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EL DORADO – Butler Community College has announced the President’s and Dean’s Honor Roll Recipients for the Spring 2024 semester.

Another rainy Monday and another day of Punky pacing around anxious, panting and shaking. The medicine I got from the vet works, if I can get her to take it. She is not taking it this morning, so this column will be short.

- By Bobby Barrera March,April, May:A Time for Renewal in Land and Schools

Several area students have recently been awarded post-season honors for their spring athletic performances. Recognized by the 2024 Walter Johnson League (WJL)/ South Central Border League (SCBL) were as follows.

With the Greenwood County Fair less than two months away, community members are urged to pick up a fair book and make plans to enter an exhibit in the annual event.

- By Frank J. Buchman, Rotation Increases Grazing Capacity

A Memorial Day pursuit started as a call for help as Greenwood County dispatch received a 911 call reporting that a possible overdose was occurring at Fall River Lake. While en route to the lake, another 911 call was received stating the victim was now driving to the hospital. According to the Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office, dispatch urged the driver to stop multiple times; however, the driver continued.

An off-duty Greenwood County Sheriff’s Deputy received minor injuries last Friday, May 31, following a two-vehicle accident on Highway 99, near 70th Street.

Greenwood County Emergency Management Director Levi Vinson revisited the subject of updating the Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) with cities who own a storm siren(s). Vinson shared that within the new MOUs was moving the testing date and time for sirens county-wide from Monday to Tuesdays at 1 p.m. He noted that this transition would afford for city staff to be present while sirens are being tested to ensure they are operable. If a given siren does not function, the city is to contact Greenwood County Emergency Management to provide notice. The municipality is also to provide notice to Emergency Management when it has been fixed. MOUs are in place for the following cities: Madison, Hamilton, Eureka, Fall River and Severy. Commissioners approved the updated MOUs. Vinson shared that as discussion continues with given cities, the targeted time for transition to the Tuesday afternoon testing will be sometime in August.