K Stanley is the water commissioner candidate.
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New Ellenton
Wallace T. Brock
Republican Party
Peggy Whitman
H. Eugene Whitman
Jesse S. Cook
Pliny H. Shropshire
Joe K. Black
Homer K. Stanley
Water Commeioner
Downtown store to close after 35 years in Aiken
Polk-Griffin whose Laurens Street appliance operation dates to 35 years ago will close that location and move the tire business to Whiskey Road. A close-out sale starts today as the Laurens Street building at 126 Laurens St. N.W. may be sub leased with no prospects yet.
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Polk-Griffin
Laurens Street
Aiken
Phil Polk
Whiskey Road
Griffin
County Republicans To Convene Tonight
Aiken County Republicans meet at Midland Valley High School at 7 p.m. for their annual convention. Officers and delegates to district and state conventions will be chosen. The keynote speaker is Tom Hartnett, candidate for lieutenant governor.
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Aiken County
Midland Valley High School
Greenwood
Columbia
Tom Hartnett
County Schools Schedule In Service Day Across District
Aiken County schools plan a districtwide in service day with teachers present and students absent tomorrow. Morning and afternoon sessions occur in North Augusta area schools with 40 training programs in the morning and 11 general sessions in the afternoon as part of the Education Improvement Act training days.
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Aiken County
North Augusta
Burglary Reported at Kershaw Street Home
Aiken Public Safety investigates a burglary at a Kershaw Street residence between 11 p.m. and 12 15 a m. Earlean Bush says a bathroom window was broken to enter. A $300 RCA 19 inch color TV and a $69 RCA 12 inch black and white TV, both with AA etched on sides, were missing.
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Aiken Department of Public Safety
Kershaw Street
Earlean Bush
RCA
Rotary humor and rescue tale headlined in Aiken notes
Aiken Rotary Club president Lowman Tyler contributed a quip about aging and sin as Randy Davidson spoke on his behalf. In Quail Hollow a 3-year-old Holly Ross locked herself and her mother in a second story bedroom until the 7-year-old rescued them after hours on the roof. Jim Davis opened his Graniteville Exchange Club talk with a quip about mistaking the audience for ministers from the Aiken Ministerial Association.
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Aiken Rotary Club
Lowman Tyler
Randy Davidson
Tyler
Holly Ross
Quail Hollow
Jim Davis
Graniteville Exchange Club
Aiken Ministerial Association
Aiken County Drills Nuclear Emergency With Vogtle Test
Aiken County joined a nuclear emergency drill tied to Georgia's Vogtle plant. Officials from county and state agencies, Red Cross and Salvation Army simulated outages and evacuee shelters under a 10 mile emergency zone with no actual radioactivity release.
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Aiken County
Stanley Roberson
Georgia
Vogtle
Roberson
Aiken
Allendale
Barnwell
American Red Cross
The
Salvation Army
Bobby Mauney
Willard Smith
Georgia Power Plant
Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Smith
Graniteville
Sheriff's Department
Kirk Martin
Augusta man acquitted in armed robbery case
Aiken County jury found Charles H. Kelly Jr. not guilty of robbing Personal Reflections, a North Augusta salon, after defense alibi testimony and eyewitness descriptions of the robber, who was described as a tall, heavyset left-handed black man with glasses. The trial highlighted identification issues and timing discrepancies.
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Augusta
South Carolina
Aiken County
General Sessions
Charles H. Kelly Jr
Sandy Wiggins
Kelly
North Augusta
Barry Johnson
Bill Weeks
Robert J. Harte
Debra Tingen
Brenda DeLaughter
Cindy Kitchens
Ms. Kitchens
Ms. Tingen
Ms. DeLaughter
Savannah River
Augusta hairdresser sentenced for DUI with restitution
Robert R. Valentine, 21, was sentenced in Aiken County General Sessions Court to 91 days in jail and 32,000 dollars restitution after pleading guilty to felony DUI. He must pay 8,000 to Andrews and 24,000 to Wolf in 60 monthly installments if insurance pays nothing, with five years probation and required Alcohol Safety and Abuse Program completion.
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Augusta
Aiken County
Robert R. Valentine
Robert J. Harte
Valentine
Tyrone Wolf
Savannah River
North Augusta
Harte
Lewis Felix Andrews
Wolf
Rodney A. Peeples
Andrews
Robert Childs
Peeples
Windsor Post Office Site Fight Moves to Council Hearing
Windsor residents and officials seek a new Lower Savannah Council of Governments hearing on the proposed Windsor post office site after a Feb 13 vote condemned it as unsafe. Mayor Mizell and Councilwoman Hatcher clash over site safety, bid history, and potential political motives as the state review process continues.
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Windsor
Lower Savannah
Frank Mizell
COG
Eric Thompson
Governor’s Office of Intergovernmental Review
State Clearinghouse
Council of Governments
Aiken County
Fay Hatcher
U.S. 78
Middleton Drive
Mizell
Hatcher
Linda
Roger Nunn
Thompson
Francess Nunn
Jackson Mayor Faces Petition Over Business Tax Plan
An ordinance to raise business taxes in Jackson received first reading on Feb 27. A 76 merchant petition will be delivered to Mayor Hoyt B. Dunfieth amid protests at First Citizens Bank. The plan, drafted by Governmental Consultants Inc., would modify eight tax categories with mixed increases and decreases.
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Jackson
First Citizens
Hoyt B. Dunfieth
Ali Bring
Lower Savannah
Governmental Consultants Inc. of
Columbia
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Weeks
Dwayne Strickland
Raymond E
Gene) Staulcup
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Rogers
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