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Roby: Honor Veterans in Your Hometown
Roby: Honor Veterans in Your Hometown In 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year, the armistice ending World War I was signed. Originally known as Armistice Day, Congress later passed and President Dwight Eisenhower signed a resolution officially designating Nov. 11 as Veterans Day. Now,…
Read MoreBirthday Bash for Georgiana Centenarians
BRUCE BRANUM The Standard Two centenarians recently were honored with a birthday celebration and proclamations from the cities of Georgiana and Greenville this past Thursday, Oct. 2 at Georgiana Health and Rehabilitation (GHR). Mary Walton and Willie Savage, both residents at the facility, recently turned 108 and 102 years old respectively. Both Walton and…
Read MoreOperation Christmas Child
BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard Although Christmas is still many weeks away, it is time for those who are interested in taking part in Operation Christmas Child (OCC) to get their shoeboxes filled with goodies in order to ship them to underserved children in developing countries across the world. According to the…
Read MoreBank employee charged with theft
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard Mershell Campbell, 59 and a Greenville native, who was an employee of Community Neighbor Bank (CNB), was arrested on Oct. 31 and charged with first-degree theft of property. She was an employee of CNB for approximately four years. According to Greenville Police Department Lieutenant Joe Disney, Campbell managed…
Read More2 arrested in rape of 11 year old girl
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard Two brothers, Kenquaundrez Scarver, 19, and Travius Scarver, 20, were arrested on Oct. 26 and charged with two counts of Rape-Second. Greenville Police Department Lieutenant Joe Disney said the department was contacted by DHR after the child’s mother reported a possible crime. After a thorough investigation and forensic…
Read MoreSweet Tea Trio to perform
BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard The Greenville Area Arts Council’s (GAAC) season is now in full swing, and patrons will not want to miss the next performance in the four-show season. According to GAAC Director Nancy Idland, the second group to perform this season is the all-female group Sweet Tea Trio. “Concert…
Read More1916 The Deployment of the National Guard on the Mexican Border
By Nimro d T. Frazer Author of Send the Alabamians: World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division It was crisp, clean, invigorating weather in Montgomery. A chill was in the air on October 22, 1916. Six trains of wooden railroad cars pulled by steam engines waited in the cavernous and smoke filled train shed…
Read MoreUDC to place markers
BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard The Little Sorrel Chapter 2368 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) will hold a grave marking ceremony on November 5 at 2 p.m. at Bullock Community Cemetery in Crenshaw County. According to Little Sorrel Chapter President Susan Schofield, headstones will be placed on several graves in…
Read MoreDouble homicide on Airport Road
BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard In an apparent double homicide, two local men were slain in a vehicle by gunshots sometime early Wednesday morning near the Lighthouse Pentecostal Church on Airport Road. At around 9 a.m. Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to the scene where they found the bodies of the men in a Ford…
Read MoreOld Time Farm Day set for Saturday
BY MOLLIE S. WATERS The Greenville Standard In 2005 when retired teacher Carey Thompson decided to create an Old Time Farm Day (OTFD) for students to learn about life in Alabama’s bygone days, he could never have envisioned that twelve years later it would still be going strong, for this Saturday the annual event…
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