The Aiken Standard’s 2017 Person of the Year isn’t a well-known public figure. She isn’t a high-profile activist in the community, an elected official or an executive in a big company.

When he jumped to his death from the Bay Bridge last week, Paul Titchener was described as a “person of interest ... television show called “High Tech Heroes”” (See goo.gl/hyiBmF).

Person, she said, understood her students in a way that was different from other teachers. “She would treat you as an equal, but she would also hold you to a really high standard,” said ...