Story Submitted The 55 Plus Club returns on Wednesday, Sept. 14 for a new season of luncheons and programs. As in the past few years, the Sheriff’s Department of Madison County will…
Prayer breakfast and appreciation service to be held
Ashley Hunter Greene Publishing, Inc. Jeslamb A.M.E Church will be celebrating their pastor’s appreciation services with a prayer breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 9 a.m. in the church’s dining hall. The…
Judge rules: tests can’t be used to hold students back
Lazaro Aleman Greene Publishing, Inc. The Opt Out Florida Network, a statewide collection of parent-led groups opposed to the state’s standardized test-based accountability system and others of like minds, won a significant…
Burglary leads to six-hour chase; arrests
Story Submitted Madison County Sheriff Ben Stewart reports that on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 1, Deputy Marcus Holbrook and Staff Sergeant Jason Whitfield were dispatched to Clover Farms Grocery Store, which…
Homecoming parade re-instated
Rick Patrick Greene Publishing, Inc. At the Tuesday, Sept, 6 Madison County School Board meeting, citizens raised concern about the Madison County High School (MCHS) homecoming parade being cancelled for this year. …
Driver falls asleep; sustains serious injuries
Ashley Hunter Greene Publishing, Inc. Stephanie Crossley, age 45, was transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital following a vehicle wreck on Sunday, Sept. 4, around 8:04 a.m., after Crossley advised she had fallen…
School accountability reports released
Story Submitted By: Madison County School Board Each year, the Florida Department of Education releases a report called a School Public Accountability Report (SPAR). As part of the guidelines requested by the…
Be on the watch for service/contractor scams
Story Submitted By: Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services We often hear stories of how adverse circumstances can bring out the best in people. Unfortunately, it is also true that these…
Noah Rushing, Jr.
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…