The time of the year has arrived - It's 'green 'mater season!' as my family always calls it. There is a time during midsummer when it's so hot you can absolutely bake cookies on the dashboard of your vehicle. It is a time when the rubythroated hummingbirds are swooping and diving and quarreling over their feeders in their high, peevish voices. This is the time of the year when the green tomatoes in our garden are growing fat, sleek and ... green!
Open Letter to The Clayton Fire Department, Clio Fire Department, Texasville Volunteer Fire Department, Blue Springs Volunteer Fire Department and Green’s Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department: The loss of our house on Louisville Street in Clayton, that a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed on Sunday, June 23, 2024, was devastating to us and our families. Our mother purchased the property, then known as the Herring House, in 1953, when it became our home. After our mother’s untimely death in 1965, we continued to live there until the last of us graduated high school.
Now that we are midway through the year, allow me to share some thoughts on Alabama political events. There have been some significant elections already this year in the Heart of Dixie as we await a titanic presidential election in the fall.
Life is such an adventure. We see the places we call home in small town America as its landscape changes.
75 YEARS AGO JULY 15, 1949 Miss Janet Bryan of Cincinnati, Ohio and Clayton has gone to Boston, Mass. to attend a National Red Cross Council which will be held at Howard College.
75 YEARS AGO JUNE 24, 1949 According to Curtis Eiland, teacher of Vocational Agriculture at Blue Springs School, four boys from Blue Springs FFA Chapter received their State Farmers’s Degree, the highest award that the State Association can give. The boys are Cecil Reeder, Reggie Parr, Roland Thorne and Hanson Walker.
It appears that we are having to write a lot lately about serious crimes. These are crimes with murder charges with the victims being teenagers and young adults.
The CEO of RSA has a proven track record. When he issues warnings and makes suggestions, we should pay attention.
75 YEARS AGO APRIL 8,1949 The Eufaula Senior 4-H Club was the winner of the Senior Tournament in the Barbour County 4-H Basketball Tournament. The tournament was sponsored by the Clayton Rotary Club.
Dear residents of Clayton, I write to you today with relief and pride in our community’s commitment to safety. I am privileged to inform you of the successful apprehension of two individuals involved in a grave incident on North Midway Street. These two suspects were arrested for the February 27 shooting into an occupied vehicle, an act that endangered innocent lives and threatened the peace of our streets.