Chamber receives grant to explain state report cards in Aiken
The Aiken Chamber of Commerce won an $8,000 grant from the South Carolina Business Center for Excellence in Education Foundation to hire a part time staffer to explain the upcoming state report cards. The position aims to clarify the document and support improvements while the chamber coordinates with Public Education Partners and local schools. Applications are due Oct 10 and hiring is planned by late October.
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South Carolina Education Oversight Committee
Aiken
South Carolina Business Center For Excellence In Education Foundation
Karen Garcia
Education For
Chamber
RCS Corporation
Garcia
Aiken church to host historic lecture by Stephen Smith
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, one of Aiken's oldest houses of worship, will host a Historic Aiken Foundation lecture this Sunday at 3:20 PM. Camden restoration architect Stephen Smith will discuss preservation efforts and the church's 1866 origin, 1893 rebuild, landmark status, and decades of use.
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Aiken
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
Historic
Aiken Foundation
Camden
Stephen Smith
Smith
Friendship
Henry Craig
Friendship Baptist
Historic Aiken Foundation
Foundation
Aiken Couty
Richland Avenue
Kershaw Street
Maureen
Chavis
Five years probation for Orangeburg shirt theft case
George Wannamaker Jr of Orangeburg received five years probation after pleading for conspiracy and theft in a scheme that stole 850 shirts worth more than 400000 from Florida Express Freightways in Orangeburg. He must serve six months home detention and pay restitution of 150 dollars monthly, with total share exceeding 108700 dollars. Juan M. Pinon faces up to ten years and fines up to 500000 after Guilty pleas.
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Orangeburg
Cameron Currie
George Wannamaker Jr
Currie
Wannamaker
Weia
Charles E. Simons Jr
Dean Eichelberger
Juan M. Pinon
Pinon
Eichelberger
Honduras
Winnsboro
Florida Express Freightways
Wannamaker’s
Policy mandates school board action on expulsions
The Aiken County Board of Education will ratify all expulsions, not only those appealed to the board. Superintendent Linda Eldridge said previously principals and advisory councils’ expulsions without appeals were not ratified. The board will receive lists of nonappealed expulsions for ratification as they arise. In other business, delays at Paul Knox Middle School’s renovation center on the roofing subcontract, not the contract, with most of the facility slated to open on schedule and the media center to be converted into three classrooms by Christmas.
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Aiken County
Paul Knox Middle School
Bill Gallman
Gallman
Two Plead Guilty in Counterfeit Scam
Two men pleaded guilty in U S District Court in Spartanburg to passing about $9,000 in counterfeit payroll checks. Larry Turner of North Augusta and Dantel Wallace of Edgefield admitted cashing the forgeries at banks and businesses in Edgefield and Johnston over two months. They face up to $250,000 fines and five years in prison, to be sentenced before Federal Judge Margaret Seymour.
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U S. District Court
Spartanburg
Scott N. Schools
Larry Turner
North Augusta
Dantel Wallace
Edgefield
Turner
Margaret Seymour
Secret Service
Gaged
Ifield and
Johnstaf
Telethon volunteers pitch for local donations in Aiken County
United Way of Aiken County runs its third annual Telethon at the Holiday Inn Express with more than 50 volunteers from health service agencies and area businesses. Scott Dunn of First Citizens Bank chairs the Community Businesses Division and aims to raise 8000 dollars from local firms while engaging new volunteers.
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United Way
United Way of
Aiken County
Holiday Inn Express
Scott Dunn
First Citizens Bank
Community Businesses Division
Dunn
Tony Creed
Wackenhut Services, Inc
Creed
Dee Stanford
Cathy Simmons
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County Tech Prep Consortium
Aiken County School District
USC Aiken
Aiken Technical College
Economic Development Partnership of
Aikenchamber.net
Aiken Church
Maureen B.C
Tors
Orangeburg County
Loren
Peter O Tringiver
Oyd
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