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Passover begins today, includes rare ceremony

Passover begins at sundown tonight, the start of an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

This year, Passover includes Birkat Hachama, or the Blessing of the Sun, which comes every 28 years. Local synagogues will remember the Passover with ceremonial dinners called Seders.

Chabad of Augusta will hold its Seder at 8 p.m. after a Blessing of the Sun service at 7:30 p.m. Both will be held at the Chabad House, 3924 Old Furys Ferry Road. Call (706) 722-7659.

Congregation Children of Israel's community Seder on Thursday night is sold out. Its Passover service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the temple, 3005 Walton Way. Call (706) 736-3140.

SRS submits proposal for landfill expansion

A request from Savannah River Site for a Class Two landfill expansion has been received by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, according to a news release Tuesday.

The proposal is consistent with local zoning, and the landfill area is not within 1,000 feet of any home, day care center, church, school, hospital or public park, the release said.

The public can review the request at the Environmental Quality Control Region 5 Aiken Office, 206 Beaufort St. N.E. Written comments can be mailed to John Schnabel, BLWM, SC DHEC, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29201. All comments must be received by 5 p.m. May 1.

State gets $8.9 million grant for education

Georgia has been awarded an $8.9 million federal grant to improve its educational data system, the state Department of Education announced Tuesday.

Georgia was one of 27 states that received a 2009 Statewide Longitudinal Data System Grant from the Institute of Educational Sciences, a division of the U.S. Department of Education.

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patriciathomas

Only black Jews were slaves of the white Egyptians. White Jews and black Egyptians weren't involved, but our current president has just toured Europe apologizing for the success of white Jews in America. He promised not to let that happen again.

patriciathomas

Woopie!! More money for education. Georgia will be a lot more smarterer now.

SCGAL53

Patricia, why did you have to bring race into this. You are no help to this community. There is more than enough racial tension and you certainly do not need to contribute. Your data might not even be correct and it only creates more trouble. Sick!

Boston93

The lottery is called the South Carolina Education Lottery, so I say if we are trying to use bailout money for education that is supposedly a state function, we need to shutdown the lottery and let those that waste their money pay more taxes that would go toward education. Since the lottery has millions in the bank of the people that have gambled, why not use that to help the problem. If we get bailout money, we have to repay, so help us out lottery.

JohnQPublic

Patricia stick it in your ear! You have a bitter attitude about life. You comment has nothing to do with anything or anyone but you!

toldya

Boston: Excellent point- where is the money for education through the lottery going to? Why are we cutting programs and firing/laying off teachers? What is Sanford doing with the money from the lottery proceeds?

Tujeez1

Whatsamatter tunnelrat.......you wear out your three-card-monty shirt?

Hepkikyo

Wow! No crime in the News when we have company over... No need to air our dirty laundry during Masters week...

sueboo418

Oh, Patriciathomas just loves to stir up trouble!! You can always count on him to put his 1 cent in every day somewhere.

uptheseventhplanet

In TN voters approved having a lottery with proceeds going to fund college scholarships for qualified individuals. Having a large fund of money moves politicians and others to tears because they can't get their hands in it to fund their favorite projects that are not college scholarships. Before you cry yourseld to sleep because lottery funds are not being used to solve every problem maybe you should look at the legislation that created the lottery.

AnGie4

Patricia is a man....in CASE y'all did not know...and a 3k's bitter man. Racist as all git out. Hick Redneck if you will....

sueboo418

I think most of us already knew that AnGie or I did anyways. I don't think I have seen a woman on here post like he does. I think he has no life, or posting comments on here IS his life. ha ha

Antknee

Thank you,visitors to Augusta,for visiting our city.W
e are very thankful for your visit and we welcome you here to Augusta.Have a wonderful,great time here!!!!

karmakills123

"Thank you,visitors to Augusta,for visiting our city.W e are very thankful for your visit and we welcome you here to Augusta.Have a wonderful,great time here!!!!"....And please be sure not to visit Riverwalk in the evenings if you do not wish to be mugged..and please keep your car in a lighted area..however it's a possibility it will be broken into..and please walk in a crowd and never alone on the streets of augusta if you value your life...now have a "blessed" time here.

sueboo418

unfortunately Karma, that goes on everywhere, not just in Augusta.

corgimom

Well, now we know that PT is racist, homophobic, AND anti-Semitic. PT, I don't know if you have looked at Egyptians lately, but they don't have white skin. Whites were not in Egypt back then. Cleopatra wasn't white, she didn't look like Elizabeth Taylor, who was British.

Taylor B

Yeah, now that you mention it... anyone ever seen an unwrapped mummy? No white there...

patriciathomas

You mean white Jews were kept as slaves by black Egyptians? Wow, how will they ever live that down? The poor Jews will be picked on for generations by the mean Egyptians and that will stop them from ever experiencing anything requiring responsibility. They'll never have a chance to live free. I wonder if they've ever been represented by a congressional Jewish caucus or had one elected president. They could be free at last if they did.

Taylor B

Corgi, Elizabeth Taylor is from Mars... I thought everyone knew that

patriciathomas

Didn't Jesse Jackson refer to New York City as "Hymietown"? I wonder if Jesse's Egyptian.

Taylor B

Jesse is from Mars too.

Phish

what????????

christie

ANGIE, talking about racist, calling someone a hick redneck makes you a racist. all git out, oh please you are a racist Angie. what is the world coming to, you try to tell someone not to be a racist and return you show your true colors. geeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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