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                                                   Special to the Standard    Area residents will have an opportunity to learn more about Greenville’s history this October during the Greenville Historic Cemetery Walking Tours. Each Saturday night at…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   Alabama State University Alum and Florida A&M University College of Law graduate Brandon Price-Crum, along with the Butler County Concerned Citizens will launch the Butler County Junior Law Academy. The program will take place on four consecutive Saturdays, starting Sept. 8 at the Butler County Courthouse Annex located…

  The Old Claiborne Pilgrimage, scheduled for Oct. 13-14, 2018, promises a unique glimpse into the settlement of the forgotten town of Claiborne and of Monroe County, which was founded four years before the State of Alabama. “Claiborne’s ferries, steamboats, and bustling commercial center made it our nation’s gateway to the “old southwest” in the…

BY JEANNE K. CALLEN The Greenville Standard   On Saturday, Sept. 22, the Greenville Kiwanis Club will host the annual Miss Butler County Fair Pageant at the historic Ritz Theater in beautiful downtown Greenville. The pageant invites young ladies from infancy through 18 years of age to join and compete in this fun pageant honoring…

   Special to The Standard                                             The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, a weekly literature and music program based in Oxford, Miss., has been picked up for broadcast on Alabama Public Radio (APR) beginning Saturday, Sept. 1. APR will air the show on radio and online Saturday nights at 9 pm. The one-hour broadcast will continue to…

BY MOLLIE S. WATERS                                  The Greenville Standard   In 1775, Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general by the Second Continental Congress. Almost 100 years later in 1873, the first postcards were issued in the United States. Since that time, many people have collected postcards, and those people are called deltiologists. One man who…

BY SCOTTIE BROWN The Greenville Standard   While many people her age were seeking to establish their careers following graduating college, Emily Lincoln, former Fort Dale Academy student, spent the last 11 months traveling to 11 different countries to spread the word of God. ‘Adventures in Missions’ is a Christian missions organization, which seeks to…

BY SCOTTIE BROWN The Greenville Standard   Distinguished Young Women has historically been a program unlike any other for rising seniors giving over $1.5 billion dollars in scholarships at the national-level annually. Georgiana High School senior Grayson Edwards was named this year’s Distinguished Young Woman of Butler County. Edwards said seniors who had participated in…

Special to The Standard                                                            The Green Leaf Grill in Mentone won Bama’s Best Catfish Contest for 2018. From left are Catfish Journal editor Mike McCall, restaurant…

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church will be  celebrating its 130th Homecoming Celebration on Sunday, Aug. 19. Services will begin at 10:30 a.m. with Minister of Music, Caleb Bell leading in worship. The message will be brought by Rev. Hiram Johnson, LCSW. He is the son of the late C.W. & Jimmie Sue Ledbetter Johnson of the…