At Monday’s meeting of Wadley Town Council, Mayor Donna McKay questioned Police Chief Cory Ligon on the use of fuel by police officers while in their vehicles. As at every meeting, the chief shares his activity report and fuel usage for the prior month with the mayor and council. The matter of fuel usage by…
At last week’s meeting of Roanoke School Board, Superintendent Greg Foster gave the following report: Congratulations to our first recipients for Randolph County’s Character in Action Award. We celebrate Amelia Greer and Bo Henry Cooper on December 20, 2023 for their outstanding displays of character. Our Chief Juvenile Probation Officer, Samantha Birtles welcomed everyone and…
If you were ever looking for a real-life example of the saying, “Change happens slowly, and then all at once,” look no further than the high school baseball and softball fields in Woodland. The aging facilities had unofficially achieved “relic” status, with outdated structures, cramped accommodations, misshapen dimensions and patchwork fencing cobbled together on a…
All reports are from the period ending on January 29th A resident of County Road 134 in the Newell community reported that dogs killed five of her goats. She saw a black and white pit bull eating one of the goats with another brown and white hound mix standing nearby. She had also previously lost…
At last week’s meeting of Randolph County School Board, the board recognized the Teachers of the Year from all schools and a county teacher of the year. The teachers of the year recognized were: Kim Norton, Wedowee Elementary Kim Gomez, Wadley High School Shalyn Whaley, Rock Mills Luren Dukus, Woodland High School Jeanette Jones, vocational…
The city of Roanoke committed just over $180,000 to its upcoming project to relocate the city’s police headquarters. The city already owns the building at 538 Main Street where the new headquarters will be, but extensive renovations are needed in order to move the police department into the building. Late last year the Roanoke city…
Incident and arrest reports for period ending on January 22nd RCSO and Wedowee Volunteer Fire Department responded to a structure fire Thursday night on County Road 1291 in the Mount Pleasant community. The family had a cat house on the porch with a heat lamp for their cat. They had heard their cat fighting with…
At their regular meeting on Monday, Randolph County Commission approved the 35 percent design plan by JMR & H architecture for the American Rescue Plan funded renovations of the courthouse, annexes and county shop. The approval came after a lengthy discussion at their workshop meeting last week. The commission also approved the renovations…
An extended stretch of bitterly cold temperatures will continue through the remainder of this week, but milder winter weather should return by early next week. Temperatures dipped into the low teens with single-digit wind chills early Wednesday morning on the heels of widespread winter precipitation just to the north and west of Randolph County Monday…
Randolph County was home to two events that celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday. The Annual MLK breakfast sponsored by Randolph County NAACP #5053 was at Deliverance Temple Church Monday morning, with guest speaker Rev. E. Tremaine Solomon. And the annual MLK Observance Day program by A.C.C.O.M. was held…