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12/08/10 Jared Felkins DeKalb Board of Education member Harold Bobo (right) presents Lowell Barron with a shotgun.
11/30/10 Former State Sen. Lowell Barron will be honored with a community dinner Tuesday, Dec. 7 in Rainsville.
11/03/10 Republican challenger Shadrack McGill upset Democratic incumbent Lowell Barron Tuesday to become the next District 8 Alabama Senator, which includes all of DeKalb County.
10/17/10 "If you run against Lowell Barron, you take him on, you better hang on to your rump," Athens State University political scientist Jess Brown said.
05/13/10 State Sen. Lowell Barron has been recognized as the 2010 Senate Leader of the Year by the Alabama Association of Resource, Conservation and Development Councils.
05/07/10 State Sen. Lowell Barron, D- Fyffe, was recognized as the 2010 Senate Leader of the Year by the Alabama Association of Resource, Conservation and Development Councils during its 2010 annual state meeting at Guntersville State Park.
04/07/10 The bill by Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron, of Fyffe, was approved today on a voice vote by the House Government Appropriations Committee. It has already passed the Senate and goes to the full House for debate.
04/07/10 State Senator Lowell Barron of Fyffe hit the road running, pitching his road bill to the House Government Appropriations Committee.
04/06/10 Sen. Lowell Barron announced today that he is seeking re-election to represent Senate District 8, which includes DeKalb, Jackson and Madison counties, in the Alabama Legislature.
03/20/10 The Jackson County legislative delegation of Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Scottsboro; Rep. Butch Taylor, D-New Hope; and Rep. John Robinson, D-Scottsboro presented Jackson County officials with a $1 million check today in front of the courthouse in Scottsboro.
03/11/10 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Democratic state Sen. Lowell Barron of Fyffe is planning to make another attempt at getting the Senate to approve his $1 billion road construction plan. The plan stalled in
03/11/10 State Sen. Lowell Barron will continue his series of community chats on Friday with visits to Geraldine and Fyffe. Barron will be in Geraldine at 5:30 p.m. at the Geraldine Volunteer Fire Department and in Fyffe at 7 p.m. at the Fyffe Senior Center.
03/04/10 MONTGOMERY -- A $1 billion road construction plan that bogged down in the Alabama Senate weeks ago will be revived next week, Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, said Thursday.
02/04/10 Alabama Senator Lowell Barron held a press conference on Monday, Jan. 23 at Marshall Road in Rainsville. Sen. Barron, D-Fyffe, said that he wanted to clear up some issues involving his $100 million road and bridge project bill that he recently introduced for the fourth consecutive year.
01/25/10 Alabama Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, will hold a 2 p.m. press conference in Scottsboro to discuss his proposal to finance highway construction with the money from the Oil and Lease Trust Fund.
01/20/10 MONTGOMERY, AL (WBRC) - State lawmakers will take a second day to debate a one billion dollar road and bridge building bill. On Tuesday, the State Senate voted to begin discussion on the bill sponsored by Fyffe Democrat Lowell Barron.
01/19/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Northeast Alabama counties would get $22 million over 10 years under a controversial $1 billion road bond issue that Gov. Bob Riley said he tentatively supports. Etowah County would get nearly $4.9 million over 10 years. Senate Democrats on Tuesday backed a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, but Republicans...
01/19/10 Alabama's Lowell Barron is "optimistic" for a $1 billion plan to spend on state roads, bridges, and railroads.
01/13/10 An effort by Democrats to use $1 billion over 10 years from a state savings account to build and repair roads and bridges across the state has gotten off to a quick start in the Senate. The proposed constitutional amendment by Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron of... Democratic - United States Senate - Lowell Barron - United States - Constitutional amendment
12/17/09 After Gov. Bob Riley's office criticized a bill proposed by Democrats in the Legislature that prohibited the governor's office from issuing no-bid contracts but exempted the legislative branch, Sen. Lowell Barron introduced what he said was a corrected version Wednesday.
12/17/09 MONTGOMERY, AL (WBRC) - One place some Democratic senators want to see a lot of money spent is in road building. Fyffe Senator Lowell Barron and his colleagues in the Senate Democratic caucus say it will be a priority in the legislative session. | 
