Dreams of Fields exhibit plans first Arnold Gallery show
The Arnold Gallery announces the Dreams of Fields exhibit featuring Jill Stafford Ingrid Hofer and Mary Alice Lockhart with a reception Friday from 6 9 pm. The show runs through May 29. Contact Trish Arnold at 803 502 1100 for more information. The Aiken County Elections office opens Saturday 9 am to noon for June 9 primary registration or changes at 736 Richland Ave W.
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Arnold Gallery
Jill Stafford
Augusta
Ingrid Hofer
Savannah Lakes
Aiken
Mary Alice Lockhart
Trish Arnold
Aiken County
Police blotter reports multiple vehicle and drug incidents
A burgundy Huffy Roadmaster bike was stolen from Bershaw Street NE with a white male long hair suspect seen leaving. A 1993 maroon Oldsmobile parked at Advanced Auto York Street contained a bag of marijuana. a 27 year old man was arrested for marijuana with intent to distribute and cocaine possession with intent to distribute. An Edgewater Florida man, 36, arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle after a Hitchcock Parkway speeding stop revealing a stolen Daytona Beach car. A 1995 Jeep Cherokee stolen from Sprawls Sound York Street.
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Bershaw Street
Advanced Auto
York Street
Edgewater
Florida
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Hitchcock Parkway
Daytona Beach
Sprawls Sound
Converse College Alumnae Leader from Aiken Named President Elect
Vicky Van Meyer, a 1971 Converse College graduate, is named president elect of the Converse College Alumnae Association. She teaches at Mead Hall and volunteers with the Aiken High Booster Club and the altar guild at St Thaddeus Episcopal Church.
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Converse College
Aiken
Vicky van Meyer
Spartanburg Women's School
Mead Hall
Aiken High Booster Club
Altar Guild
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Correction Notice On Kids Count Statistics Error
A Wednesday correction states the accurate figures for low birth weight are 9.3 percent for South Carolina and 73 percent nationally not infant mortality rates. The Aiken Standard regrets the mismatch and provides corrected data.
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South Carolina
Aiken Standard
Flag poles rising at Aiken County Veterans Park site
Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park gains momentum as four Arkansas crews install a 60 foot flagpole and six 30 foot poles for military flags plus a POW MIA flag on Richland Avenue East near the agricultural building. A dedication ceremony is planned for May 16 at 10 a.m. and fund efforts seek $85,000 to complete the project with brick sales helping finance the rest.
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Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park
Richland Avenue
Arkansas
Aiken County
Ed Hamnons
Rais
Compassion ensures proper burial for homeless veteran
Roscoe Sams, a 1949 to 1946 Army veteran, died homeless in May 1997 and was turned over to Aiken County Coroner Sue Townsend. Townsend arranged a proper burial by contacting Stephen D. Posey Funeral Home. Wednesday evening the Aiken County Veterans Council honored two local citizens for their efforts.
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Roscoe Sams
Aiken County
Stephen D. Posey Funeral Home
Compassion
Aiken Chamber Office Showcases City History and Vision
The new Aiken Chamber of Commerce building, at Richland Avenue and Chesterfield Street downtown, will open later and aims to reflect Aiken’s story. Architect McDonald Law notes a railroad car shape dividing visitors center, meeting area, and offices, with banners and icons highlighting dining, housing, arts, education, and more.
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Ginny Southworth McDonald Law
Chamber
June Murf
Kathy Butler
Aiken
McDonald Law
Butler and Butler Marketing
McDonald’s
Rose Hill College founders deny salary contracts in suit
Rose Hill College founder Owen Jones and his wife Julie answered a March lawsuit by denying they signed contracts obligating themselves to pay salaries to Dr. Donald W. Fausett and Rev. Father Peter Leigh. The couple admitted the two men had contracts with Rose Hill College but said no agreement for full promised salaries was worked out.
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Rose Hill College
Owen Jones
Julie
Donald W. Fausett
Peter Leigh
Aiken
Fausett
Leigh
Jones
USCA Spring Commencement Honors First Industrial Mathematics Graduate
About 300 degree candidates will participate in the University of South Carolina Aiken spring commencement today at 7pm in the Student Activities Center. Amber R Hollowell will serve as senior speaker, graduating magna cum laude with a BS in industrial mathematics, the first to complete the major. SKF USA executive Thomas C Johnstone will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Business Administration.
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University of South Carolina Aiken
Amber R. Hollowell
USCA
Thomas C. Johnstone
Automotive Division
SKF USA
Johnstone
Sweden
USC Aiken Leader in Bearing Manufacturing Highlighted
A world leader in rolling bearings manufacturing oversees marketing sales engineering and manufacturing across Europe North America Brazil and Asia. Honorary doctorates will be awarded to local authors Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh who wrote 16 books including Jackson Pollock An American Saga which won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for biography and was a National Book Award finalist.
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Europe
North America
Brazil
Asia
Gregory White Smith
Steven Naifeh
Smith
Naifeh
Reginald Simmons Named Assistant City Judge in Aiken
Aiken attorney Reginald D. Simmons accepts the post as assistant municipal court judge reporting to Charles E. Simons III. He will preside in Simons absence and brings a noted career including representation of James Brown. Simmons, 40, is a graduate of Erskine Theological Seminary and founder of Universal Ministries. He and wife Danielle are parents to Brantley, Alexandra, and Victoria and will begin next month.
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Aiken
Reginald D. Simmons
Simmons
Charles E. Simons III
Simons
Reginald
American University
D.C
James Brown
Erskine Theological Seminary
S.C
Universal Ministries Christian Fellowship
Augusta
Danielle
Simmons Ra
Brantley
Alexandra
Victo
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