Graniteville Company Sees Hope After Third Quarter Slide
Graniteville reports a 25.1 percent drop in consolidated net sales for the quarter ending Oct. 3 to 54.17 million, with nine months showing a loss of 7.59 million. The firm, a denim and heavy work clothing manufacturer with 5,300 state workers, plans asset transfers and cost reductions while expecting an economic upturn.
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Graniteville
Warrenville
Aiken Fire Rating Upgraded to Class Two
Aiken residents will see fire insurance rate reductions after the city earned a Class 2 rating from the Insurance Services Office. Premium cuts range from about 7 to 25 percent depending on building type and location, with larger savings for certain commercial and masonry structures.
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Aiken
S.C
Charles Koon
Insurance Services
Columbia
Joe Barnett
State Department of Insurance
Barnett
State Department
John Hunter
Lyon-Croft-Weeks & Hunter
Hunter
Koon
ISO
Lewis Brown
Hutson-Etherredge-Brown
Brown
Insurance Services Office
United States
Roland Windham
Southeast
Tooth Exchange Sparks Fourth Grade Tooth Tale
Christy Mills brought a tooth to Aiken Elementary third grade class and planned to give it to Jennifer McKay. Jennifer had left a tooth under her pillow, and Christy hoped the tooth fairy would visit for both.
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Christy Mills
Jackie Socha
Aiken Elementary
Jennifer McKay
Jennifer
County Pilot Held On Drug Conspiracy Charge
Paul D. Wyatt and three others were arrested in Vero Beach Florida on conspiracy to traffic cocaine. Wyatt, manager and co owner of Twin Lakes Executive Airport near Edgefield County, faces 500 000 bond and potential prison time if convicted. An Indian River County task force conducted a three month investigation ending with a staged drug sale.
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Aiken County
Indian River
Fla
Vero Beach
Paul D. Wyatt
Twin Lakes
Edgefield County
S.C. 144
Wyatt
Indian River County
Tim Dobeck
Dobeck
Candidates Speak At Aiken County Board Forum
Nine of eleven candidates attended the Midland Valley High School forum, the second in a four town series. They answered audience questions on discipline, budgets, and middle school sports while outlining opening and closing remarks.
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Langley
Aiken County Board of Education
Aiken County Education Association
Midland Valley High School
Sally S. Bigger
J.P. Kneece Jr
Midland Valley Forum
Silver Bluff High School
South Aiken High School
Celestine P. Blassengale
Linda M. Clary
Denton T. Johnson
Aiken County
Chalma R. Lindler
Walter Moore
Henry P. Moseley Jr
Robert H. Slay
James Roland Smith
Warrenville
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Billy Pitts
Morganton
N.C
Pitts
Glenn
Wayne
Betty
Paul Wyatt
Organized Crime Bureau
Federal Aviation Authority
Ralph Gunnells
Gunnells
Sheriff's Department
U.S. District Court
Augusta
Elbert
Lincoln
Auv