February 1, 2021
Six Aiken Hornets football players signed Wednesday to extend their athletic and academic careers beyond the high school level.
Phillip Collins signed...
February 1, 2021
The past year has thrown up plenty of obstacles for Wagener-Salley High School teachers Alex Derrick and Ethan Busbee, along with their dozens of studen...
February 1, 2021
Durring a virtual town hall meeting recently, the Alumni Association of USC Aiken announced the 2021 CORE 4 award honorees.
Winners are usually announ...
February 1, 2021
Lucinda Kenner, a native of Concord, North Carolina, got her first exposure to Aiken County in 1960, when she was living and working in Washington, D.C....
February 1, 2021
AIKEN, S.C. – Aiken Scholars Academy Principal Martha Messick could not have been more proud standing behind the podium Wednesday morning at the Ruth ...
February 1, 2021
On a late Thursday afternoon, Dr. Tiffany Hall, principal of Leavelle McCampbell Middle School in Aiken County, delivered a golden tire to this month’s ...
January 1, 2021
The All-Aiken Standard swim team is once again loaded with championship performers.
A different swimmer was picked for each of the eight individual ra...
January 1, 2021
Six runners from Aiken County Public Schools have been chosen for the 2020 All-Aiken Standard Cross Country Teams.
Aiken High’s Victoria Colon-LaBorde...
January 1, 2021
Congratulations to North Augusta‘s Cassady Fortson, South Aiken’s Lindsey Greene, and Aiken High’s Kaylee McElwain for being selected as three of the fi...
January 1, 2021
Congratulations to the Aiken County Public School students that were named to the 2020 All-Aiken Standard Football Team! This team is based off of coac...
January 1, 2021
Students from New Ellenton STEAM Magnet, Paul Knox and Schofield middle schools rcently participated in the Lions Club International annual Peace Poster...
January 1, 2021
During the Tuesday, January 26, 2020, meeting of the Aiken County Board of Education Aiken County Public Schools celebrated School Board Recognition M...
January 1, 2021
Readers of the Aiken Standard donated a record $6,498 to this year’s Community Christmas Card, a fund that benefits public school students throughout Ai...
January 1, 2021
Following rounds of exciting competition at the school and area levels, 12 students have emerged as contenders for the title of Aiken County’s Scripps S...
January 1, 2021
Silver Bluff High School Lead Counselor Elesha Ellison didn’t believe her year could get any better after she became the prestigious Golden Apple Award’...
January 1, 2021
Congratulations to South Aiken High School’s Natalie Cannon and Hannah Dickson, North Augusta High School’s Ansley Hooks and Bailey McNair, and Aiken Hi...
January 1, 2021
Two minutes. Weeks of learning, building and practicing come down to two minutes. Small robots, controlled by teenagers, compete to score the most point...
January 1, 2021
During a year of hardship for many, readers of the Aiken Standard came through for local students in need.
Readers donated a total of $6,498 to the fo...
January 1, 2021
Ten area volleyball players have been selected for the All-Aiken Standard Volleyball Team after yet another season of championships in the coverage area...
January 1, 2021
Arrington Weston is a local teacher who works at Schofield Middle School in Aiken, South Carolina. WJBF asked Mr. Weston to tell us why literacy and edu...