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When the eventing competition begins later this week at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Annie Jones and Jessica Payne will be following the action from afar with great interest.
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Dr. Harry Shealy has spent much of his life consumed with botany, calling the field his "first love."
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For people who enjoy hunting for shark teeth, making jewelry or collecting rocks, the Aiken Gem, Mineral and Fossil Society, or AGMFS, is an o…
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Aiken County is expected to receive nearly $33.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act money, and an ad hoc committee of County Council is divid…
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