Glenwood Herald

By Michael G. Fox
Editor

GLENWOOD – A local auctioneer will be selling off the former Glenwood High School property in a planned auction set for this Thursday, April 17.

A property dispute concerning the .61 acre of land where the depot sits has arisen between the City of Glenwood and the purported owner.

On Tuesday, attorneys accepted an injunction that the city had filed to stop the sale of the land on which the depot sits. As of Tuesday, the land will not be included in the auction on Saturday.

The GHS property is owned by Scott Thomason of Amity, who bought the land from his father-in-law Curt Bean. Bean bought the land from the Centerpoint School District when the Glenwood High School was shut down in 1997.

Despite high commercial value, the property sits atthe junction of Hwys 70 and 70B next to the Caddo River Bridge, it has failed to sell, despite several attempts, over the past 11 years.

Bean has run the Caddo Valley Railroad, the short line that serves the Glenwood area, out of the cafetorium-home economics building for several years.

Thomason’s Mid Ark Lumber has offices and a warehouse on the site as well. The entire 9 + acres are up for auction in five different parcels,

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