Area News

Friends are to be made at the Butler County Farmers’ Market (BCFM). Word was spread recently that local farmer and vendor at the BCFM, Kenneth Royster, had suffered a stroke. Debbie and Scott Deiderich asked Bobby Odom Royster, Kenneth’s wife, if they could come help gather vegetables. Bobby said, “We were blessed when they came…

By Ray Van Cor The Greenville Standard   If I said to you, “fireworks, music, multiple vendors, barbeque, hamburgers, hotdogs and a racecar,” one would think a racetrack celebration, right? You would be wrong. It’s the Georgiana Opry House Fourth of July Celebration being held right downtown in beautiful Georgiana. Opry House owner, Tracy Eason,…

Blood donations have declined and blood usage at local hospitals has increased, causing blood shortages across Alabama. LifeSouth Community Blood Center surges the community to donate now. Summer is a difficult time for blood donations, and LifeSouth reports there is an emergencyneed for blood to help patients in local hospitals. Our local hospitals rely on…

The City of Greenville presents its 20th annual Celebrate America Fireworks Show – July 4th at 8:30 p.m. The display will take place in its normal spot just below Tiger Stadium (located behind Greenville Elementary School). Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Tracy Salter, says the stadium will be open to the public for…

Walter  R. Parmer is pleased to announce that his family history book, Wagon Train Friends and Relatives, has been published. The book is a 400 year history of migration of the Palmer, Parmer, Rhodes, Waller, Bolling and related families from the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia to South Central Alabama, to the Pacific West…

BY BRUCE BRANUM   June Jam at the historic Ritz Theater in Greenville is set for Thursday, June 27, and will feature up to 10 local artists and as special guest from Sweden, Edward Johansson. There will be a silent auction at 6 p.m. to benefit the Roberta Gamble Art Scholarship. Greenville Arts Council Director…

These yellowish-orange wildflowers can be found in the front yard of Eddie and Carol Pope on Oak Street in Greenville. Behind them can be seen zinnias and buttons. If you take a drive through the countryside you can find many more varieties. (Bruce Branum | The Standard)

API has launched a website dedicated to getting information to Alabama parents about the CHOOSE Act (Alabama’s universal school choice program that was passed and signed in March 2024) and its implementation. We will be using that platform, in concert with our API website https://alabamapolicy.org, to be sure that Alabama families have the most up…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard   These small bees, pictured above, were quite busy this past Sunday morning collecting pollen from a sunflower to return to their hive. According to www.pollinator.org, “Without the actions of pollinators, agricultural economies, our food supply, and surrounding landscapes would collapse. Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small…