New RCHS head football coach and athletic director Tal Morrison can take solace in at least one thing after he appeared before the Wedowee Town Council Tuesday asking for funds. They didn’t say no. But that doesn’t mean they said yes either. The council tabled Morrison’s request for a total of $26,000 to complete the…
The Town of Wedowee continues to upgrade it recreational facilities at French Park, with outdoor basketball, tennis and pickleball courts coming to the facility later this year. The town recently added a third multi-use youth baseball/softball field that made its competition debut in the spring of 2024, and it continues to invest in its centerpiece…
Over the next five weeks for the entire month of July the Leader will be recognizing the athletes from the 2025-2026 sports seasons that made the biggest impact on the fields and courts for their teams. We get things started this week with a deserving group of young ladies that carried their teams to success…
As is so often the case when a coaching change is made at a small-town high school, more than one sport is effected in the fallout. That is the situation at Woodland where former head football coach Kevin Smith was told he would not be retained and chose put in his retirement papers with the…
When your team wins at a high level, the rest of the state tends to take notice of the players that made that happen. That theory applies to the ASWA’s 2026 all-state softball teams and the players from Randolph County who were recognized as part of them. Two schools from the county made the state…
All-star tournaments for local youth baseball teams in four different age groups will begin Monday, with tournaments being played in Roanoke, Wedowee, Ashland and Lineville. Roanoke will host the 4-team “Major” tournament with the oldest age group of 11 and 12 year-olds. The 9 and 10 year-olds will also play in a four-team tournament beginning…
We all have the subjects in school that become our favorites, and many times some form of those subjects becomes the focal point of our adult lives. For me, the two topics that always held my attention were sports and history. I was decent in math and can get caught up in the magic of…
With a virtual revolving door of head football coaches over the past dozen seasons, maybe a coach who has been there for nearly a decade can steady the Woodland football program. Woodland has named long-time assistant coach Charles Wood to take over the program. Wood steps into the lead role after serving as an assistant…
I published a story earlier this week that said that Handley’s Breydan Watkins set the county’s career home run record among varsity softball players when she hit her 36th career long ball this past season. Turns out that was not correct. When I originally looked back on the career numbers of RCHS’s Talee Sims, who…
RCHS entered its second appearance in the 3A state tournament Thursday seeking the school’s first win on the state’s biggest stage. They’ll leave Oxford with that quest unfinished as they dropped both games to end their season. The silver lining is that all but one of the players on this team will be back next…