Area News

MOLLIE WATERS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD The Butler County Historical and Genealogical Society (BCHGS) is turning its October meeting into a field trip filled with wonderful opportunities for participants to visit some of the area’s most fascinating and historical sites. The trip is scheduled for October 28, and it will take participants along the Old Federal Road…

BRUCE BRANUM/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD The Alabama National Guard recently commemorated the 100 year anniversary of the 167th Infantry Regiment’s deployment to WWI on August 28 by dedicating a bronze sculpture at Union Station in Montgomery. 3,677 Alabama soldiers departed that day by train from Union Station. 616 would not return and more than 1000 were…

JEANNE CALLEN/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD The weekend of September 16, the Greenville Kiwanis Club (GKC) has two exciting fundraising events planned including Jessica Procter, the newly crowned Miss Alabama who will be in Greenville at the Ritz Theater that Sunday to emcee the Miss Camellia Pageant. Procter’s talent is singing and she is slated to entertain…

 CLAY BRANUM/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Georgiana High School received a very special guest this past Thursday. Dr. Fairest Hill came to south Butler country to speak on positive parenting skills and keys to living a better life. Dr. Hill was the drummer for a hit 70’s and 80’s band named “The Gap Band”. Many readers may…

APRIL RICHEY/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD “Saving one animal won’t change the world, but it will change the world for that one animal” are words that the men and women of the Greenville Animal Shelter live by. For some people their pets are just as much a part of their family as their own children. So when…

TORI J. NORRIS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Over a hundred community members came together last Thursday to have dinner and learn of Ken Kilpatrick’s dream of Hope Afield. Ken and his wife Jan have a history of working with at-risk-youth and their caregivers. They recently moved to the home of Jan’s late parents, Woodrow and Edna Butts,…

SUBMITTED Sean Dietrich loves to write. In 2014, he decided to share his thoughts through “Sean of the South,” an online blog, writing each day of ordinary people and his favorite things about southern living. Not only is the blog’s popularity growing, so are his appearances in small towns across the South, including upcoming appearances…