The Town of Wagener will be restricting public access to its Town Hall for the next two weeks.
They will be conducting business through alternate means and public access closure will be re-evaluated on a weekly basis.
Anyone who needs to make an in-person payment will need to do so through the drop box .
Parents and Guardians: Thank you for your understanding of our need to meet with essential staff members as we completed plans to transition to Distance Learning and Nutritional service. Please note that while our schools are closed, our District office, teachers and staff are working. Although students are not physically in our classrooms, our employees’ commitment to meeting your students’ learning and nutritional needs will continue.
Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, March 17, our school buses will be transporting meals to students along our regular bus routes. These no-cost, grab-and-go meals are available to any student desiring one. Each grab-and-go bag will contain nutrition for breakfast as well as lunch. Buses transporting food for students will begin their routes at 11 a.m., and most will have made their deliveries by 12:30 p.m.
The routes are available on our website under the Department of Transportation and linked below for your convenience.
https://www.acpsd.net/Domain/78
Please be reminded about the laws in stopping for school buses. When a school bus is stopped on a two-lane road with its red lights flashing and its stop arm extended, you must stop your vehicle 20 feet from the bus. Oncoming traffic and motorists approaching the bus from behind may not move until the stop arm is retracted and the red lights are no longer flashing. There are going to be buses making deliveries, so please use caution and watch out for students as they make their way to bus stop locations for these meal deliveries.
If a student has not received a meal and the bus delivery time is delayed by more than 30 minutes at the published meal delivery time, please contact the District Transportation Office at (803) 593-7201 and a bus will be radioed to deliver a meal to your stop.
From ACPSD Superintendent King Laurence:
This afternoon, Governor McMcaster has issued an executive order to close all public schools throughout the state for a minimum period of two weeks. Our District has been preparing for the potential of a closure, and, at this time, we are expediting Distance Learning and Nutrition planning to ensure continued student learning and nutritional service throughout this mandated closure.
This school closure will begin immediately and is expected to continue at least through the end of the month. There will be no school for students in Aiken County beginning tomorrow. District leaders and school principals are asked to report to their work locations tomorrow morning to finalize planning. Teachers and other staff members should be on call tomorrow and prepared to report to work, as requested, to assist with planning.
All staff members will be essential to the success of our Distance Learning and Nutritional Service and will be called upon, as needed, to support implementation. Aiken County Public Schools will meet its financial commitment to all employees.
By Valerie Sliker
The Hollow Creek Fire Department and Chief Glenn Poole would like to thank all who came out to support this year’s “Sandlapper” motorcycle Enduro. This is the biggest fundraiser and the main source of revenue for the fire department and it was encouraging to see so many come out and support it.
“This race puts a lot of money to the fire department,” Chief Poole said. “It’s not ‘I,’ but ‘we’ get it done. It takes the community and the support of many people and we could not do this without them.” Funds raised help the fire department with the cost of Bunker gear, trucks and maintenance, training, insurance costs and more.
Sadly, one rider this year died during the race. According to the Aiken County Coroner’s Office, 56-year-old John T. Nutt of Albany, Georgia was identified as the motorcyclist and was pronounced dead at the scene. Coroner Darryl Ables said the preliminary findings for the cause of death is blunt force trauma, however an autopsy is pending.
