City Council boosts Public Safety capital funding
The Aiken City Council approved an extra 1.9 million from Capital Projects Sales Tax IV for Public Safety with funds earmarked for facility construction or renovation. Competing uses discussed earlier included parks and recreation expansions. Present council members Dewar and Diggs were absent for the session.
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Aiken Department of Public Safety
Public Safety
Dick Dewar
Gail Diggs
Thesday
Andrea Gregory
Capital Projects
Standoff Near North Augusta Ends With Suspect Hospitalized
A man was hospitalized after a standoff on Oriole Avenue off Bunting Drive in North Augusta. Officers attempted peaceful surrender but failed, and the suspect suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Hammond Elementary was briefly on soft lockdown. no others injured. The case remains under investigation.
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Oriole Avenue
Bunting Drive
North Augusta
Thornton
Thorton
Hammond HM
Deaths and Funerals in South Carolina Area
Obituary notice listing multiple area residents including Estelle Lanay Wagener Maria Backy Doughty Ann Vankriegefield Hicks Frances Balin Mary Lee Tarbox Robert New Ellenton with funeral notices and service listings in the 4A section.
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Estelle Lanay
Wagener
Maria Rebecce "Backy” Doughty
Aiken
Ann Tine Vankriegefield
Hicks Flufston
Frances. Balin
North Augusta
Mary Lee Tarbox
Robert
New Illenton
GOP gubernatorial candidates field questions in South Carolina forum
Four Republican hopefuls Kevin Bryant Yancey McGill Catherine Templeton and John Warren gathered at the AECOM Center for the Performing Arts to discuss education taxes and MOX facility issues. McGill and Warren pressed for accountability and cabinet level education reform while Templeton urged vocational education expansion. Bryant urged federal micromanagement limits and both Bryant and McGill endorsed shifting the education superintendent under the governor. The forum concluded with discussion on the Savannah River MOX project as shared by the candidates.
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Catherine Templeton
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Gill
Warren
Bryant
Columbia
Washington DC
South Carolina
Aiken
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