From the monthly archives: July 2012
I am a native of Greene County. I was born in Boligee and raised in the Mt. Hebron community. I attended Greene County Training School. I am a member of Morning Star Baptist Church of Boligee. I am a volunteer with the “Greene Ladies” of the Greene County Hospital Nursing Home Auxiliary. My [...]
To the citizens of the great City of Eutaw, I’m Hattie Barnett Edwards. I would like to thank you so much for the confidence you have shown in me in the past by making me the first female councilperson in this city. I am currently Mayor Pro Tem of this council. Now as [...]
To the citizens of the City of Eutaw, my name is Faye Tyree and I am seeking the position of City Council for District 2. I am a native of Greene County and have resided here the past 22 years. I’ve worked for the Board of Registrars, done substitute teaching, and have retired [...]
I’m La’Jeffery Chris Carpenter and I’m running for the Eutaw City Council, District 2. Running for public office is new to me. I would like to tell you a little about myself and why I am running for city council. I am employed by the City of Marion Police Department, Green Charity Bingo, [...]
In correspondence dated July 12, 2012, the U.S. Justice Department, Voting Rights Section, informed the Greene County Commission’s attorney it does not object to Act No. 2012-422 (S.B. 564) (2012), which authorizes Greene County to conduct a special ad valorem tax election for a 3 mill increase. As part of the pre-clearance procedure, Greene County [...]
At its regular session held Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 4: 30 p.m. the Greene County Board of Education selected school leaders for two local schools. Probationary contracts were awarded to Mrs. Barbara Martin as Principal of Carver Middle School and to Mrs. Sharon Jennings as Principal at Eutaw Primary School, effective July 1, 2012. [...]
Special to the Democrat by: John Zippert, Co-Publisher Much of Tuesday night’s regular Eutaw City Council meeting was devoted to discussions of rules, regulations, personnel and the voters list for the upcoming August 28 municipal elections. With many incumbents at the Council table planning to run and [...]
ACCRA, July 24 (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills has died unexpectedly, a presidential statement said, and an aide said his death occurred on Tuesday after he took ill on Monday night. The death of the president of the world’s No. 2 cocoa grower comes months before Mills was due to stand [...]
by George Barnette Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Publishing veteran Bill Tompkins will get a crack at moving Black newspapers forward as he’s been named president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the umbrella organization for America’s Black newspapers. Tompkins has 19 years of experience with [...]
Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson& of “The Jeffersons” one of television’s most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, has died. He was 74. Police in El Paso, Texas, said late Tuesday that Hemsley was found dead at his home on the eastside of the [...]
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