The Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA) recently announced its all-state selections for high school basketball boys and girls for the 2021-22 season. No area boys or girls made the first team but Eufaula High's Caleb Paige earned second-team honors in Class 6A.
Deer crossing highways are the cause of many accidents in Barbour County such as was the case in the accident shown. This accident occurred recently on Highway 51 South near County Road 27 in Louisville. The female driver dodged a deer, lost control of the car and went up an embankment where the vehicle hit a few trees before coming back down. The driver was transported to Dale Medical Center in Ozark by Clayton Rescue Squad with non-life threatening injuries. Louisville police and Barbour County deputies also responded to the scene. Photo by Laney Gulledge
Two inmates incarcerated at separate state prison facilities in Barbour County have recently been found unresponsive and pronounced dead by prison staff. Riley Henderson, a 25-year-old man serving at Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton, died on February 5.
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Barbour County commissioners denied a request to waive tipping fees on debris removal at the Bluff City Inn in Eufaula disposed in the county landfill at this month’s regular meeting held in Eufaula.
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli .
A jury empaneled for the murder trial of Reginald Coley in Eufaula returned a guilty verdict for the 2015 murder of Michael Marshall of Eufaula. In addition to the guilty verdict, Coley also was found guilty of Assault 2nd degree for the shooting of Marshall’s brother, Marvin Marshall, also of Eufaula, Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Possession of Marijuana 1st degree.
Sen. Billy Beasley, (D-Clayton) who is seeking re-election to the Alabama Senate District 28 seat, has received an endorsement from the Alabama Farmers Federation. District 28 is comprised of all of Barbour, Bullock, Henry and Macon counties as well as portions of Houston and Russell counties.
We awoke Monday to snow flurries in some areas of Barbour County. Some say we went through all four seasons in the first 48 hours of 2022 with temps in the 80s over the weekend then dropping dramatically to freezing Sunday night. Only in Alabama can we wear shorts one day and winter coats the next!
A Blakely, GA man was killed Thursday afternoon, December 30, about 5:00 on Highway 79 South, about five miles south of Bakerhill. Thomas Pelmon, Jr., 54 years old, was fatally injured when the 2001 Ford F-150 he was driving left the roadway and struck a tree in the single-vehicle accident.