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New purpose for old building
11/20/2009 12:38 AM
When the Aiken County Public Library moved into the old Aiken Institute building on Chesterfield Street, only one portion of the structure was used to house the library. The north wing with its 17,000 square feet of space was left vacant.
Now th ...
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11/19/2009 12:38 AM
Wouldn't a Heisman Trophy look nice on the campus of Clemson University?
It would go well with the national championship hardware Clemson already has, and a strong case can be made for C.J. Spiller to win this year's honor as top college footbal ...
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11/18/2009 12:38 AM
Keeping students in school until high school graduation should be a top priority for South Carolina. Educators say it is. Lawmakers say it is. But putting teeth into that claim is missing.
In a state that lags behind many others in education ach ...
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11/17/2009 12:35 AM
1. It saddens me to read so many letters in the Standard on health care reform, in which the writers are comfortable in denying access to health care for the less fortunate among us. We are a mix of the well-off, the poor and all those in between. Th ...
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11/17/2009 12:34 AM
The war in Afghanistan, never far from our thoughts, is about to get even closer.
A number of Aiken-based Army reservists are being deployed to Afghanistan along with the 802nd Ordnance Company next month, part of a yearlong stint in the heart o ...
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11/16/2009 12:34 AM
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., struck a note for his fellow South Carolinians last week.
As the Edward Teller Lecture speaker, Rep. Clyburn told the audience at the event held in Augusta that if Yucca Mountain is removed as a site for permanent dispo ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
No one likes to feel as though they are abandoned. Yet, that is exactly how a local community group is viewing our federal government and its promise to permanently store high level nuclear waste.
The Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organiza ...
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