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OLE STUFF AND SUCH Childhood memories of Frances: Part II
By Frances Lowery Garner I would like to give teenagers today some of the same advice my parents passed on to me. Learn to work and always be honest. If you are willing to work you will always manage to earn your keep and being honest will keep you out of trouble. Home remedies…
Read MoreBOE votes for new GHS stadium
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard The Butler County Board of Education, at a special called meeting Thursday, Sept. 2, voted to build a complete new stadium at Greenville High School (GHS). Other items on the agenda included a personnel report with recommendations of hires and the first budget hearing for the upcoming fiscal…
Read MoreBCBS to cover third COVID shot
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama members who are moderately to severely immunocompromised will not have to pay for their third dose of the FDA authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. Blue Cross members on individual, Medicare and almost all employer health plans will be able to receive an FDA-authorized and CDC-recommended COVID-19 vaccine third dose…
Read MoreOLE STUFF AND SUCH: PART 1 Childhood memories of FrancesI
By Frances Garner I was born in Butler County in the Pigeon Creek community at home, delivered by a country doctor, the Dr. R.L. Jernigan who made house calls in the year 1937. I cannot remember the depression years but heard many accounts of the hard times my parents experienced during those years. We…
Read MoreDon’t forget your pets’ rabies shots
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard It’s that time of year when rabies becomes more prevalent among wild animals and can be transferred to domestic pets. County animal shelters exist under the state rabies laws as a public health service so that there is a place for stray and unwanted pets to go to.…
Read MoreGET OUT THERE: Happy Birthday to the NPS
What do the national parks mean to you? Have you visited one? Such magnificent beauty and tranquility and violence and tenderness exist there in those wondrous places. Wallace Stegner, a western historian, wrote in 1983, “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather…
Read MoreMurder on Second Street
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard Ladon Betton, 32, was murdered, Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 17, by a single gunshot wound. According to Greenville Police Chief Justin Lovorrn, Jevarios Carter, 24, has been arrested and confessed to the murder. In a press release, Lovorrn stated, “The Greenville Police Department responded to a call of an…
Read MoreSafe Harbor Summer Social Aug. 28
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard Preparations are nearing completion for the first Summer Social event benefitting Safe Harbor, The Butler County Children’s Advocacy Center (BCCAC). The special event will be held at Cambrian Ridge on Saturday, Aug. 28, and will include an evening of great food, live music performed by Two Lane Hi-Way,…
Read MoreDISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN SELECTED
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard The 2022 Distinguished Young Women of Butler & Lowndes County Scholarship Program were selected Saturday, Aug. 21 at the historic Ritz Theater in downtown Greenville. Mary Virginia Meadows was chosen to represent Butler County and Abigail Gluschick will represent Lowndes County at the state program in January 2022.…
Read MoreUSDA offers animal loss assistance
USDA has announced it is to provide pandemic assistance to livestock producers for animal losses. The farm service agency began taking applications for the Indemnity Program, July 20 and will continue through Sept. 17. The announcement is part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative. Livestock and poultry producers who suffered losses during the pandemic…
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