Memorial Day Parade Highlights Honor Veterans in Aiken
The Memorial Day parade drew thousands to Aiken featuring 120 entries from bands, fire trucks, antique cars, and military units including the 282nd Army Victory Band. Winners included the Aiken Marine Corps League Jima float and the Marine Corps Band from Parris Island. A watermelon seed spitting contest winner set a record of 30 feet 9 1 4 inches. The wreath ceremony begins Monday with JOY 102.7 FM patriotic music and a 9 50 a m F 16 flyover.
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Morris
282Nd Army
Fort Gordon
United Defense
Marine Corps League
Tures
Aiken Marine Corps League
Jima
Marine Corps
Parris Island
Rick's Produce and
True Value
Kip ‘Smith
Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park
Richland Avenue
JOY 102.7
Tires Drive Recycling Grant Start in Aiken
Aiken public works unveil a tire recycling grant pilot with a $2 fee per tire funded by state residents. The project uses scarce equipment sourced from elsewhere to resurface streets including Belair Terrace and Lorraine Drive, with bid openings June 12 and work starting soon after.
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LeDuc
Morris
City
Lundee Drive
Ravenwood Court
Whitemarsh Drive
Round Hill Court
Minikahda Court
Sperrin Circle
Overlook Drive
Thorpe Lane
Memorial dedication recalls Liberty Memorial's enduring spirit
About 8,000 cheered as memorial founder Ned Tom and supporters recalled the monument. Doran Carr cited unbridled patriotism at the first dedication in 1926 when President Calvin Coolidge attended. The memorial, once grand, deteriorated by the 1990s with soot stains and crumbling tower base. Restorers rebuilt seven foot urns and sourced limestone from the original Indiana quarry to preserve the look.
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Myers
Doran Carr
Calvin Coolidge
Greg Schultz
Manufacturing decline sparks wage and jobs worry
Census figures show a decline in manufacturing with the total workforce dipping from 31.1 percent a decade earlier. Washington counsel Jock Nash of Milliken and Co calls manufacturing the bulwark of middle class America and urges action to save it as two thirds of Americans lack above high school education and could lose entry to the middle class.
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Jock Nash
Washington
Milliken and Co
America
Nash
Pair arrested in armed robbery at Warrenville store
Aiken County Sheriffs Office arrested Warrenville resident Christopher Vause, 20, and Aiken resident Stephane DeCosta, 18, for the May 3 armed robbery of Kenrick's Grocery on Pine Log Road. Vause faces armed robbery and first degree burglary charges. DeCosta faces armed robbery and harboring charges. They were custody at the Aiken County Detention Center.
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Aiken County
Aiken
Stephane DeCosta
Burns St
Sheriff's Office
Aiken County Detention Center
Midland Valley High honor student dies in crash after safety class
A three vehicle crash on roadway 14 left Stewart about 100 feet and Smith about 30 feet from the wreck. Both died at the scene. Patrolman Hughes said a tox report would determine alcohol involvement. Stewart, near graduation, had just attended a school safety class with an officer from the Aiken County Sheriff's Office stressing wise choices.
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Stewart
Smith
Hughes
Midland Valley High School
Aiken County
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Tony Craps
Emalie Johnson
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Ned Tom
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Dougherty Rd
Allstate
Done Pine Farms, Inc. Landscaping & Lawncare
Begonia
Coleus
Ridge Spring
Rat Vance
Adi
Bermuda
Zoysia
ST. Augustine
Super
Riverwatch Parkway
Aiken’s
CSA
Cole’s
N Nature Store & Garden Act
Lawness St
Y Bua
Surrey
Calverts
Charleston Stret Garcons
Gao Bota
Grile
Fresh Thyme
Janoscos
Tayor
Mery Times
Paine Webber Perini
Cates & Tea
Cate Rives & Glen
Esse Soto ‘Survey Center Pharmacy
Mage
White Horse Package Store
Wile Saver
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