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Approximately 6,000 appeals were filed in 2011 with the Assessor's Office, and the chief complaint appears to be that many people don't believe the fair market value of their property increased in a down market. Sixty thousand properties out of the roughly 100,000 assessed increased in fair market value.
Following two deaths of local law enforcement officers in Aiken County, Aiken Standard began a series of columns and community articles to answer, "What can we do to make our community better?"
The Laurens Street Bridge collapsed a few inches after heavy rainfalls. The South Carolina Department of Transportation officially approved the use of Federal Emergency Relief funding to help cover the costs of the Laurens Street Bridge repairs.
The Hopelands Gardens Summer Concert Series is a series of concerts on Monday evenings during the summertime and is a free event to the public offered by Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
Yucca Mountain was planned to be used as a repository storage facility for nuclear waste, until the project was opposed in 2010 and funding canceled in early 2011.
Despite several state and countywide races that came down to the wire, a number of candidates ran unopposed and sailed into their seats with relative ease.
The gloomy weather and the long lines reported at some precincts did not appear to deter voters from casting their ballots Monday as poll workers across Aiken County reported higher-than-normal turnouts.
Voters appeared to soundly say “no” to the county-wide referendum asking if they preferred to change the form of government from council-administrator to council-manager, according to unofficial numbers.
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama heralded his re-election with a call to action early Wednesday, telling Americans that their citizenship doesn't end with their vote and declaring that the “best is yet to come.”
We won't get results from the last two Aiken County polling places until Wednesday. Everything is close enough to call, so here is the final Aiken County results (minus the two precincts):
While the general election might not break partisan gridlock in Congress, it could result in historic changes for U.S. social policy: Several states had a chance to be the first to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote and to legalize recreational use of...
ST. LOUIS — North Carolina voters elected their first Republican governor in two decades Tuesday, fanning the GOP’s hope of broadening their party’s hold on governor’s mansions across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats closed in on keeping their majority in the Senate, swiping Republican-held Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts on Tuesday and keeping a once vulnerable seat in Missouri.
WASHINGTON — Republicans drove toward renewed control of the House on Tuesday as Democrats failed to make any significant inroads into the GOP’s delegations from the East, South and Midwest.
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER and SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:08 a.m.
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COLUMBIA — Some voters waited four or more hours in Richland County on Tuesday, as GOP and Democratic party leaders complained of broken machines amid an expected record Election Day turnout.
