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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 2003
Page
2
A resident voices worry about the new ABC Cable owner and spokesman, predicting City Council alignment with his proposals. The message questions cable charges, school board cuts, and budget priorities including athletics, suggesting academic decline in South Carolina.
A group led by Senator Nyvery urges termination of TERI alongside a state salary hike for employees. They note teachers received step increases last year, but non-teacher staff did not. Citing Parade Magazine data, they argue wage growth lagged national average and warn that fair pay supports quality work and decency.
A reader urges road improvements in Woodside to ease congestion. Proposes converting the connector into a boulevard or upgrading traffic signals from Bank of America to Pine Log Road. Notes bottlenecks at Grace Berrie and DuPree and requests future planning while preserving history. Call Talkback or email editorial tips.
The City of Aiken launches a city wide litter pickup on Saturday April 5 with 9 neighborhoods and 250 volunteers last year collecting over 300 bags. An organizational meeting March 20 at the Public Works building 245 DuPont Drive invites neighborhood associations and individuals to join. Students from area high schools will participate and the city will provide gloves safety vests trash bags and a cookout after each neighborhood pickup.
Tony and Elizabeth Bradshaw built Bradshaw Consulting Services from a small venture in Akron to a 14‑employee firm delivering GIS solutions. Their ShotSpotter system, now in Charleston and North Charleston, Redwood City, Los Angeles, and Glendale, detects gunfire via sensors and aids police response, reducing gunfire reports by up to 98.5 percent in Redwood City. The firm also markets GeoNotify and Community iMAP, and has earned ESRI awards for 1999 and 2001.
Amy Varallo an eighth grader at Schoherd Middle School earned second place in a regional spelling bee in Augusta on Saturday narrowly missing a trip to the 77th Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington DC. Joe Sheppard of Waynesboro won the event. Amy later joined a MATHCOUNTS team preparing for a state competition in Columbia.
A special committee reviewed prospective biology textbooks and found no grounds to exclude them. The board will hear the committee's conclusions at a Tuesday meeting at 7 p.m. at the district office, while also considering a plan to reduce 2003-04 expenditures amid state cuts.
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