Save ORA site for recreation in Aiken County
Editorial urges keeping the ORA Boyd Pond Road site as a public recreation facility. It notes 210 acres with soccer fields and trails, the push to sell to a private bidder, and calls for a negotiated county city partnership to preserve public use and seek a fair sale price.
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ORA
Aiken County
Aiken
S.C
Aikenstandard
Operations Recreation Association
Boyd Pond Road
SRS
Silver Bluff
Boyd Pond
Aiken County Council
Local Aiken Standard staff and contact details listed
A reader note lists staff positions and email placeholders for the Aiken Standard publication including Publisher Editor Advertising Director Business Manager News Director Production Director Circulation Director Systems Manager and Customer Service Manager with associated mock emails.
Historic St Mary church plan drew parish concerns in Aiken
Mary W Edmonds Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer forwards comments on a proposed expansion of the 1905 St Mary Help of Christians Church in York Street and Park Avenue. The letter urges limiting changes to preserve Gothic Revival character while noting space and parking gaps and offering alternatives for relocation or a new parish to ease growth pressures.
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Dan Elywick
Richard Sidebottom
St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church
St. Mary Help of Christians Church
Pianana
St. Mary Help ‘of Christians
Aiken Missions
Renaldo Hario Panzironi
New York City
St. Claire's Chapel
St Claire's Chapel
York Street
Park Avenue
Aiken
St Mary Help of Christians Parish seeks expansion or new church
Rosamond McDuffie appeals to Aiken residents in a letter to the editor urging a plan to enlarge St Mary Help of Christians or build a new church on Whiskey Road south of Aiken. She notes the historic landmark status of the parish complex and requests community input and potential tours.
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Aiken
St. Mary Help of Christians
St. Mary
St Claire's Chapel
St. Mary’s
Whiskey Road
St. Mary's ‘Church
Whiskey Road South
Park Avenue
South Whiskey
Rosamond McDuffie
Sanford Defends Confederate Flag as Historical Symbol at NAACP Talk
Local leader advocates ending the tourism boycott of South Carolina while defending the Confederate flag on State House grounds as a historical symbol. He urges display within a museum or heritage exhibit and calls for broader remembrance of South Carolina history beyond the flag. The piece notes NAACP actions, critique of the boycott, and comments by SC NAACP president Lonnie Randolph.
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Mark Sanford
South Carolina
NAACP
Augusta
State House
Sanford
Confederacy
Naacp Doycott
Stanford
S.C. Naacp
Lonnie Randolph
South Caro
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