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    BRUCE BRANUM/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD “We give back to the public schools,” said Jimmy Black, Director of Operations for the Southeast Alabama Gas District (SEAGD), after he presented Butler County School Superintendent Amy Bryan with a check for $5804 to be used by the school system last Friday. “There are 14 cities that own…

NICOLE NORRIS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office needs the publics’ help in solving a double homicide. On Feb. 3 the LCSO received a call of shots fired in the area of Mosses Public Housing at 9:28 p.m. Deputies responded to the scene where they observed a subject slumped over the steering wheel of…

    BRUCE BRANUM/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD A recent parolee, Wilie Fred Jenkins who was supposed to be serving a life sentence, has committed criminal felony crimes in Butler and Lowndes counties and has been arrested for those acts. Butler County Sheriff Kenny Harden said, “On Feb. 1, we received a call in reference to a…

NICOLE NORIS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Last Monday night the Greenville City Council met to discuss resolution 2017-04. If approved this resolution would allow the mayor to enter into a contract with Robert W. Bishop to purchase property adjacent to the Best Western. The amount of the property is not to exceed $150,000. The property was appraised…

MOLLIE S. WATERS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Walter Parmer was the guest speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Butler County Historical Society (BCHS) on Sunday. His lecture topic was “Greenville’s Early Churches.” Parmer said Greenville’s earliest church gatherings occurred right outside of Fort Dale in the 1810s and 1820s. “First the Baptists, then the Methodists began…

NICOLE NORRIS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Georgiana resident Edrick Lamont Montgomery, 43, was killed when the 1995 Nissan he was driving left the roadway, struck a drainage pipe and overturned. The wreck occurred on Friday afternoon around 4:40 p.m. on Conecuh County 29, seven miles south of Evergreen. Montgomery, who was not using a seat belt, was…

NICOLE NORRIS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Last Saturday the Greenville Police Department received a call from Fred’s Super Dollar Store in reference to shop lifting. When officers arrived, they began talking with employees which led them to 22-year-old Frank Williams of Birmingham. Officers ran the tag on the 2013 Kia Forte Williams was driving and it came…

    JENNIFER CLONTZ/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Do you have outstanding warrants in Greenville? Now is the time to take care of them. The Greenville Police Department is hosting the annual Warrant Amnesty Program. Greenville Police Department Chief Justin Lovvorne and Lieutenant Danny Bond have slated Feb. 1 through March 31 as a Warrant Amnesty period.…

TORI J. NORRIS/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD Saturday night, the Georgiana community came together for their fourth annual unity dinner at R.L. Austin Gymnasium. This event, coordinated by Candace Powell, began for the purpose of building the bridge between the school and the community. “I wanted to increase unity and togetherness among all Georgiana community members, as…

    BRUCE BRANUM/THE GREENVILLE STANDARD The recent storms systems which rolled through the southeastern states causing tornadoes, wind damage and at least 20 deaths in Mississippi and Georgia had its effect on many parts of Butler County Saturday and Sunday. Though no tornadoes were reported in the county, damaging winds caused many trees to…