Incidents •Three 12-year-old girls were transported by helicopter to Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown hospital in Columbus, Ga., after an ATV accident on the afternoon of July 5 on County Road 658 near Rock Mills. According to the report, the girls were riding in a two-wheeled cart being pulled by a four-wheeler when the right tire…
Robert Alton Joiner made a second appearance before the Roanoke City Council Monday, seeking answers to his inquiry regarding his accusation of harassment against Roanoke police chief Jonathan Caldwell. Roanoke Mayor Jill Patterson-Hicks responded to Joiner with a prepared statement in the meeting, leading to a somewhat tense back-and-forth between the two before the meeting…
At last week’s meeting of Wedowee Town Council, the council adopted four resolutions on the municipal election. Only one of the current council members has opposition in the August municipal elections and according to Alabama law, the council members with no opposition are declared winners of the election. It should be noted there will not…
In 1995 there was only one ambulance service in Randolph County. That service, Randolph County Ambulance Service, was owned by the county and funded by the county. When the service closed down, manager Carl Sellers decided to move to Roanoke and open his own service, Emergency Medical Transport, leaving the northern part of the county…
Bradley and Nikki Bozeman presented a check for $1,500 at a recent Roanoke Rotary Club meeting. The check will help kick off the Stuff the Bus school supplies project. The Stuff the Bus project will culminate on Saturday July 26 at the Main Street Theatre in Roanoke. At 9 a.m. that Saturday 600 back packs…
by Tanner Huey After over 30 years of service, Roanoke’s Postmaster Phillip Langley is retiring. Langley began his career in the postal service in 1993 at Daytona Beach, Florida inside a mail processing facility. After 15 years in Daytona, Langley moved to Alabama looking for work. He accepted a position in Alexander City in 2009,…
One of the last vestiges of small-town telephone dialing will soon be a thing of the past for Roanoke land-line users. A new area code set to be introduced in February of next year will make seven-digit dialing obsolete and force all Roanoke residents to dial 10 digits – even for calls across town. The…
Incidents •A Wedowee complainant reported he paid a contractor who was supposed to be building a house for him amounts totaling $85,000 for framing, electrical, siding, insulation, septic, etc., and he did not perform the work. The contractor signed an agreement to pay the money back, but three checks for $6,000 each have all bounced.…
Jeff Monroe, the mayor of Five Points, Alabama, in north Chambers County, has officially announced that he will be a candidate for Alabama House of Representatives, District 37. This district includes all of Randolph County, a portion of Chambers County including LaFayette; as well as parts of Opelika and unincorporated Lee County. Bob Fincher has…
Now that the rumor mill of who will qualify and who won’t has ended, and we have cold, hard facts concerning who is running in the upcoming municipal elections, we can start to take stock of what those races will hold in the coming weeks. As it typically the case the mayoral races will draw…