Archive By Author - Martin L. Cahn
Now that the town of Bethune no longer has a police department to fund, it will have a $29,557 surplus on hand for the 2014 fiscal year that started July 1. Bethune Town Council passed third and final reading of the budget at a special June 27 meeting.
July 05, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Kershaw County
$31,892,936.
July 03, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Healthcare
With a looming physician shortage -- possibly by as much as more than 130,000 nationally by 2025 -- KershawHealth is looking to shore up its physician recruitment and retention programs. Those efforts were the focus of a presentation by KershawHealth Director of Physician Staffing and Development Cameron Mosier at the KershawHealth Board of Trustees' June 24 meeting. Mosier's presentation included some warnings to the board, including the effects of healthcare reform and major physician shortages.
July 01, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Healthcare
S.C. Highway Patrol (SCHP) troopers, in conjunction with the Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO), Camden Police Department (CPD) and Kershaw County's Community Action for a Safer Tomorrow (CAST), will begin its July 4th weekend enforcement program Wednesday at 6 a.m. Enhanced patrols, checkpoints and other efforts will continue until 12 a.m. Saturday night.
July 01, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A couple of weeks ago, I enjoyed a nice outing with one of my sisters and my two sons. We went to a Columbia theater -- only to make it easier on my sister -- to see "Man of Steel," the new Superman movie starring British actor Henry Cavill in the titular role. I'm here to highly recommend it and not just because it's a superhero film, a genre everyone knows I like. I'm recommending it because it's a really great movie.
July 01, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
For the first time in five years, KershawHealth will conduct an employee morale survey, thanks to a unanimous vote to do so by the KershawHealth Board of Trustees. The board voted to do so during its general meeting Monday evening following a motion by Trustee Derial Ogburn.
June 28, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Healthcare
Jean Rowland is retiring as the director of Associated Charities of Kershaw County (ACKC) after 20 years. Rowland has spent a full 30 years as a trustee on the ACKC board.
June 26, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Miscellaneous
This week's headline is based on the premise that someday, perhaps someday really soon, a prosecutor -- or a solicitor, as we call them here in South Carolina -- might say something like it in a courtroom.
June 24, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
A Camden Business Alliance (CBA) straw poll of its members show that 60 percent of the respondents are not in favor, or have serious reservations about, a proposed "road diet" of Broad Street. The poll was conducted June 12-19, a week after CBA's quarterly Business Before Hours meeting featuring representatives from an engineering firm and the S.C. Department of Transportation (DOT).
June 24, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Camden
Back in March 2012, I wrote about my newfound love of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. I mentioned -- almost as a side note -- the brilliant HBO television series based on the books (and named after the first novel) Game of Thrones.
June 17, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
Back in March 2012, I wrote about my newfound love of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. I mentioned -- almost as a side note -- the brilliant HBO television series based on the books (and named after the first novel) Game of Thrones.
June 17, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
A new shopping center may be built in Camden next to Lowe's on West DeKalb Street.
June 14, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Camden
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) arrested a 43-year-old Camden man June 3 after he attempted to break into a car wash on Jefferson Davis Hwy. in east Camden.
June 12, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A lot of people have become outraged at the idea that Verizon is turning over -- on a daily basis -- huge amounts of data to the National Security Agency (NSA) tied to American cell and other phone usage.
June 10, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
The Kershaw County Board of School Trustees unanimously passed, 6-0, the Kershaw County School District's (KCSD) $69 million budget for the 2013-14 school year. Trustees Louis Clyburn, Don Copley and Nissary Wood were absent from the June 4 meeting at the district's offices.
June 10, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Education
