Crack addicts stroll down the streets, admittedly high.
It's been five years since Carrie Gibbs held a piece of chalk or scribbled a math equation on the blackboard. Five years since she graded a test or kept a pupil after school for flying paper airplanes. Smith removes freshly fried green tomatoes from a kettle at the Fried Green Tomato Festival at the Country Ranch in Beech Island . Nearly 300 people have signed petitions opposing development of a 33-acre tract of land on the edge of Aiken's horse district. The race for the South Carolina House of Representatives seat held by the late Rudy Mason for nearly three terms has developed into a contest among three Republicans, all of whom call themselves conservative, and one independent who finds fault with both parties.