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Thousands of Aiken Electric Cooperative customers without power in 3 SC counties
WJBF – Thousands of Aiken Electric Cooperative customers are without power in several counties in South Carolina. According to a spokesperson for Aiken Electric Cooperative, the outages are in Aiken, Saluda, and Edgefield counties. Aiken Electric Cooperative states that this is a transmission outage stemming from Santee Cooper and that down transmission line caused a […]
North Augusta, Aiken make Top 10 list of S.C. hometowns
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - North Augusta and Aiken made the list of the10 best places to call home in South Carolina, according to data from USA Today Homefront. Using 16 different quality-of-life metrics, USA Today Homefront gathered data on 26 cities across South Carolina to rank their livability and appeal. These factors include walkability, crime, school district rating, unemployment risk, median income, rent burden and more.
Historic Fermata Club will hold vote to sell to private developers
A historic Aiken tennis and pool club may have new owners soon. The member-owned Fermata Club will vote Sunday whether to sell the property to Tiffany & Tiffany, LLC, composed of Cliff Drysdale, Rakesh Jasani, Rob Johnston and Dr. John Tiffany. The decision requires a majority of the membership to...
Hometown History: The Ridge Peach Festival
Trenton, S.C. (WJBF)- For half a century the small town of Trenton has celebrated its annual ridge peach festival. It all began when community leaders decided to start promoting the area’s thriving peach industry. Trenton, South Carolina was established in the late 1860’s with the coming of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroads. Longtime Trenton […]
North Augusta neighborhood continues fight against development
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WJBF)- People living in one North Augusta neighborhood are fighting to keep a huge development from their back doors. In March, the North Augusta Planning Commission denied a proposal from BRD Land & Investments to rezone nearly 130 acres surrounding the Sudlow Crossing neighborhood off of Ascauga Lake Road. The plan is […]
'A huge puzzle': Aiken authors piece together story in epic biography
Deborah Taussig-Boehner didn’t have many memories of her father and the subject of her book, "The Suitcase: The Life and Times of Captain X." Her father, Vladimir George Taussig, was 56 when she was born. She collaborated with Lauren Housman in 2014 to write an almost 500-page World War...
Two political forums for Richmond County run-off races happening Thursday
As the races for Richmond County Sheriff and Superior Court Judge resulted in a run-off, the community is hosting opportunities for the public to hear what the candidates have to say before voting again.
Richmond County sheriff candidates go before voters in forums
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Richmond County Sheriff Sheriff Richard Roundtree and his primary runoff challenger, Eugene “Gino Rock” Brantley will address voters in a pair of forums Thursday. The first forum will be from 5-6 p.m. as an initiative of the AME, AMEZ and CME denominations. It will...
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