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If you’ve been out and about in Greenville, you have probably noticed the Camellia japonica bushes are beginning to bloom. The beauty featured today is called the Pink Empress Camellia. This bloom is located on the bush between Richard Branum and Resa Bates houses on East Commerce Street, near City Hall. The Camellia japonica ‘Empress’,…

BY CARTER E. ANTHONY   One rainy afternoon, Richie and I were playing cards on the floor in the living room.  Richie got up and told me to lie there as if I were dead. Richie’s maternal grandmother, Mrs. Zula Gantt, lived with the Hartleys. She was a sweet lady and we always had fun…

BY CARTER E. ANTHONY   After my first Little League baseball practice in my new hometown of Greenville, Alabama, with Coach O.G. Holley and a baseball team of 12 boys, age 12 and under, Richie Hartley asked me to go home with him. It was an easy decision. I was anxious to get out and…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   The Butler County Sheriff’s Posse (BCSP) recently gave a significant and sizeable Christmas gift to the Butler County Children’s Advocacy Center, also known as Safe Harbor of Greenville. Claire Corley, executive director and outreach coordinator of Safe Harbor, said, “This is such a blessing at this time of…

BY JEFF HELMS   The Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation (AFAF) is accepting applications through Jan. 15 from farmers who suffered losses related to Hurricane Zeta. AFAF and Alabama Farmers Federation President Jimmy Parnell said the Foundation established a Hurricane Relief Fund in response to calls from farmers and businesses who wanted to help their neighbors.…

Once, it was doubted to happen. COVID-19 had everything locked down and it seemed unsure that it wouldn’t cancel another of Butler County’s main annual events. Though not the usual packed out crowd, there was a large turnout of young and old alike to see the parade entries and enjoy the festivities at Greenville’s Christmas…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   On Wednesday, Dec. 9, around 2 p.m. a two vehicle wreck in the northbound lane of U.S. Interstate 65 at the 117 mile marker in Butler County briefly caused the shutdown of both north and south lanes for an emergency Life Flight. The crash involved one vehicle running…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   Tuesday, Dec. 8, at around 8 p.m. a general fire alarm was sent out by E911 for a mobile home fire located at 4029 Mobile Highway. Butler County Sheriff Danny Bond said the home was occupied by a man known as Samuel Adams, age 72, at the time…