Sanford vetoes parts of budget near midnight
Governor Mark Sanford vetoes sections of the $5.5 billion budget including delaying $90 million from tougher tax enforcement to cushion a $20 million cushion for the Social Services Department. He trims $16 million more to erase a $155 million two year deficit.
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Sanford
Columbia
Mark Sanford
Department of Social Services
House
Sandy McKinney
Revenue Department
DSS
Peachy weather a boon for fruit
Peach farmer Sonny Yonce of J W Yonce & Sons in Johnston says drought like spring conditions boost peach color and size. He notes three to four days of packing and shipping and that limited rainfall last year produced better fruit. He adds peaches prefer some water and the arid climate helps flavor.
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Sonny Yonce
Yonce
J.W. Yonce & Sons
Johnston
Retired band director still conducting
Dr. Gene Redd, a lifelong educator, continues guiding students at Pine Log Road crossings despite retirement. For nearly a decade he works as a school crossing guard for Millbrook Elementary Kennedy Middle and South Aiken High School, directing morning and afternoon student crossings and funding the Wayside Project. He says he will keep at it until he drops, and notes the strong rapport with students who he has watched grow.
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Gene Redd
Redd
South Aiken
Park Avenue
Pine Log Crossing
Aiken
Half day in session after morning power outage at Chukker Creek
Chukker Creek Elementary faced a morning power outage from just after 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Staff and Aiken Public Safety kept students in class with outdoor activities and emergency lighting. About half the buses had already arrived, so a half-day schedule lasted until 11 a.m. All Aiken County public schools planned half-days through Thursday with a teacher workday Friday.
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Chukker Creek
Peggy Trivelas
Artists On the Green
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Phil Kestin
Kestin
Public Safety
Trivelas
Aiken County
Karen
Kdaily
Aikenstandard.com
End-of-year ceremonies across Aiken schools
The Aiken County Career and Tech Center honors completers at Aiken Technical College at 7 p.m. Silver Bluff High School holds commencement Thursday at 6 p.m. Ridge Spring Monetta follows at 7 p.m. Five other high schools schedule graduations Friday: South Aiken 6 p.m. North Augusta 7 p.m. Midland Valley 7 p.m. Wagener Valley 7 p.m. Aiken 8 p.m.
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Aiken County
South Aiken
North Augusta
Midland Valley
Wagener-Valley
Aiken
Aiken County School Employees Get 3 Percent Pay Boost
Aiken County public school teachers and staff will receive a 3 percent raise for 2004 2005 after the Board of Education approved an increase to match the General Assembly. The district budget stays tax unchanged and adjusts base student cost to $1 797 to cover a $487 656 cut in state funds for local innovation programs while maintaining a lower figure than the state formula.
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Aiken County
Board of Education
S.C. General Assembly
Mark Sanford
Linda Eldridge
General Assembly
Heron
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