Bruce Branum

5 days ago | thegreenvillestandard.com | Bruce Branum

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard George D. H. McMillan, who served as Lt. Governor of Alabama and was a Greenville native died, April 18 in Birmingham during back surgery. McMillan was born Oct. 11, 1943, in Greenville, to George and Jean Autrey McMillan. After high school, he attended Auburn University. While at Auburn, he developed a long friendship with then future Gov. Kay Ivey.

3 weeks ago | thegreenvillestandard.com | Bruce Branum

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard This wildflower pictured is wild spiderwort, most likely Virginia Spiderwort. Spiderwort was originally discovered by John Tradescant, the British plant explorer who came to America early and became very famous for the exotic plants of the New World that he took back home. The website www.americanmeadows.com describes the wildflower as “A native treasure found in woodlands and open fields, Wild Spiderwort has light purple flowers with a unique look.

1 month ago | thegreenvillestandard.com | Bruce Branum

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard It’s Sunshine Week, a week to celebrate freedom of information laws in every state. It also celebrates the good efforts of government advocates and journalists to enlist those laws in the search for information we need as self-governing citizens. Sunshine Sunday began in Florida in 2002, led by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. National Sunshine Week was launched in 2005, thanks to the hard work of the American Society of News Editors (ASNE).

1 month ago | thegreenvillestandard.com | Bruce Branum

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard Season 42 of See You at the Ritz came to a close Thursday evening, Feb. 27, to a mostly packed historic Ritz Theater in downtown Greenville. Greenville Area Arts Council Director Nancy Idland began the night by thanking every one who helped make Season 42 another great one. “Many may not realize how much of a visionary Roberta Gamble was,” said Idland.

2 months ago | thegreenvillestandard.com | Bruce Branum

BY BRUCE BRANUM The Greenville Standard The Alabama Community College System (ACCS) recently released a report by Lightcast, a global leader in labor market analytics, which indicate LBW Community College (LBWCC) and Reid State Technical College (RSTC) have major effects upon area economies. The report indicated LBWCC students and alumni contributed $60.8 million to the college’s service area economy. It is an amount equal to one out of every 64 jobs.