Old-time Horse Farmers Exhibit At Edisto Center
Edisto Research and Education Center hosts a two day live exhibit on Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm featuring field tasks with draft horses and mules including plowing discing harrowing corn binding and multiple hitches. Activities include cane squeezing cow milking butter churning soap making wool spinning sheep shearing wagon rides and a petting barn. Admission is 3 for adults 2 for students and free for age 4 and younger. Two school advisory groups meet Thursday Area Three Horse Creek Valley at 6 pm and Area Four Wagoner Salley Ridge Spring Monetta and nearby communities at 7 30 pm.
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Edisto
Blackville
Edisto Research and Education Center
Area Three
Horse Creek Valley
Area Four
Wagoner, Salley
Ridge Spring
Monetta
Burglary and theft incidents reported across local area
Police blotter records multiple crimes from the week including a burglary at Kent's Korner on York Street with Newport cigarette thefts, tool theft from Beech Island Avenue, and a store storage building break in on Whiskey Road. Other incidents include a Ramada Inn burglary, ATV and motorcycle thefts, wallet thefts at Midland Valley High School, vandalism at Woodruff Drugs, and a damaged Volvo. Police seek suspects.
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Kent's Korner
York Street
Hampton Avenue
Beech Island Avenue
Whiskey Road
Ramada Inn
Frontage Road
Jeffcoat Road
Wagoner
Goose Platter Road
Batesburg
Midland Valley High School
Storm Branch Road
North Augusta
Woodruff
Aiken Tech Adds Introductory Theater Class
Starting October 8, Aiken Technical College will offer an introductory theater course taught by Thurmond Whatley. Whatley links drama to technical education, noting team work, quick thinking, and clear communication as benefits. He has long been involved with the Aiken Community Playhouse as actor and director.
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Aiken Technical College
ATC
Thurmond Whatley
Whatley
Aiken Community Playhouse
Beasley pushes tax relief plan in Aiken stop
David Beasley outlined a phased removal of car and truck property taxes during a press conference in Aiken. He cited South Carolina's high tax burden, a 1995 property tax cut, and estimated $850 per family in relief while noting 81 percent of cars are valued at $10,000 or less.
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David Beasley
Aiken
South Carolina
Beasley
Don Weaver
South Carolina Association of Taxpayers
Phelan Motor Sports
Rod Grandy
Warning on shoddy contractors after carport collapse
Jona Bing of Aiken County warns others after paying 1395 for a carport that did not fit and leaked, later collapsing on her car. The contractor’s license had expired, the case was dropped, and a small claims victory could not be collected as the contractor owned no property. Bing urges vigilance and reporting to prevent others from similar loss.
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Jona Bing
Aiken County
S.C. Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation Board
Bing
Pete Frommer
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Wait Until Dark opens ACP season at Aiken
Aiken Community Playhouse launches its 1998 99 season October 2 with the tense thriller Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott. Susy Hendrix, a blind woman, faces danger as three thugs hunt a doll hidden with heroin while con man Roat manipulates events in her Greenwich Village apartment.
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Aiken Community Playhouse
ACP
Frederick Knotts
Susy Hendrix
Greenwich Village
Roat
Ken Hofstetter
Susy
Lora Rhinehart
Katelyn Rhinehart
Gloria
Lorin Hammond-Ross
Sam
Bill Brown
Chuck Shick
Don Currier
Floyd Cummings
New York Post
Funds loss top concern for SRRDI
The Savannah River Regional Diversification Initiative SRRDI board discussed future funding. SRRDI covers five counties in South Carolina and three in Georgia created to offset Savannah River Site downsizing. Proposals seek to extend funding to 2008 with hoped job restoration and 75 new tech businesses.
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Langley
Savannah River
SRRDI
Department of Energy
Aiken
Allendale
Barnwell
South Carolina
Richmond
Columbia
Georgia
House of Representatives
DOE
SRS
Lewis Attardo
SARDI
Westinghouse
Attardo
Congress
Richmond County
Columbia County
North Augusta approves riverfront taxes on first reading
North Augusta City Council passed a 3 percent accommodations tax and a 2 percent hospitality tax at its meeting, with an estimated 500000 in revenue for the year. Funds will back the riverfront and Streetscape redevelopment. Only Carolyn Baggot and Ken McDowell voted against, citing ordinance wording concerns. A second reading is set for Oct. 5 with a final vote on Oct. 19.
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North Augusta
Carolyn Baggot
Ken McDowell
Aiken history buff acquires rare 1897 photograph album
Allen Riddick president of the Aiken County Historical Society discovers a 1897 Aiken photograph album in Pennsylvanian hands after a Caroliniana Library find. The album chronicles two wintering Smith brothers with images of cockfighting, weighing cocks and events around Aiken.
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Allen Riddick
Aiken
Willcox
Highland Park
Riddick
Aiken County
Pennsylvania
Columbia
George
Ed Smith
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Rudy Mason
Prine Young
Rick Osbon
Scott Webster
Tom Lef
Greg Ryberg
Sharon Taylor
Thriller
Jared Karl Allen Riddick
By Craig Gist
N.A
By Lynne Katonak
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!