From the monthly archives: February 2011
Vice President Joe Biden (center) is pictured with mayors during a Black History Month reception at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. Eutaw Mayor Raymond Steele is shown to far right. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann). Vice President Joseph Biden and Dr. Jill Biden welcomed over 120 elected African American officials and their [...]
Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches powerful prophetic sermon on Jimmie Lee Jackson Day By John Zippert Co-Publisher Rev. Jeremiah Wright, retired pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago, the congregation attended by President Barack Obama when he lived in Chicago, delivered a powerful prophetic sermon to commemorate Jimmie Lee Jackson Day in Marion, [...]
Board member Leo Branch is presenting an award to teacher Regina Harmon. Awards will be presented on a monthly basis to teachers in every school in the system. The awardees will be selected by their peers as the teacher who made the biggest difference in their particular school during the preceeding month. Harmon was the [...]
Several months ago District Attorney Michael Jackson extracted a guilty plea from James Bonard Fowler, the killer of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Fowler pleaded guilty on November 15, 2010 to a lesser charge in the shooting death of Jackson. He subsequently was sentenced to serve 6 months in jail, not in Perry County where the brutal [...]
Eutaw Mayor Raymond Steele introduces Senator Richard Shelby at Eutaw Town Hall meeting Between 15 and 20 people gathered at the Eutaw City Hall on Saturday, February 12th to listen to and question U.S. Senator Richard Shelby. The main focus of Shelby’s message was the debt that the United States had incurred. According to Shelby, [...]
In a meeting which lasted more than two hours, the Greene County Commission took several steps to ensure continued financial stability but were unable to get a majority on who was to be county attorney. They unanimously agreed on the creation of a Financial Review Board charged with conducting detailed reviews of cash receipts and [...]
The Greene County Children’s Policy Council after-school tutorial students have been engaged in a project collecting the stories of local residents who participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Greene County. The students will pay tribute to selected Greene County Trailblazers at a program scheduled for Friday, February 11, 2011, 6:30 P.M. at the Eutaw [...]
Thousands of people annually cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge as part of the annual Jubilee in Selma. The Bridge Crossing Jubilee annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery March is the largest annual event in America that commemorates the struggle and successes of the Civil Rights Movement. Held in historic Selma, Ala., [...]
The annual Jimmy Lee Jackson Day and Perry County Civic League Anniversary will be held this year on February 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at the Marion Baptist Academy, in Marion Alabama. The facility is located at 400 Centreville Street. The featured speaker of the day will be the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright. This event [...]
Eutaw Council L-R Councilwoman Sheila Smith, Councilman Joe L. Powell, Councilwoman Hattie Edwards, Mayor Raymond Steele, City Clerk Peggy Stripling, Councilman Ralph Liverman and Councilman David Spencer. Pictured in audience is Mr. Levi Morrow. By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher In its first three meetings for 2011, on January 11 and 25 and February 8, the Eutaw [...]
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