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Brooklyn Yon and Kaley Garvin have logged plenty of mileage together as volleyball teammates during their senior year, and were together again…
The nominating period for Aiken's Choice 2023 ends June 15, 2023. Voting for who makes the Best of Aiken follows from June 17 to July 15.
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Converting the former Aiken Brewing Company into a restaurant called Electric Eats will have to wait. The Aiken Design Review Board voted 5-0 to delay considering plans to eliminate the recessed entry on Laurens Street and place a new window with a bar in The Alley. Read moreAiken Design Review Board delays considering new downtown restaurant plans
Converting the former Aiken Brewing Company into a restaurant called Electric Eats will have to wait. The Aiken Design Review Board voted 5-0 to delay considering plans to eliminate the recessed entry on Laurens Street and place a new window with a bar in The Alley. Read moreAiken Design Review Board delays considering new downtown restaurant plans
Citing the candidate's beliefs and his wife's ties to South Carolina, S.C. Rep. Bill Hixon, R-North Augusta, announced he is endorsing the presidential bid of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Read moreNorth Augusta's Rep. Bill Hixon endorses Ron DeSantis
As it draws plans for a mixed-use facility in downtown Aiken that could house Savannah River National Laboratory's workforce development center, city officials might use the same model employed to construct the Amentum Building. Read moreAiken could follow Amentum Building example on new downtown project
Judge William Keesley denied the Aiken Design Review Board's motion to be dismissed from the Project Pascalis lawsuit. Read moreProject Pascalis lawsuit: Aiken Design Review Board's motion to dismiss denied
Aiken County's delegation to the S.C. General Assembly discussed the session's accomplishments, including paid parental leave for teachers, removing the certificate of need system for hospitals, the Fetal Heartbeat Protection Act and school choice. Read moreAiken County state legislative delegation concludes 'consequential' session
As it draws plans for a mixed-use facility in downtown Aiken that could house Savannah River National Laboratory's workforce development center, city officials might use the same model employed to construct the Amentum Building. Read moreAiken could follow Amentum Building example on new downtown project
Secretariat's record-setting Belmont Stakes win to claim the Triple Crown still stands 50 years on
Secretariat's victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes remains arguably the most impressive performance in a horse race
Secretariat's victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes remains arguably the most impressive performance in a horse race. Secretariat ran a mile and a half in a record 2 minutes and 24 seconds and won by 31 lengths. He was such a sure bet that Sports Illustrated, Time magazine and Newsweek all put him on the cover before he won the Belmont to finish off the Triple Crown. Secretariat ended a 25-year Triple Crown drought by blowing away the other four horses who were running. Read moreSecretariat's record-setting Belmont Stakes win to claim the Triple Crown still stands 50 years on
The first big surprise in golf's new world? Seeing PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Saudi wealth fund leader Yasir Al-Rumayyan smiling together. Behind the scenes were a pair of PGA board members. One of them was Jimmy Dunne, a power broker in golf and on Wall Street. That he was involved in setting the first meeting between Monahan and the Saudis is telling. Dunne co-founded an investment banking firm that had offices in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. He lost 66 colleagues that day. Dunne is all about looking for solutions. The tour needed answers. Read morePower broker Jimmy Dunne with 9/11 history helped get PGA and Saudis to the table
With the recent release of the Durham report we again put to rest yet another attack and hoax against former president Trump. In politics it is not unusual to have candidates lie; they do it all the time. What is very concerning is that our government agencies were, and still are, taking pol… Read moreLetter: Media foments hatred of Trump