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Cybersecurity and other programs to benefit from Metallica money

Editor’s note: Last week, ABD reported that heavy metal rockers Metallica would present $100,000 to Aiken Tech through their foundation. The college is one of 11 that will receive funding from the Metallica Scholarship Initiative, through the band’s charitable foundation, All Within My Hands. It is the first time a South Carolina college has been included. Dana Lynn McIntyre’s story takes a closer look at how the investment will benefit students and the workplace. Students and the CSRA workplace will be the beneficiaries after the internationally known heavy metal band,

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Dana Lynn McIntyre August 9, 2023 No Comments
B2B Podcasting

Patrick Reynolds: What is the applicant pool like for Cross Link Consulting?

Meaningful work means a lot. Let’s take a look back at May’s Employment Recruitment & Retention Panel discussion from ABD’s Conference and Expo, as Patrick Reynolds, CEO of Cross Link Consulting, discusses the type of work employees want to be involved in. If you’d like to read more quality content, please consider supporting ABD’s mission by clicking here.

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Patrick Reynolds August 9, 2023 No Comments
B2B Podcasting

Take a bite out of this latest Biz Bits

A digital channel will soon feature Aiken restaurant – The Feed Sack. Mike Petchenik explains in this edition of Biz Bits. If you’d like to read more quality content, please consider supporting ABD’s mission by clicking here.

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Mike Petchenik August 9, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local Vietnamese café celebrates first anniversary

When Lily Nguyen opened a café in Augusta last summer, she already had a loyal customer base who knew her from The Augusta Market, but business has increased exponentially ever since, thanks to its proximity to Augusta University and the downtown medical district. Nguyen owns Lily Coffee, Tea & Bread located at 1378 Laney Walker Blvd., Suite 101, which she opened on Aug. 1, 2022. The shop was formerly occupied by Humanitree House. Nguyen also sells boxes of Vietnamese coffee in her shop and provides them to Asian markets, including

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Josh Heath August 8, 2023 No Comments
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Will voters spare half a cent for new JBA?

The die is cast and the information blitzkrieg is underway as the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority touts the benefits of a new James Brown Arena. On Nov. 7, Richmond County voters are being asked to go to the polls and vote in favor of a referendum creating a half-cent sales tax to pay for the project. SB230 creating the Coliseum Special Local Option Sales Tax, or C-SPLOST was approved by the Georgia Legislature during the 2023 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. Now, the onus is

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Dana Lynn McIntyre August 8, 2023 No Comments
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Bumpers, bells, and buzzes coming soon to the CSRA

If you are a pinball wizard or grew up with Pac-Man or Donkey Kong video games, get ready for social gaming paradise. Radioactive Pinball Arcade will celebrate its Grand Opening on August 26th at 113 Laurens St., Ste 103, in Aiken. Owners, Eric and Erin Edwards are in the midst of working hard to make the arcade a special place to socialize and reconnect with some of the pinball machines and gameplay of your past. Let’s start with the heavy lifting and where 42 pinball machines and 30 arcade games

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Mitzi Oxford August 8, 2023 No Comments
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Oppenheimer: Lessons Learned from a Summer Blockbuster

This past weekend, my wife and I escaped the summer heat for a few hours and went to see the highly anticipated summer blockbuster movie, “Oppenheimer.” I had been anxiously anticipating seeing this movie since I had seen a preview months ago, and then reading reviews and interacting with others who had seen the movie only heightened my anticipation. Some of my anticipations came from my interest in how a great scientific feat is accomplished, as the movie chronicles, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s time leading the Los Alamos Laboratory efforts, otherwise

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Dr. Rick Franza August 8, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Ongoing opportunities for employment

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a series of stories about the mega-hiring event hosted by the City of Augusta. For the second week, job seekers have a target-rich environment this Thursday at the Augusta Municipal Building. The City of Augusta is holding the second of three sessions of a mega-hiring event on August 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will be in the Linda Beazley Room in the Municipal Building at 535 Telfair Street. This event will focus on service departments such as Augusta Utilities, Engineering,

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Dana Lynn McIntyre August 7, 2023 No Comments
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