The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new program to assist hog producers who sold hogs through a negotiated sale during the period in which these producers faced the greatest reduction in market prices due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program (SMHPP) is part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative and…

Author Toni Morrison’s mother, Ella Ramah Willis, was born in Greenville, and moved with her parents, Ardelia and John Solomon Willis, to Ohio in 1910 as part of the great northern migration. Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, would later go on to become the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.…

BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard   The Butler County Historical and Genealogical Society (BCHGS) held its quarterly meeting on Sunday at the Greenville-Butler County Public Library. The speaker for the meeting was Tom Bailey, author of “The Five Capitals of Alabama: The Story of Alabama’s Capital Cities from St. Stephens to Montgomery.” The…

By Frances Lowery Garner   Most every household owned a sausage grinder (not just for sausage) but this was the main use of it during the winter months. It would be fastened to a table top with a tube attachment on the end of the grinder and the casings would be rolled onto it. As…