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Becoming Alabama: Historical society meeting set
BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard For anyone who loves history and is interested in the origins of Alabama, then the next meeting of the Butler County Historical & Genealogical Society (BCHGS) is not to be missed. The guest speaker for BCHGS’s first quarterly meeting of the year is John Jackson from Foley. Jackson’s…
Read MoreMartin Luther King Breakfast
BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard On Monday, Jan. 15, the Butler County Civic League hosted their annual Martin Luther King Freedom Breakfast event at Dunbar Recreation Center. Honorable attendees included Butler County commissioners Greenville Police Chief, Circuit Clerk, Butler County Sheriff, district judges, mayors of Georgiana, McKenzie and Greenville and state representatives Chris Sells and…
Read MoreWoman shot, husband charged
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard On Saturday, Jan. 6 Johnny O’Neal Allen, 46, attempted to kill his estranged wife with a shotgun at her residence on Wagon Wheel Road in Butler County. Sheriff Deputies had received a domestic violence call earlier that evening from the victim who said that Allen was going to come…
Read MoreSupport your local volunteer fire department
By Keith Foster On Jan. 4, the Liberty Volunteer Fire Department as well as Shackleville Fire Department, Greenville Fire Department and Forest Home Fire Department were dispatched to a house fire on Forest Home Lane. Upon arrival the house was fully engulfed with fire. All the departments got together and fought to save as…
Read MoreRitz draws visitors from Australia
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard Louise and Chris McWhinnie, who are from Sydney, Australia, recently visited Greenville this past Thursday evening to study and take pictures at the historic Ritz Theater. She is the Dean of Faculty and Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney and both she and her husband Chris…
Read MoreFire claims house on Forest Home Lane
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard This past Thursday afternoon the Liberty Volunteer Fire Department (LVFD) was alerted to a house fire on Forest Home Lane. Upon arrival they found the house engulfed in flames and set to work to save surrounding structures on the property. Keith Foster, with LVFD, said that several volunteer…
Read MoreChief Lovvorn urges caution
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard According to Greenville Police Chief Justin Lovvorn, officers received reports of at least eight different vehicle break-ins between Dec. 25 and Dec. 29, 2017 around local hotels and a few residences in Greenville. Investigators were able to use evidence found at some of the scenes of the break-ins to…
Read MoreThe gift of blood is the gift of life
BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard They park around town, unassuming, but their mission is great: to save lives. People in Greenville often see blood mobiles in the Camellia City. They make stops at Wal-Mart, Fred’s, and City Hall, but regardless of their location, what they do and why are the real reasons they…
Read MoreNorwood makes a family move
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard David Norwood, the business office manager for Alabama Power in Greenville, will be missed in the community. He has transferred to the Headland Alabama Power office in Henry County by the time of this article. On the career move, Norwood indicated that his family lives in the Headland…
Read MoreAlabama Pioneer
BY DANAN WHIDDON The Greenville Standard We often think of pioneers as people who settled the land hundreds of years ago, or invented some kind of scientific device or theory, but there are many local pioneers in our midst today. One such pioneer is Liza Berrey. Twenty years ago, Berrey was one of the…
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