Area News

BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard   “The Greenville Standard” has been featuring prominent Alabama women all March in honor of Women’s History Month. This week’s featured Alabamian is Lurleen B. Wallace, who was inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, sponsored by Judson College, in 1972. Most people will recognize Lurleen B.…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   Sunday, March 21, proved to be a unique day in the annals of manhunts for the Butler County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). A car chase involving an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency State Trooper led to a manhunt, complete with tracking dogs, a shifty felon, and an eventual treeing with…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   On Wednesday morning, March 17, a Koch Foods 18-wheeler transporting over 3,000 chickens for processing overturned on McKenzie Grade Road. The truck was headed north on McKenzie Grade Road when the right front tire left the pavement as it exited the last curve before Halso Mill Road. The…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   Former Butler County juvenile probation officer Terry Van Lewis, 65, of Montgomery, was charged with an additional sex crime on Monday, March 9, by a Butler County grand jury. Lewis was originally indicted by a Butler County grand jury in 2019 for a charge of first-degree rape and…

BY CARTER E. ANTHONY   At the turn of the New Year, our senior year and our last semester in high school, Richie and I decided we needed a senior trip after school. As opposed to seniors today, the only cruise we were aware of was the Saturday night trip up and down Commerce Street…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   On Friday, March 12, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office deputies with the addition of the Greenville Police Department (GPD) Special Response Team (SRT) and Drug Task Force members conducted a raid at 541 Oakwood Street in Georgiana. According to Butler County Sheriff Danny Bond, a tip was given…

BY ANNIE CRENSHAW   People in many countries celebrate this Irish patron saint’s designated day on March 17th. They wear green, play Celtic music, enjoy Irish dances, consume Irish food and beverages, and (“B.C.” or before Covid) participate in crowded, colorful Irish heritage parades. St. Patrick – who was actually British, and not Irish –…

It’s not often you find a wagon train rolling down a country road, but this past Saturday, March 13, a group of seven wagons rolled out of a hayfield in the Butler County community of Forest Home on their way to their next stop in in the community of Braggs in Lowndes County. They began…

BY CARTER E. ANTHONY   After the train ride from Chicago, we were picked up in Milwaukee by Port Washington students and their parents. It all was a grand greeting and we were soon settling in for the week with our adopted families. The roads were clear but there were several feet of snow everywhere.…