A new dress code for students in the Barbour County School District will not go into effect at the beginning of the new school term. Barbour County Board of Education members voted during their regular meeting held last week to suspend enacting a new dress code for one year.
RECREATIONAL POND MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP Friday, July 21 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Barbour County Commissioners voted to finalize a $5,000 grant from Wiregrass RC&D for a project to landscape the grounds at the Clayton Senior Center in Clayton. Deadline to use the money is August 1.
Barbour County has been awarded a highway project through the Annual Grant Program, a program created under the Rebuild Alabama Act. The project calls for the resurfacing of County Road 49 at the County Road 89 intersection in Springhill to the Russell County line. The grant will pay $250,000 of the total estimated cost of $714,321.87 with the remaining $464,321.87 coming from other sources.
Several Barbour County deputies were forced to restrain a Clio man after he eluded them and then began assaulting them. The incident began when a deputy was walking in the gas station in downtown Clio and the store’s clerk alerted him saying, “That’s him.
The 2023 Annual Membership Meeting of Pea River Electric Cooperative is set for Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15. The annual meeting will be held in two sessions to accommodate the greatest number of cooperative members. A business meeting will be held Friday, July 14 at 6:00 p.m. at the Flowers Center in Ozark. The Flowers Center is located at the intersection of E. College St. and Carroll Ave. in Ozark. The purpose of this business session will be to discuss and pass on reports of the previous fiscal year, receive annual meeting and operational reports, and any other business that may be properly presented. Registration for the Friday night session will begin at 5:00 p.m.
The Eufaula Spring Pilgrimage has recently received an award for Best of Bama 2023 in The annual Pilgrimage was voted best Heritage Tour in Alabama in 2023. The awards are voted on by readers of Alabama Magazine which is published six times a year out of Birmingham.