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Residents At the Former Fairlane Meadows Community In Eufaula Will Have A New Home Come August 2025
EUFAULA, Ala. (WTVM) - In East Alabama, some residents in the Eufaula Housing Authority community will have a brand new home come August 2025. Fairlane Meadows was built in the 60s and is now under construction. Director of Eufaula Housing Authority, Tom Wachs, says it was time for an upgrade.
The Boys and Girls Club Lake Eufaula Two Months Away From Closing Its Doors
EUFAULA, Ala. (WTVM) - “We are um...we probably have about two months left as far as funding for our club goes,” said Scharon Peterson. The Boys and Girls Club Lake Eufaula serves families throughout Barbour County. Through the school year and also all day through the summer. They recently announced if they do not receive donations or sponsors, they will be closing their doors in two months. Peterson is the Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club Lake Eufaula and she says they need help from the community to make it through the summer.
ADOC correctional security guard arrested for promoting prison contraband
A correctional security guard with the Alabama Department of Corrections has been arrested. ADOC officials tell Action 8 News that Lashonnon Belser has been charged with Promoting Prison Contraband III. Belser worked at the Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County. Belser is currently in the Barbour County Jail. ADOC officials...
Blue Springs State Park visitors causing traffic backups on French Avenue
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — When the manatees come to Blue Springs State Park, so do the crowds and traffic. Don Shelton wrote into Traffic Inbox because the backups can extend for miles on French Avenue in the Orange City area. “When the manatees come in, people want to go...
Alabama prison employee charged with giving cell phone chargers, food to inmate
An Alabama state prison employee was arrested after authorities say she supplied contraband to an inmate. Lashonnon Zibrica Belser, 39, is charged with third-degree promoting prison contraband. That charge is a misdemeanor crime. Belser was taken into custody Thursday morning at Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County where she was...
High school baseball: Colton Sampson of Alabama tops national strikeout leaderboard
According to statistics submitted to MaxPreps, Colton Sampson of Lakeside School (Eufaula, Ala.) is high school baseball's national leader in strikeouts. The senior southpaw has 158 strikeouts for the Chiefs over 76.2 innings. He hit double-digit strikeouts in 10 of his 13 starts when he threw at least four innings. In a 4-0 complete game win March 19, Sampson struck out 15 batters while registering two hits at the plate, including a double.
Two Cuthbert residents want to save the home of a jazz legend
The pair seek to restore the childhood home of a legendary figure in jazz — Fletcher Henderson — as well as memorialize the man who raised him. GPB's Orlando Montoya reports. An effort is underway in Southwest Georgia to restore the childhood home of a legendary figure in...
Memorial for fallen veterans rebuilt in Henry County
HENRY COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) — Henry County citizens can once again pay respects to fallen war veterans. Abbeville unveiled its brand new War Dead monuments at Veterans Memorial Park after a tornado swept through the area last year, destroying the five existing monuments. Since the tornado, Henry County has...
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