McClearen Faces Election Role Clash in City Office Row
Long time Republican activist H A McClearen defended his actions amid calls for clarity over a city election commissioner's involvement in a campaign. City Attorney Gary Smith said the mayor and council will seek a formal attorney general opinion to interpret a 1996 statute limiting commissioners from campaigning in elections they oversee.
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H.A
Mac) McClearen
McClearen
Election Commission
Skip
Per Perry
Campanyis Snastager
Gary Smith
Genral
Smith
Scott Singer
Singer
Perry
Mith
Three Belvedere Elementary Students Arrested At School
Three juveniles were taken into custody by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office after a deputy found them wandering Belvedere Elementary School with stolen items in hand. They carried candy Coca Cola and White Out, all school property, and were wearing gloves. The scene occurred around 12 30 p.m. on an alarm call. The suspects cannot be identified due to age and were later released to their parents.
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Belvedere
Aiken County
Betty Fraser Named Artist of the Month at Hitchcock Center
The Aiken Standard corrects Monday edition mislisting Betty Fraser as artist of the month. Fraser is the artist of the month at Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center.
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Aiken Standard
Betty Fraser
Ms. Fraser
Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center
Savannah River microbiologist wins CNTA Distinguished Scientist award
Dr Carl Fliermans, a Savannah River Site microbiologist, is honored at the CNTA eighth Edward Teller Lecture with the 1999 Distinguished Scientist of the Year award. The Augusta event highlights his work on deep subsurface microbes, Legionnaires’ disease bacteria, tire rubber sulfur recycling, TNT luminescent microbes, and radiation resistant organisms.
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Savannah River
Carl Fliermans
Citizens For Nuclear Technology
CNTA
Edward Teller
Augusta Riverwalk
Radisson
Fliermans
Cant
SRS
William C. Reinig
Dr. Fliermans
Reinig
Fuermans
Danville
Minoisur
Savannah River Laboratory
Savannah River Technology Center
Edward Albenesius
Carole Jantzen
Albert Boni
Hitchcock Woods Preserve History and Enduring Trust
Thomas Hitchcock and William Whitney bought 8000 acres for a private hunting preserve. After Whitneys death Francis Hitchcock bought out his interest and gifted the land to Mrs Thomas Hitchcock. In 1999 over 1400 acres became Hitchcock Woods a perpetual trust for Aiken citizens now managed by the Hitchcock Foundation and not saleable to private interests. Trails include Lovers Lane Devil’s Backbone and Foxes Den. Part of Lovers Land and Cathedral Aisle were rail bed segments from Hamburg to Charleston aiding Aiken’s growth.
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Thomas Hitchcock
William C. Whitney
Mr. Whitney
Francis Hitchcock
Hitchcock Woods
Aiken
Hitchcock Foundation
Lover's Lane
Devil's Backbone
Foxes den
Lover’s Land
Hamburg
Charleston
Downtown miracle reported to council unfolds housing plan
The Aiken Corporation reports near miracle progress on a downtown housing project along Laurens Street between Eulalee Valley and the Mark II theater. They have secured easements and property donations for six proposed apartments, with three pre sold, in exchange for streetscape work and other improvements. The plan includes 40 added downtown parking spaces and is praised as cost effective compared with prior projects.
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Aiken Corporation
Wade Brodie
Brodie
Laurens Street
Eulalee Valley
Mark II Theater
Erty
Parker's Body Shop
Aiken Corporation Housing Committee
Pat Canning
Robbery case handed to federal court in Aiken
Two suspects, Chandra Burnett and Nicholas Butler, were indicted on armed robbery and related charges in connection with the Anderson Federal Credit Union heist east of Aiken. The cases were turned over to the U S attorney after arrest on Oct 14 1996. Investigators described three masked men forcing a clerk to open a safe and beating a teller during the robbery.
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Aiken
Barbara Morgan
Chandra Burnett
Nicholas Jerome Butler
FBI
Aiken County Criminal Court Records Division
Ms. Burnett
Solic
Itor
Butler
Aiken County
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Brandy Coffey
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Rhonda Shelley
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