Aiken City moves to rezone Silver Bluff and Cardinal Drive
The Aiken City Council will second read an ordinance to rezone residential areas at Silver Bluff Road and Cardinal Drive to neighborhood business affecting 5.5 acres at the northeast intersection and 66 acres north of Cardinal Drive. A NPR site request and bids for water works materials and a logging recorder will also be considered. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building council chambers.
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Silver Bluff Road
Cardinal Drive
Aiken
Congress
NPR
Savannah River
Aiken City
Park Avenue
Cable topics drive South Carolina council meetings
North Augusta City Council and New Ellenton City Council hold 7 pm sessions to discuss cable construction mosquito control and safety issues. Wooded drive cable extensions are underway in New Ellenton with bids on a new safe and mosquito control. Valley Public Service Authority meets at Horse Creek plant to accept bids for Old Aiken Road water project valued around 40000 dollars after a 25000 dollar Rural Improvement Grant and to review water service requests. An executive session will consider a territorial dispute contract with North Augusta.
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North Augusta
Buena Vista Ave
Savannah River
Polo Branch
Southwest
New Ellenton
Main Street
Woodland Drive
Bill McCall
Beth Ellis
The
Valley Public Service Authority
Horse Creek
Aiken Road
WPSA
Mixon Construction Co
Howlandville Road
Aiken Planning Commission to weigh rezonings and new Centre South
The commission will consider Harriet Delancey rezoning 16 acres east of Rhone Drive between Dibble Road and the railroad line from single family to estate residential to allow three horses. Wyatt Development seeks approval for the Centre South Shopping Center on land west of Silver Bluff, between Pine Log and Town Creek Church Roads, plus its landscape and development plans. Meeting at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Municipal Building council chambers.
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Dibble Road
Aiken
Aiken Planning and Zoning Commission
Harriet Delancey
Rhone Drive
Hitchcock Woods
Wyatt Development Company
Silver Bluff Road
Pine Log
Town Creek Church Roads
Centre South
City Council
Park Avenue
Aiken County Council Discusses Fire Service And Garbage
The upcoming work session will focus on budget issues including revenue sharing funding for volunteer fire departments and garbage collection. A USC salary study delay is noted, with a May 21 review target. Executive session may address the Cleveland Anderson Coursey & Denning contract.
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Aiken
Barnes
S.C. General Assembly
Aiken County Board Set to Tackle Policy And School Moves
The Aiken County Board of Education meets at Educational Center to vote on a class ranking policy revision adding quality points, relocating five special education classes, revising student conduct codes, and reviewing bids for school additions. Also on the agenda STEP program funding, Kennedy Middle School air conditioning wiring, and gym floor refinishing at North Augusta High.
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Aiken County
Bath Special School
Jefferson Elementary
Hammond Hill
Aiken Elementary
Kennedy Middle School
Byrd and Belvedere
Leavelle McCampbell
North Augusta High School
Jackson Town Council Eyes SRP Support and Tax Pact
Jackson Town Council will meet at 7 at Town Hall to back a Savannah River Plant production reactor, review phone service needs, discuss a possible sewage treatment facility, and give first reading to a real estate tax collection agreement with Aiken County and a property transfer pact for the old Jackson Elementary School.
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Jackson
Charles St
Savannah River
SRP
Department of Energy
Continental Telephone Company
South Carolina
Zimmerman
Evans
Leopold
Aiken County
Confederate Memorial Day Observed in Aiken Ceremony
Aiken South Carolina gathers at First Baptist Church for Confederate Memorial Day honoring fallen soldiers. General Joe Wheeler camp No 1245 sponsors with Rev. Mark Hasty delivering invocation. Jerry Norton USC-Aiken registrar and history professor gives keynote on Civil War lessons. Music by Catherine Scott and a Taps salute mark the event. The service marks the eighth observance since 1979.
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First Baptist Church of
Jerry Norton
Usc-Aiken
Georgia Avenue Widening Project Gets 3.2 Million Approval
The U S Department of Transportation approves a 3.2 million plan by South Carolina to widen Georgia Avenue in North Augusta from the 13th Street Bridge to Buena Vista Avenue. The two lane road will become four lanes with a median left turn. Work to be coordinated with Georgia DOT with no concrete start date yet.
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U.S. Department of Transportation
S.C. Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Georgia Avenue
North Augusta
Georia Ave
U.S. 25 F
13Th Street
Buena Vista Avenue
Georgia Department of Transportation
Cole Page
Aiken County
Aiken Public Works Week Observance Promotes Civic Tours
The Aiken City Council will sign a proclamation designating May 17 to 23 as National Public Works Week. Tours of the public works center and water treatment plant are offered throughout the week with an open house at week’s end. Mayor H Odell Weeks urges residents to become informed about services from water and sewer systems to sanitation and vehicle maintenance.
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Aiken
National Public Works
Public Works
Public Works Center
Aiken’s
Public Works Department
H. Odell Weeks
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North Augusta Council
VPSA
P&z
Council
South Carolina Association of Counties
Robert M. Bell
Judicial and Public Safety Committee
Alvin Bryan
Cleveland
Anderson, Coursey & Denning
John Bodenheimer
Harry Smiley
Benjamin
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Tony Baughman
Norton
Thompson
Catherine Scott
the Heights Baptist
Beech Island
Scott
South
Robert E.) Lee
Ulysses S.) Grant
Henry Timrod
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Georgia
Charles Martin
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