Eufaula News

Plans for construction of Deerfield Place, a 40-unit apartment complex off Highland and Cotton avenues in Eufaula, are among a group that the Alabama Housing Finance Authority reviewed and approved after it received a $31,952,086 allocation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Major players in the Alabama low-income housing industry have returned to town and announced that they will build a $6 million apartment complex consisting of 40 units, in six buildings on five acres between Highland and Cotton avenues.

Barbour County residents have a chance to make a child overseas smile this Christmas.

A significant Eufaula landmark was recently vandalized. The Shorter Cemetery, located off of Riverside Drive, had some of its monuments destroyed recently, according to a Eufaula Police report.

Every month, we publish percentages, statistics and other numbers about the county's unemployment rate.

Kids and grownups across the Eufaula area put on their blue jeans for babies Friday as part of the March of Dimes "Blue Jeans for Babies" campaign.

Quitman County Sheriff's Office reported the arrest of 3 males and a female for the armed robbery of four individuals off State Road 39 in Georgetown, GA late Saturday night.

On 11-02-2009 Sheriff LeRoy Upshaw received information to the location of some property that was stolen from 325 Co.

Barbour County authorities recently arrested a Eufaula man and charged him with a residential burglary.

Four part-time positions as security officers at Barbour County courthouses in Eufaula and Clayton could become available in January.

It was 1957. More than a decade after World War II ended, the German government was beginning to rebuild its military.

It would be wise to have an umbrella tonight and tomorrow. That's because Tropical Storm Ida is expected to dump several inches of rain on Barbour and Quitman counties.

A soldier with Eufaula ties was among those injured in Fort Hood last week. Staff Sgt.

Some residents of Dudley Quarters are protesting Harry Goggans' proposed real estate project for the area.

The Eufaula, Ala., father of Staff Sgt. Chad Davis said his son is recovering after he was hit in the shoulder during a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post.

That's what Deltonya Warren reported to the Eufaula City School Board of Education last week.

A Eufaula man, Daniel Griggs, 24, of 545 E. Barbour St., was shot three times in an incident that occurred Friday.

I wouldn't count on the Deerfield Place developers calling another public meeting - not unless they absolutely have to.

In its prime, the Bluff City Inn was a resting place for travelers, a home away from home for a few locals and a gathering spot for the entire Eufaula area.

"The votes are in and we've got good news," says a flyer that The Eufaula Tribune prepared to notify the winners of the newspaper's annual Reader's Choice Awards.