Area News

Pioneer Electric Cooperative has invested in supporting rural healthcare in Butler and Crenshaw counties through Alabama’s Rural Hospital Investment Tax Credit program. Through the program, Pioneer Electric contributed $20,000 each to Crenshaw Community Hospital in Luverne and Regional Medical Center of Central Alabama in Greenville to support the continued delivery of essential health care services…

Georgiana is getting an incredible economic boost to the tune of an investment of 11 million dollars, yes you heard right. Exit 114 off of interstate I-65 is getting an 8.5 million dollar truck stop, and the same gentleman has purchased the old Food Giant downtown and is introducing the Busy Ant Super Market. The…

Laissez les bons temps rouler: Cajun French for “Let the good times roll,” was definitely the atmosphere this past Saturday, Feb. 21, for the City of Greenville and Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce’s first ever Camellia Gras. The Mardi gras themed celebration began that morning with a lively festival market place and was later followed…

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard     On Tuesday, Feb. 17, a high speed chase involving law enforcement from three counties ended in downtown Greenville with the arrest of Destin Labruce Casey, age 33 of Range. After investigating a shooting, where one man was shot multiple times early that morning in Monroeville around 1:45…

The City of Greenville and the Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce (GACOC) are excited about Camellia Gras, their very own Mardi Gras–style celebration happening this Saturday, Feb. 21, from 11 a.m. 4 p.m. There is an action packed weekend lined up with amazing vendors, tons of fun for the kids, great food, and a parade…

The Sasanqua Garden Club welcomed certified wildlife biologist Frank Boyd to their February meeting on the 11th. A 1976 Auburn University graduate, Boyd has more than 45 years of experience beginning with the United States Forest Service in the southeastern bush country of Alaska and spreading across our country and down to the Caribbean Islands.…

BY RAY VAN COR The Greenville Standard   Meet Greenville native, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jason E. Godwin. Godwin Inter-Service transferred from the U.S. Army Reserves to active duty with the U.S. Air Force as the first actively serving CW5 in USAF history. He is an Advisor to the Commandant at Warrant Officer Training School…

BY JUSTIN MILLER   AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Ala. — Have an amazing jam or cheese straw recipe and want to share it with the world? The Alabama Cottage Food Law certification may be for you. This law allows residents to sell certain nonhazardous food items directly from their homes after passing an approved food safety course…