Miss Barbour County Anslee Sawyer and Little Miss Barbour County Rylee Horne were honored last Monday evening, October 2 with a send-off party held at Trustmark Bank in Eufaula. Friends and family stopped by to wish the girls “Good Luck” before they head off to compete in their respective National Peanut Festival Pageants at the Dothan Civic Center.
A Ribbon Cutting ceremony for Clio’s brandnew health clinic, Clio Health Clinic, LLC, will be held Thursday afternoon, October 12, at 5:30 p.m. The clinic is housed in the former Barbour County Health Department located at 1203 Blue Springs Street in downtown Clio.
A high speed chase ended in downtown Clio early Sunday morning when a suspected thief rammed into the side of a building. According to Clio policeman, Captain Rickey Kennedy, the vehicle crashed into the side of the Calvary Hope Center building, formerly Clio Drug Store, located on Highway 10 and Robinson Street.
Social media posts immediately notified readers that a motorcycle rider was down in Eufaula Thursday afternoon. The devastating news quickly spread that there had been a horrific accident on U.S. Highway 431 at the Paul Lee Parkway intersection.
A Midway man, Eddie Lee Thomas, 77, left an event in Springhill Saturday afternoon and has not been seen by family members since that time as of Tuesday. Thomas had attended a car show in Springhill in Barbour County and left the event in a faded light blue Chevy 1500 longbed pick-up truck.
Barbour County Commissioner Earl Gilmore was re-elected to serve as commission chairman at Tuesday’s meeting held in Eufaula. Gilmore, who has served as chairman of the commission since May of 2005, will continue in the position after receiving two opposing votes.
A couple from Ariton is in Dale County Jail after an investigation discovered they had abused three young children. Ashleigh Ableman, age 27, and her boyfriend, Howard Anderson, age 53, allegedly burned Ableman’s three children with a blowtorch several times according to Lieutenant Caroline Jackson with the Dale County Sheriff’s Department.
Barbour County commissioners awarded a contract to repair the elevator in the county courthouse in Clayton last week but now they face additional immediate problems resulting from water leaks in several offices. The leaks were discovered when some employees found their offices flooded Monday morning.
VFW AT CAREER FAIR - Members of the Eufaula Memorial Post 5850 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars set up a table at the Career Fair at Sparks Campus of Wallace College in Eufaula where information was provided about the VFW and membership applications were shared with participants. Shown are Stephanie Canfield, John Canfield, Peggy Messer, Henry Henderson, and Lee Norton.
