Council To Get Proposed Budget For Aiken
The City of Aiken will present its upcoming fiscal year budget to the City Council for first reading approval at 7 30 p m Monday. The plan covers both general and utility funds and includes a fountain planter project near Laurens Street and Richland Avenue. A public hearing will be held on revenue sharing and a request to build a county nursing home on Dupont Drive in a single family zone.
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City of
Aiken
Parks Commission
Laurens Street
Richland Avenue
Dupont Drive
Busbee
Cooper
Salley
Aiken County
Palmetto Home Builders
Aiken High School Band Honors Medalist Ann Morris Wins Three Awards
Ann Morris a senior in the Aiken High School band received three awards at the Wednesday band concert. She earned the Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps and the Arion and William J. Slaughter Awards by band vote. Morris, a clarinetist, is one of two South Carolina members named to the McDonald’s Band.
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Aiken High School
Ann Morris
J.W. Morris
Arion
William J. Slaughter
Marine Corps
Ann
South Carolina
McDonald’s
Cloggers Dance At Hopelands
The Avery High Cloggers perform at Hopeland Gardens Monday at 7 p.m. as part of the Aiken Recreation Department Summer Concert Series with a Plumtree band. The free concert welcomes blankets or lawn chairs and offers parking on Mead Avenue near the Green Boundary Club.
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Avery High
Hopeland Gardens
Aiken Recreation Department
Cloggers
Plumtree
N.C
Mead Avenue
Green Boundary Club
Thurmond Opposes Carter Gas Tax Plan
Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina opposes the proposed 10 cent per gallon gasoline tax. He argues the tax would impose undue hardship on taxpayers, noting many drivers commute lengthy distances daily and could face a heavy financial burden.
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Washington
Sen
Strom Thurmond
S.C
Jimmy Carter
Bookmobile Schedule for May 26 Week Highlights Stops
The weekly bookmobile timetable lists multiple pickups across communities. Routes include Ward Circle Bonnieview Mockingbird Brookhaven College Acres Clemson Drive College Acres Winthrop Drive Tuesday. Midland Valley Jordan Cherokee Dixie Lee Green Acres Graniteville Wednesday. Toobee Montmorenci Couchton New Holland Perry Salley Brodie Comb's Drive Thursday. Barnwell Kearse Olaf Bennett Govan Bamberg Ehrhardt Little Swamp Ehrhardt Wagoner Store Friday with various time windows and lunch breaks.
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Ward Circle
Bonnieview
Mockingbird
Brookhaven
College Acres
Clemson Drive
Winthrop Drive
Midland Valley
Jordan Community
Cherokee Drive
Birch
Dixie Lee
Green Acres
Graniteville
Toobee
Montmorenci
Couchton Amoco
New Holland
Perry
Salley
Brodie
Comb’s Drive
Barnwell County Library
Kearse
Olaf Bennett’s
Govan
Bamberg County Library
Little Swamp
Ehrhardt — Wagoner
Three Democrats Seek House District 86 Seat
Incumbent Judson Busbee 32 Wagener resident and Vietnam veteran faces Terry McMillan Salley and Robert C. Cooper in the June 10 Democratic primary for South Carolina House District 86. Cooper, a Palmetto Home Builders owner, stresses farmer aid and housing subsidies. McMillan, an educator and Salley councilman, calls for regional cooperation and industry.
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Busbee
Cooper
McMillan
House of Representatives
S.C
Judson Busbee
Terry McMillan
Robert C. Cooper
House
Wagener
Busbee Supply Co
Lander College
Savannah River
Aiken
District 86
Salley
North District Schools
South Carolina
Plant Gas Transfer Delays Close Savannah River Site
Hydrogen sulfide transfer from a faulty tank at the Savannah River Plant continued Friday, keeping river rail access and plant roads closed into the weekend. A leak in a storage-tank input pipe prompted evacuation and precautionary closures.
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Savannah River
Bobcat Captured After Poultry Raids in County
A bobcat weighing about 40 pounds was trapped yesterday on Mrs. O. D. Mitchell’s property after raiding her chickens and turkeys. Health official Wilson F. Gantt estimated $150 in poultry losses and said the cat would be relocated by the South Colina Wildlife Department. Officials were still pursuing a second suspected feline in the area.
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O. D. Mitchell
Wilson F. Gantt
Health Department
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AHS
Hopelands
Thurmond
Jan Boylston
Senate
STORM
Butler Home
Bobcat
Home Comfort Center
Electronic Air Cleaners
Black Bart
Union St. N.E
Holley Fuel Co
Bradberry
Clearwater Village
P.O
Clearwater, S.C
A. K. Carter
Kingdom of God
God
North Enon Oe
P Desu
Ae Weed
Windsor
Windsor Fire Dept
Joe Anderson, Jr
Edgefield
Columbia
District
Aiken & Edgefield Counties
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