http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/ Barnwell, SC News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/199ee4daefc473d27e79ca157df540e1.html With Saturday the last day to register to vote in the Nov 4 general election offices in TD Region counties plan Saturday hours to allow signups http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/cc3a384dc890b61eb97bf1ea7afd8cf3.html ALLENDALE The evening light faded in wisps of pink and purple as 16 weary workers stepped from a chromelined charter bus and shuffled over to a line of idling cars waiting to ferry them homeFew among the group offered a wave or a nod of farewell to their fellow travelers They'd be seeing each other again soon enough http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/aeafd2027cab8adff31af39a2ab6e5fa.html BARNWELL 8212; Tubes capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country stoking fears they could get lost or worse stolen by terrorists and turned into dirty bombsFor years truckloads of lowlevel nuclear waste from most of the US were taken to a rural South Carolina landfill There items such as the ricesize radioactive seeds for treating cancer and pencilthin nuclear tubes used in industrial gauges were sealed in concrete and buriedBut a South Carolina law that took effect July 1 ended nearly all disposal of radioactive material at the landfill leaving 36 states with no place to throw out some of the stuff So labs universities hospitals and manufacturers are storing more and more of it on their own property8220;Instead of safely secured in one place it8217;s stored in thousands of places in urban locations all over the United States8221; said Rick Jacobi a nuclear waste consultant and former head of a Texas agency that unsuccessfully tried to create a disposal site for that stateState and federal authorities say the waste is being monitored but they acknowledge it is difficult to track and inspected as little as once every five years Government documents and dozens of Associated Press interviews with nuclear waste generators experts watchdogs and officials show that thousands of these small radioactive items already have been lost and that worries are growing http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/f811dcc49005736223489abedca743a7.html BARNWELL Tubes capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country stoking fears they could get lost or worse stolen by terrorists and turned into dirty bombsFor years truckloads of lowlevel nuclear waste from most of the US were taken to a rural South Carolina landfill There items such as the ricesize radioactive seeds for treating cancer and pencilthin nuclear tubes used in industrial gauges were sealed in concrete and buried http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/8fc7d097a8593b80ad80ef7d96e2a385.html The Orangeburg County Economic Development Commission named Rainer Mayer managing director of Mayer World Group parent company of Orangeburgs Mayer Industries Inc as Orangeburg County Economic Development Ambassador of the Year http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/1b75597b339d2ff725217b6360237cd2.html The Greater Edisto Chapter of the American Red Cross is a traditional beacon of help and hope during a disaster but the organization is now looking for its own helping hand http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/e35d8baee54e3637b9e838d7a3a9179e.html Mark Clifford told his team not to think about the last time the Stratford Knights visited Beaufort High School but Blake Gruel didn't have any trouble recalling the score from 2003 two years before he wore an Eagles uniform http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/barnwell/content/e8443c2dcdfd04d9d814a00c7a1135fb.html Orangeburg Bamberg Barnwell and Allendale counties had doubledigit unemployment rates for August and Calhoun wasnt far back