FUSB increases dividend for 20th straight year
From Staff Reports
      For 20 years now, investors in the parent company of First United Security Bank have received increased dividends. The United Security Bancshares Incorporated's Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share at its regular meeting February 21, 2008, which represe...
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Dixons Mills VFD gets grant
From Staff Reports
      The Dixons Mills VFD was awarded a FEMA Assistance to Firefighters grant of $19,855 this week. AFG awards aim to enhance response capabilities and to more effectively protect the health and safety of the public with respect to fire and other hazards.
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Pine Hill and F.S. Irvin celebrate Arbor Week
      The City of Pine Hill and the F. S. Ervin Elementary School's Fourth Grade Class celebrated Arbor Week with an Arbor Day Program on February 27, 2008 at F. S. Ervin Elementary School. Tia Smith, representing F. S. Ervin's Fourth Grade, welcomed everyone to the event marking Pine Hill's twenty firs...
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Litter clean up on Old Hwy. 5
      This Saturday, People Against a Littered State will hold a "Pride on Old 5" clean up along old Hwy. 5 from Grove Hill to Thomasville. People are encouraged to come out and pick up litter and trash along this stretch of roadway.
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Divin-Morgan vows said
      Sarah Joy Divin and Joshua Earl Morgan were united in holy matrimony on Dec. 15, 2007 at St. Michael Church in Weimar, Texas. Father John C. Bily officiated the ceremony. Sarah is the daughter of David and Catherine Divin of Weimar. She is the granddaughter of Theresa and the late Jerry Kubenka S...
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Dancing for a cause
      The Jordan Dancers Competition company attended the Dance Makers Inc. Dance convention and seminar in Mobile on December 7-9.
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Beaty-Reynolds to wed
      Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dean Beaty Jr. of Clayton are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Jacqueline Daniel Beaty to William Bradley Rey - nolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Dewey Reynolds of Mobile. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Jackie Lane of Pratt - ville and the late Hube...
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Larrimore is guest speaker at Research Club
      The Thomasville Research Club met Feb. 21, at the home of L.J. Smith with 17 members present. Guest speaker was Kay Larrimore, cooperative ed. coordinator for Thomasville High School. Mrs.
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Gates announce birth of a daughter
      Russell and Tara Gates of the Liberty community announce the birth of their daughter, Sarah Grace Gates, born at 1:58 p.m., Feb. 6, at Mobile Infirmary Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 20 inches long. Sarah Grace is the granddaughter of Wayne and Sandy Cooper of Surginer and ...
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