Area News

CECIL FOLDS | The Greenville Standard The Butler County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments held its monthly meeting at the Butler County Emergency Management Agency building with a great group of firemen and several guest speakers. After the meeting was called to order by President Keith Foster, Daniel Day with Alabama Association of Volunteer Fire…

TORI J. NORRIS | The Greenville Standard Fish is an excellent source of protein, vitamins and minerals and are believed to provide protection from heart disease. However, fish can become unhealthy to eat based on environmental health hazards. Each year the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) annually distributes fish consumption advisories based on data…

MOLLIE S. WATERS | The Greenville Standard For most area students, summer is a time for relaxing and enjoying some time off from schoolwork but two local children have decided to use part of their vacation time to help others less fortunate than themselves. Sam Judah McLendon, age 8, and Wynn Lowery, age 7, are…

NICOLE NORRIS | The Greenville Standard The City of Greenville is now responsible for the repair, maintenance and lighting of Jameson Lane. Last Monday night the city council voted to accept Jameson Lane as a road. City Clerk, Sue Arnold, has been appointed as Elections Manager and Absentee Ballot Manager for the 2016 municipal election.…

NICOLE NORRIS | The Greenville Standard At approximately 3:25 a.m. Monday morning, 19-year-old Hunter Kyle Gaston of McKenzie was killed when the 2001 Ford F-150 he was driving left the roadway and overturned. Gaston, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. An unnamed passenger was…

NICOLE NORRIS | The Greenville Standard Early this morning at approximately 5 a.m. the Greenville Police Department responded to a shots fired call on South Street. Once on the scene officers discovered a 36-year-old male with non-life-threatening injuries. According to GPD, the victim, who has not been identified, was treated and transported to Baptist Hospital…

Phil Sanderson wrote a fictional near-future action thriller, 2018: An Uncivil War, in 2013 that predicted a terror event so devastating the media described it as “the second-worst (terror event) in the history of the United States. The fictional event occurred Feb. 20, 2016 in the novel; slightly less than four months prior to the…

  Attorney General Luther Strange announced Tuesday Alabama’s participation in an interrelated series of settlements with Volkswagen AG and its Audi and Porsche affiliates arising from Volkswagen’s violations of state consumer protection laws and emissions standards. As part of the settlements, some of which are still subject to court approval, Alabama owners of certain 2.0 liter,…