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November 21, 2023

Last week Results (Nov. 17th) BTW 22, Handley 9 St. James 41, RCHS 6 Wadley 81, S. Lamar 27 Standout performances Mo Winston, RCHS: 17…

Football Friday Night: Wadley sets school record in second round win; Handley, RCHS eliminated

November 18, 2023

A week after setting the school record for points in a game, Handley’s offense found much more potent resistance in the defense of Booker T.…

Football Friday Night: An upset in Lineville, a rally in Wedowee and a romp in Roanoke

November 10, 2023

In the battle of the two winningest coaches in the history of Alabama high school football, No. 1 stunned No. 2 as Terry Curtis’s fourth-seeded…

Football Thursday Night: Wadley cruises in round one

November 9, 2023

The last time Wadley and Cedar Bluff met, Wadley lost on a heartbreaking go-ahead touchdown pass in the final minute of a 2015 playoff game.…

Playoff preview: Wadley, RCHS, Handley and Clay Central start playoff journeys this week

November 8, 2023

Many people love November because they see it as the start of the Christmas season. (Whether that’s actually true is up for debate. I’ll just…

News

Female inmate dies in Randolph County jail

December 6, 2023

Sheriff David Cofield and Randolph County Sheriff’s Office have confirmed the death of an inmate of Randolph County Jail. On Saturday, Nov. 25, at 32-year-old…

Roanoke City police arrest reports

December 6, 2023

Norvel Quinton Trammell, 41, of 1924 Louina Road, Roanoke – Failure to Appear/Comply/Pay – Nov 28 Gary Ray Langston, 29, of 1951 Co Rd 809,…

Randolph County Sheriff’s reports

December 6, 2023

RCSO and Wedowee Police Department responded to a break-in in progress between 3 and 4 a.m. on Nov. 30 at a shop on Highway 48…

Roanoke approves employee Christmas money, discusses citizens’ trash dumping

December 6, 2023

A little extra Christmas money will be showing up on the paychecks of City of Roanoke employees after the Roanoke City Council agreed to its…

Wadley natural gas customers to receive incentives, rebates

December 6, 2023

At Monday’s meeting of Wadley Town Council, Mayor Donna McKay presented council members a copy of the agreement signed last month with Municipal Gas Authority…

Obituaries

Barbara Lynn Herren Braswell

December 8, 2023

(WACO, Ga.) Funeral services for Barbara Lynn Herren Braswell, 70, of Waco, Ga., will be held on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, at 2…

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R. C. Bolt

December 8, 2023

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for R. C. Bolt, 91, of Roanoke will be held on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, at 2 p.m., at Quattlebaum…

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Bert Clark Rountree

December 4, 2023

(ROANOKE) Bert Clark Rountree, 79, of Roanoke passed away Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. Mr. Rountree was born Aug. 21, 1944 to the late…

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HM Cox

December 4, 2023

(WOODLAND) HM Cox, a wonderful husband, father and grandfather, of Woodland, passed away on Nov. 23, 2023. He was 70. He was a…

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Kenneth Colbert Horn

December 4, 2023

(BAINBRIDGE, Ga.) Kenneth Colbert Horn, 76, of Bainbridge, Ga., passed away Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. A celebration of life will be held after…

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