Police blotter reports multiple thefts and a vandalism incident
Beech Island main fire department and a substation were burglarized on Monday night with a copy machine adding machine TV scanners and a Scott Air Pack stolen. A cabin on Hamilton Branch Road was burglarized on Nov 19 with a gun VCR and other items taken. A stolen GMC pickup was found off Williston Road with bedliner missing. A sign on Mt. Pleasant Road in Ridge Spring was vandalized. A black 10 speed bike was found off Outing Club Road and turned over to the sheriff. Over $3,000 in tools were stolen from a Vaucluse Road business. An Aiken Public Safety officer was assaulted at Kent’s Korner on York Street on Thanksgiving Day. suspect charged after resisting arrest. Updated 11/27/9.
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Beech Island
Sand Bar Ferry
Goodman Road
Jackson
Leon Henderson
Scott
Hamilton Branch
Williston Road
Richmond County
Mt. Pleasant Road
Ridge Spring
Outing Club Road
Graniteville
Sheriff’ Office
Vaucluse Road
Hahn Village
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Kent
Korner
York Street
J.G. Boynton
Boynton
Correction notice on Tellabration phone number error
Tuesday edition corrects phone number for storyteller Gail Wilkins to 648 1549 after an incorrect listing appeared. The Aiken Standard regrets the error.
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Gail Wilkins
Aiken visit prompts Clemson Carolina ticket joke
David Tompkins of the South Carolina Department of Agriculture visited Aiken for Farm City Week activities and later travelled to Augusta for a radio interview. He joked that a broken in car left four more Clemson Carolina tickets on the dashboard, adding a note on the season.
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David Tompkins
S.C. Department of Agriculture
Aiken
Augusta
A Holly Day in Aiken Festivities Start Today
Holiday season events spark in downtown Aiken with a 5 30 procession from The Alley to the children’s tree at Barnwell and Laurens. Mayor Cavanaugh reads The Night Before Christmas as art students light the tree and Santa attends.
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Aiken
Barnwell Avenue
Laurens Street
Fred Cavanaugh
St. Mary Help of Christians School
Flu outbreak seen in Aiken raises alarm though county remains largely unaffected
In Aiken the flu has appeared in small pockets with increases at Aiken Regional Medical Centers and Pepper Hill nursing home prompting quarantines. Health officials note the virus resembles influenza and CDC studies are underway with vaccine coverage uncertain.
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Aiken
Veleta Rudnick
Aiken County
Barbara Beeskow
Jones
SRS to receive Rocky Flats plutonium byproducts
The Savannah River Site will soon receive plutonium residues and scrub alloy from Rocky Flats. The DOE will prepare materials stored at Rocky Flats for off site disposal or other disposition. Residues will be stabilized in the F canyon and are intermediate products from past plutonium component manufacture for national defense.
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Savannah River
Rocky Flats
Department of Energy
F Canyon
New Mexico
WIPP
ATC catalog wins national gold for overall excellence
Aiken Technical College's 1998 2000 catalog earned the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations gold medallion for overall catalog excellence. Project coordinator Gioia Furness Petro said the award reflected a team effort with many hours.
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Aiken Technical College
National Council For Marketing and Public Relations
Council
St. Petersburg
Fla
Gioia Furness Petro
Round table volunteers crochet for fire victims in Aiken
A group of local women meet every Tuesday from 2 to 4 PM at the Aiken County Office on Aging to crochet and knit blankets for the Red Cross Warm Up America program. They come from varied states and backgrounds, teaching newcomers and offering social time while producing colorful afghans for families left without items after fires.
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Aiken County
Office On Aging
American Red Cross
Warm Up America
Round Table
Mary Lou Schenken
Ms. Schenken
Aiken
Rockville
Anna Hicks
Nancy Simpson
Jeanine Gast
Ellen Meekins
Millicent Taylor
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Illinois
Maryland
Alabama
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Aiken Center For the Arts
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Belvedere Road
Center For Disease Control
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Beijing
United States
SRS
ATC
Kathy Noble
Leigh Capps
Aristotle
John Lennon
Scott Webster
America
Gladys Williams
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