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(WADLEY) Funeral services for Billy Faye Norred Gay, 91, of Wadley will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, at 2 p.m. at…
Read More(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Marilyn “Maria” Hodges, 64, of Wedowee will be held on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at 2 p.m. at Rocky…
Read More(MELBOURNE, Fla.) Graveside services for Alma K. Treadwell, 97, of Melbourne, Fla., will be held on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, at 2…
Read More(FIVE POINTS) Funeral services for Wanda Lynn Nix-Koch, 65, of Five Points, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7 ,…
Read More(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Betty Baker, 87, of Wedowee, were held on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, at 1 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel…
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With very little discussion, Randolph County Commission approved renewing the one cent sales tax to benefit education in the county and City of Roanoke. Commissioner…
On December 16 and 17 FERC and Alabama Power will host a public meeting in the Wedowee South Marina. Easy to access and understand information…
I wasn’t working at the Leader when Chestnut moved in as the resident office cat. Maybe because of that it just seemed to me like…
At last week’s meeting of Randolph County School Board, Probate Judge George Diamond swore in all board members, the new members and those that faced…
In the 1970’s, a country music artist recorded a song called Behind Closed Doors. The last line of the song says, “No one knows what…
Sports
The Wadley Bulldogs are heading back to Birmingham. Wadley continued on its playoff path of destruction in Friday’s state semifinal game against Hackleburg as the…
It’s safe to say the Volunteers of Clay Central had not faced a defense this season nearly as stingy as what they encountered Friday in…
In every Wadley game this season there has been a snowball, a seemingly exponential accumulation of Bulldog points as inevitable as gravity. In the Bulldogs’…
A series of special teams plays helped put RCHS in a deep first-half hole, and the Tigers were overwhelmed in the third quarter as they…
The regular season ended with a thud for the three local teams that took the field Friday night, with two of those teams taking losses…