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Panel downgrades drought for much of S.C.

...level.In some areas, crops were bountiful.Marion Rizer, the soil and water conservation district commissioner in Colleton County said the summer rainfall "was enough to produce the best corn crop I've ever harvested since I started farming...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-09-27/panel-downgrades-drought-much
SC deputy admits tipping off drug dealers

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A former Colleton County Sheriff's deputy has pleaded guilty to tipping a...statements to FBI agents during a drug investigation in Colleton County. Prosecutors say agents were investigating drug dealers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-10-31/sc-deputy-admits-tipping-drug
100 turkeys die in SC fire

WALTERBORO, S.C. - Colleton County authorities say 100 young turkeys died when fire broke out...were able to prevent a nearby propane tank from exploding.Colleton County Fire Rescue Chief Barry McRoy says nine fire trucks and 28...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-12-06/100-turkeys-die-sc-fire
ATV wreck kills SC girl, 12

...died after a wreck on an all-terrain vehicle in Colleton County.The Post and Courier of Charleston reported rescue...Hendersonville shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday.Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy says witnesses...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-01-03/atv-wreck-kills-sc-girl-12
Ga. woman dies in crash on way to husband's West Point burial

...the driver and injuring three passengers, who were treated for minor injuries, Jones said.Jones said only the Colleton County coroner could identify the driver, but Arlie McNeill of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home in Brunswick said he had...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-11-23/ga-woman-dies-crash-way-husb
3 Augusta fire chief candidates named

...management at Oklahoma State University, said his boss, Colleton County (S.C.) Fire-Rescue Chief Barry McRoy ."He's...Carolina Fire-Rescue EMS Journal.Greene helped rural Colleton County, situated between Beaufort and Charleston, to merge...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2011-12-19/3-augusta-fire-chief-can
Augusta fire chief interviews begin

...presently the assistant chief in Colleton County, S.C., will meet with Augusta...Friday and James on Tuesday.In Colleton County, a rural exurb of Charleston...states. At 1,054 square miles, Colleton County is more than three times as large...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-01-11/augusta-fire-chief-inter
First Augusta fire chief candidate interviews

...had never dealt with unions in Colleton County, S.C., where he has been...with volunteer firefighters in Colleton County, Greene said it would be difficult...Physical Ability Test, although Colleton County had abandoned the test on the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-01-12/first-augusta-fire-chief
Chris James draws on experience in interview for Augusta fire chief job

...Jones, who interviewed Fri day. Masters said the union did prefer that David Greene, the assistant fire chief in Colleton County, S.C., who interviewed Thursday, be excluded from consideration."Whatever the commission decides," Masters...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-01-17/chris-james-draws-experi
Animal rights activists' drone shot down at shooting preserve

...trees in the vicinity of the scheduled pigeon shoot, someone shot it.According to a report the group filed with the Colleton County Sheriff's office, damages totaled about $300. As of last week, when I checked with the department's records...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/rob-pavey/2012-03-10/animal-rights-