State budget battle deepens in South Carolina Senate
After three days of delay the South Carolina Senate began debating a $5.6 billion budget. Republicans and Democrats remained split on spending priorities as the session opened around 8 pm Thursday. An amendment to boost First Steps funding by 12 million failed to be tabled on a 23-21 vote with two Republican senators defecting to support the program.
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Columbia
State Senate
Jim Hodges
First Steps
Senate
Warren Giese
John Courson
Perkiomen Township shifts from dairy to young families
Nation Graterford Pa reports Perkiomen Township now centers on raising children as more than 11 percent of residents are under age five. The piece notes a demographic shift from dairy farming to a younger population focus.
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Graterford
Perkiomen Township
Deaths Skip Cooper Aiken Todd Enion Freddie Geter Warrenvile
Obituary notices list several individuals including Skip Cooper Aiken Todd Enion Freddie Geter Warrenvile Bill Green and Fred Seward Comer, with brief notices filed in the 5A section of the newspaper.
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Skip Cooper
Aiken
Todd Enion Aiken
Freddie Geter
Warrenvile
Bill Green
Fred Seward Moncks Comer
Thurmond backs Bush energy plan and SRS MOX role
U S Senator Strom Thurmond praised President Bush energy initiative and urged broader nuclear use for civilian power. He supports MOX facility at the Savannah River Site to manage weapons grade plutonium and fuel commercial reactors, urging government reactors to spur private power. He asked Vice President Cheney to lead such expansion amid energy shortages.
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Strom Thurmond
D.C
Bush
Thurmond
Savannah River
Dick Cheney
Americas
Cheney
Energy Post
Traffic study stalls Aiken hotel project on Whiskey Road
Aiken County Planning Commission heard three hours of input on a proposed three story hotel and conference center at Hunter's Glenn Road with 16 residents blasting the plan over traffic, wetlands, water and property values. The panel voted to table the proposal pending a traffic study as residents opposed a 204 space parking variance and feared added congestion linked to nearby Chukker Creek Elementary and the Savannah River Site. Augusta resident Bansi Patel and Southern Partners Inc were named as developers.
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Aiken County
Chukker Creek Road
Shakerag Road
Chukker Creek
Savannah River
Augusta
Bansi Patel
Southern Partners, Inc
Liv
Construction worker dies after on the job incident
Todd Enlow a 30 year old Custom Metal Fabricators worker from Aiken was rushed to the Medical College of Georgia after an incident Thursday. He died from head and internal injuries. Autopsy scheduled to determine cause. A separate incident Monday saw Roman Lambert killed repositioning a backhoe at Sage Valley Golf Club. Lambert died at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Sheriff’s Office says Lambert’s death ruled accidental.
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Custom Metal
Todd Enlow
Sweet Gum Road
Aiken
The
Medical College of Georgia
EMS Thursda
Enlow
Darryl Ables
Bles
Newberry
Ables
Roman Lambert
Blythe
Aiken Regional Medical Centers
Sage Valley Golf Club
Graniteville
Lambert
Michael Frank
Aiken County
Washington Group financing plan approved by court
A Nevada judge approved Washington Group paying workers and suppliers with borrowed money as the company nears a June 13 hearing on a possible 350 million loan. The bankruptcy court will weigh allowing financing to aid reorganization. Washington Group owns Washington Government Services, and WSRC at Savannah River Site remains unaffected by the restructuring plan.
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Nevada
Washington
Washington Group
Washington Government Services
Savannah River
Westinghouse Savannah River Co
WSRC
Compa
York mayor faces murder charges in 1969 case
York mayor Charlie Robertson, 67, charged in the 1969 murder of Lillie Belle Allen, a Black woman from Aiken killed after driving into a White gang’s nexsuveryood clash. Robertson rejects resignation amid ongoing reelection bid as rioting and gunfire erupted during York’s race riots that July.
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AP Phok
York
Charlie Robertson
Pennsylvania
Lillie Belle Alien
Aiken
Sumner
Robertson
Lillie Belle Allen
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