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  Lynch TORI J. NORRIS | The Greenville Standard For one week at the University of Alabama, Ashley Lynch was a member of a mock government at Alabama Girls State where she learned many things about the government, and herself. Sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, the first Girls State was held in Alabama in 1942…

    ARTICLE SUBMITTED June 11 turned out to be a great day for catching some catfish. It was complete with beautiful although rather warm weather. The annual event was a great success with 36 young anglers. The fish were really hungry and everyone left with a good stringer of fish. After the fun down by…

TORI J. NORRIS | The Greenville Standard McKenzie School 1994 alumnus Miles Brown will be the next principal for McKenzie School following the retirement of Mike Gunter. Brown was approved to take over the role of principal at McKenzie at last week’s Butler County School System Board meeting. For the past three years, Brown has served…

NICOLE NORRIS | The Greenville Standard Lajon Pier Pate of Georgiana has been arrested for drug trafficking. According to River Falls Police Department Pate ran a stop sign at the intersection of Highway 55 and Highway 84. After attempting to stop Pate, Officer Michael Bishop initiated a vehicle pursuit. Once officers were able to stop the…

NICOLE NORRIS | The Greenville Standard Between the hours of 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. on June 12 Georgiana Officer John Bass was doing a building check at Georgiana School when he noticed two flat screen televisions and 20 Chromebook laptops piled outside of the school. Before Officer Bass could make contact with suspects inside of…

MOLLIE S. WATERS | The Greenville Standard On June 11, vandals targeted the Greenville Butler County Library and the Greenville Pavilion. A few days later, the Greenville Police Department made multiple arrests for that crime. According to Capt. Justin Lovvorn, Criminal Investigation District Commander, several GPD personnel put in many long hours over multiple days in…

NICOLE NORRIS | The Greenville Standard According to Chief David Scruggs of Georgiana Police Department, Tashaun Mack, 26, will be spending his birthday in the Butler County Jail. Mack was arrested last Thursday and charged with third-degree burglary, third-degree theft of property and criminal mischief. While on routine patrol Officer Greg Wepzel heard an alarm going…