Hopelands Summer Concert Series Opens in Aiken
The Aiken Community Band launches the Hopelands Summer Concert Series at 7 pm on the Roland H Windham Stage in Hopelands Gardens. The amateur ensemble, led by Col. William Clark, performs at the Whiskey Road Dupree Place park with parking at Rye Patch and Green Boundary Club. Spectators may bring blankets or chairs.
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Hopelands
Roland H. Windham
Hopelands Gardens
Rye Patch
Berrie Road
Green Boundary Club
Whiskey Road
Test of attentiveness in Aiken prompts lighthearted hoax
A playful piece notes a Newberry Street time capsule dedication was interrupted by aliens as a joke. It mirrors May's city trait attentiveness defined as undivided concentration, while contrasting the opposite lapse as distraction and missing details.
NAACP Calls for Veto of SC MLK Holiday Bill
The South Carolina NAACP urges Gov. Hodges to veto a bill that ties Martin Luther King Jr Day to Confederate Memorial Day. Hodges plans a tree-planting ceremony Monday at Rosewood Elementary as the measure faces opposition from civil rights groups and Hodges aides.
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Columbia
Jim Hodges
South Carolina
King
NAACP
Hodges
James Gallman
National Association For the Advancement of Corred People
Morton Brilliant
General Assembly
House
Aiken Students Shine at National History Day
Two local students earned gold medals at the National History Day in South Carolina in Columbia. David Melver of Jackson Middle School won junior gold for South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession, and Katie McNeill of Silver Bluff High won senior gold for Fallen Roses: A Turning Point in American History.
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South Carolina
Columbia
David Melver
Jackson Middle School
Katie McNeill
Silver Bluff High
Aiken Time Capsule Monument Dedicated
The Aiken Time Capsule was officially dedicated Sunday by Mayor Fred Cavanaugh. A granite obelisk on Newberry Street near Richland Avenue marks the capsule site and is to be opened in 2100. inscriptions by USC Aiken professor Jim Farmer accompany the city seal and note life in Aiken in 2000.
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Aiken
Fred Cavanaugh
Newberry Street
Richland Avenue
University of South Carolina
Jim Farmer
Bates Landreth
Farmer
Nursing home Medicaid vacancy dispute in South Carolina
South Carolina faces 308 Medicaid patients on a nursing home waiting list while 437 vacancies exist but go to non Medicaid payers. The Senate finance subcommittee proposes 3 million dollars to add Medicaid patient days, aiming to reduce the backlog as facilities warn they lack permits for more Medicaid residents.
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South Carolina
South Carolina Health Care Association
Senate
Randy Lee
Verne Smith
Greenville
House
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Katie
Jim
Bonnie McNeill
McNeut
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Abby
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