Inmates within the walls of state prison facilities went on strike Monday to protest treatment within the facilities and for reforms to be made to the state sentencing and parole laws. Barbour County has two state prison facilities, Ventress in Clayton and Easterling in Clio.
Barbour County commissioners passed the county’s Fiscal Year 2022-23 budget during a special called meeting held last week with no discussion of line items. The budget includes a 10% raise for anyone working for the county effective September 30, the end of this fiscal year.
Sen. Billy Beasley was surprised when his name was called as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for lifetime achievements to the pharmacy profession. The award was presented to him by the Harrison School of Pharmacy at Auburn University during a dinner meeting held at the President’s Mansion.
There is not a person who has not been affected in some way or another about yet another mass shooting. The most recent took the lives of some 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
I consider the frog as the unsung hero and underdog (underfrog?) of the forests and woodlands. It seems we humans with our lofty airs seldom consider the humble amphibian until we need him for a variety of reasons - as an easy meal, as a natural barometer, even as a kind of folk hero.
I hear the tell-tale sound of a laying hen's "churr-churr" followed by a loud squawking "bok … Bhok!" Then, in succession, each and every one of my remaining six layers sound off with their particular voices until my yard is filled with a chorus of chickens congratulating their sister on laying an egg. The growling voice of my rooster, Colonel, says "hurr-hurr" above it all. And my duck's thunderous "wak-wak-HONK" rings out louder than a pistol-shot.
75 YEARS AGO MARCH 21, 1947 John H. Blair, chief clerk to the eastern traffic manager of the Southern Railway System at New York, N.Y., will be promoted to commercial agent at Cleveland, Ohio, effective March 1, it was announced by H.
If you have not received a telephone call from what appears to be a local number to advise you that your car warranty is about to expire and they have notified you numerous times, you are one of the fortunate ones.
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