Noah Carl Rushing Jr., age 65, died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Tallahassee. Funeral services were held on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 3 p.m., at Hanson United Methodist Church, with burial to…
Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown, age 86, died Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in Tallahassee. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m., on Friday, Sept. 9, at Greenville Baptist Church with burial to follow at…
Elsie Mathis
Elsie Mathis, age 92, died Wednesday, August 27, 2016 in Houston, Tx. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, in Madison, with burial taking…
Hurricane Hermine hits area
Rick Patrick Greene Publishing, Inc. It was the first hurricane to hit Florida in 11 years. Even though, as hurricanes go, Hermine was mild, (a Category 1 storm, meaning sustained winds of…
Anti-bullying and sexting advocate visits Madison
Ashley Hunter Greene Publishing, Inc. The North Florida Community College Van H. Priest Auditorium seats 580 people, and nearly every one of the seats were filled with students from Madison County as…
John Anderson Chamblin, Jr.
If you think you heard the sweet chords of an old hymn drifting up into the blue sky along about sunset on Aug. 26, 2016, it was John Anderson Chamblin, Jr. as…
Laura K. Arnold Taylor
Laura K. Arnold Taylor, age 78, passed away peacefully at Langdale Hospice House on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Funeral services were held on Monday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. at Beggs Funeral…
Hurricane Hermine hits home
Greene Publishing, Inc. Photo By Emerald G. Parsons, September 2, 2016 The stately oak tree in front of the historic Smith Mansion, in Madison, was broken and blown down by Hurricane Hermine. …
Mail theft
Story Submitted Madison County Sheriff Ben Stewart brings to the attention of all citizens and communities that the Sheriff’s Office has initiated investigations into several incidents involving mail being taken from road…
Speeding in school zones equals costly citation
Ashley Hunter Greene Publishing, Inc. School in Madison County has been in for almost a month now, and with the heightened traffic along the routes where school zones are located, the citizens…
Hamburg-Lovett Fire Department peanut boil set for Sept. 10
Emerald G. Parsons Greene Publishing, Inc. The Hamburg-Lovett Fire Department, located at 7286 NW Lovett Rd., in Greenville, will hold its annual peanut boil on Saturday, Sept. 10, beginning at 5 p.m….
State prisons offer some Florida districts extra political clout
William Patrick Watchdog.org Florida’s prison inmates are often considered residents of the voting districts in which they’re incarcerated despite not being able to vote and typically residing in other areas of the…
Florida’s teachers union pays 43 employees at least $100K
William Patrick Watchdog.org Within the last few weeks, students and teachers met in classrooms across the state of Florida to begin a new public school year. A new year also means another…
TRIM notices in the mail
Lazaro Aleman Greene Publishing, Inc. By now, Madison County property owners should have received their 2016 Truth-In-Millage (TRIM) notices in the mail. The notices, Property Appraiser Leigh Barfield reports, were mailed on…
Madison County primary election results
Ashley Hunter Greene Publishing, Inc. As the polls closed on Tuesday, Aug. 30 and the final ballots came in to the Madison County Supervisor of Elections office, many of the citizens of…
School bus wreck
Photo Courtesy Of R&R Event Pros Lee Volunteer Fire department Assistant Chief Aaron Beck surveys the damage done to the 2003 Chevy that was driven by Bryon Harris, 55. Harris collided into…
Solar tax cut to be enshrined
William Patrick Watchdog.org Big businesses love tax cuts and environmentalists love solar power. A solar tax cut would seem a perfect fit. And so it is. The nexus between business and environmental…
Operation tire roundup
Rick Patrick Greene Publishing, Inc. Madison County Mosquito Control, Madison County Solid Waste, and Madison County Emergency Management are teaming up to battle deadly mosquitos by hosting a waste tire collection. Dubbed…
New Verizon towers coming to Madison
Ashley Hunter Greene Publishing, Inc. The second meeting in August for the Madison County Commissioners was held on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at the Madison County Extension Office, due to a conflict of…
MCSO issues alert as Hermine approaches
Story Submitted Sheriff Ben Stewart would like to bring to the attention of all citizens and communities that the National Weather Service as recent as this morning has reported that tropical Storm…