Quitman County Chief Deputy Eddie Ingram is seeking higher office in another county.

The Barbour County Board of Education welcomed a new member to the board last week.

Barbour County Sheriff LeRoy Upshaw is urging local motorists to stay off the roads, as they are expected to become more dangerous tonight.

The snow is falling in Barbour and Quitman counties, and we want your snow pictures! You can email them to or http://snap.eufaulatribune.com. We may use some of them in the Tribune next week!

According to Eufaula City Schools spokesperson Mitzi Clayton, students will make up Friday’s absence on Tuesday, March 16, which is on the system calendar as a student holiday.

School information will be posted later this today on http://www.eufaulatribune.com

The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a winter storm watch from late Thursday night through Friday afternoon for much of central Alabama, including Eufaula and Barbour County.

Last week, I joined a bipartisan group of my colleagues in introducing legislation that would bar funding for the trial of suspected 9/11 terrorists in U.S. civilian courts.

Eufaula City School officials met Wednesday for the system’s annual Teacher of the Year luncheon held at Shorter Mansion.

Eufaula’s all-volunteer Historic Preservation Commission (EHPC) met to consider the possibility of expanding the district by roughly ten city blocks last week. The public hearing in the auditorium at Carnegie Library drew a crowd of over fifty residents and interested parties.

A sure sign of commercial activity is heavy equipment and traffic lights, and Eufaula will see more of both in the very near future.

Eufaula’s downtown streetscape project seems to be dragging, Mayor Jay Jaxon said at this week’s city council meeting.

Barbara Larson, executive director of Leadership Alabama, visited the Bluff City Tuesday.

Legal representatives for The Eufaula Tribune have responded to a subpoena dues tecum (Latin for “bring with you under penalty of punishment”) dated Jan. 21 from District Attorney Ben C. Reeves.

A Eufaula man who allegedly shot and killed a woman Tuesday afternoon on Randolph Avenue was found dead later that evening.

I just got off the phone with Buddy Buie, songwriter extraordinaire, who also happens to live on scenic Lake Eufaula.

Barbour County Sheriff Leroy Upshaw found himself involved in a high-speed chase early this morning following a tip that a large amount of narcotics would be coming into the Springhill area of Barbour County in the early morning hours of Monday.

One of Eufaula’s most beloved historic homes is turning 150 years old this year. Fendall Hall, constructed in 1860, is celebrating its birthday with some much-needed renovations to the grand building.

A Eufaula man died Thursday likely from suffocation after he reportedly hung himself at Southeast Alabama Medical Center.
Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd said he responded to the medical center around 4:15 a.m. and pronounced the 55-year-old Barbour County man dead.

The Eufaula Police Department and District Attorney Ben C. Reeves, Jr. want to know the identify of a Tribune reader who has commented on news stories regarding the arrest of a Lt. Steve Hanners, a veteran Eufaula Police Department employee.

Another candidate will seek the vacant State Representative-District 84 seat currently held by Rep. Billy Beasley.

While most fifth graders were planning their Christmas wish list in November, one group of Eufaula students was deciding which companies to add to their list of stock investments.

Watch the 2010 Republican Gubernatorial Forum live from Opelika High School at 6:30 p.m.

The Bluff City will soon choose a very special young lady to represent Eufaula as Pilgrimage Queen.

Exotic trips to Spain and Italy? Chatting with Emeril and Suzanne Somers? It’s all part of a day’s work for Eufaulian Wally Clark, CEO of Bellini Shoes.

You’ve probably heard the old saying, purported to be an ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”  Whether it’s a curse or a blessing, Chinese or otherwise; there is no doubt that our time, on the threshold of the second decade of the twenty-first century, is indeed an interesting time.

The City of Eufaula has been approved to receive approximately $23,000 in reimbursement for various road and drainage projects.

Eufaula High School students will be delivering three performances of “Charlotte’s Web” this weekend at the Eufaula City Auditorium.

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. - The newest exhibits in the Andy Griffith Museum include the keys to the Mayberry Jail and a wooden gavel that was on Sheriff Andy Taylor’s desk.

Buttery Sweet Potato Casserole