Understanding credit scores and how to improve them
A financial counselor explains credit scores as a measure of debt repayment likelihood and outlines how on time payments over 12 to 24 months can start improving a score. It notes negative marks from medical bills to unpaid fines and that bankruptcy can linger up to 10 years, with steps like secured credit and installment borrowing helping build a stronger score.
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Gabi Dukes
Security Federal Bank
Dukes
Area honors veterans and fallen soldiers
Dozens gathered at Horse Creek Midland Valley Veteran's Park to honor veterans and fallen soldiers. Navy veteran Larry Murphy spoke of freedom’s cost while remembering Staff Sgt Willie James Harley and Spe Luther Rabon, members of the South Carolina Army National Guard who died in Afghanistan.
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Horse Creek
Midland Valley Veteran's Park
Midland Valley High School
Larry Murphy
Murphy
Willie James Harley
Aiken
Harley
South Carolina Army National Guard
Afghanistan
Spe
Luther Rabon
Lexington
Rabon
Area Deaths Dave Manfred Chandlee and Aiken John Wilson
Obituary notices list deaths of Dave Manfred Chandlee and Aiken resident John Wilson. Details on service times and funeral arrangements are noted with area affiliations including North Augusta.
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Dave Manfred Chandlee
Aiken
John Wilson
Aiken North Augusta
Redcliffe Plantation hosts African-American interpretive tour
Elizabeth Laney led a two hour tour at Redcliffe Plantation focusing on slavery and freedmen life. She highlighted Henry Slow the only Redcliffe-born African, and the Wigfall family who rose from slavery to prosperity after the Civil War. The tour covered slave cabins and the African-American Heritage Garden.
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Beech Island
Redcliffe Plantation
Elizabeth Laney
S.C
James Henry Hammond
Laney
Henry Slow
Redcliffe
Africa
Goodwin
Bowman
Wigfall
Dennis Wigfall
Augusta
Clarence
Patience Crawford
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