A young Woodland woman was seriously injured an accident on Wednesday of last week.According to Alabama State Troopers public information officer Chad Joiner, Mellia Shea McComb, 28, was eastbound on Highway 48 when her 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo left the road and hit a tree at approximately 8:20 p.m.McComb was transported by helicopter to University…
The Randolph County Board of Education hereby gives notice of a hearing to approve a consent decree in the school desegregation case known as Lee v. Randolph County Board of Education, et al., Civil Action No. 3:70-CV-847, United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama, Eastern Division. This litigation originally began as part of a…
The Randolph County Commission is studying the feasibility of closing a section of roadway in the Fuller Crossroads community being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of County Road 222 and County Road 261, for a point of beginning, thence run northerly along County Road 261 a distance of 0.554 miles to…
The Town of Wadley is now requesting proposals from qualified engineering firms to undertake all engineering design, surveying, and inspection services required to implement the Town’s FY 2010 Land and Water Conservation Fund Project. The project is the expansion of the Wadley Sports Complex. Factors to be considered in the award of this contract will…
SPECIAL NEEDS CLASSROOM AT RANDOLPH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE RANDOLPH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION WEDOWEE, ALABAMA PROJECT NO. 10-191 Sealed proposal will be received for the above referenced projects by Mr. Paul Gay, Superintendent, at the Randolph County Board of Education, Wedowee, Alabama, until Thursday, February 10, 2011, at 2:00 PM, CST, at which…
The origin of the following is unknown, but it was handed out to all attending last week’s meeting in Birmingham of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Alabama. As a powerful reminder of a message we should all heed, we’re reprinting it here: There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was…
This issue has been brought to the forefront of public debate in recent months because of the increased rhetoric surrounding ethics in government. The question is do these gifts to public officials influence the decisions made by our elected and appointed leaders? The debate has primarily focused on gifts and perks given to legislators. However,…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. CV11-0004 State of Alabama, ex. rel. E. Paul Jones, District Attorney, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Plaintiff Vs. Elizabeth Thompson, alias, And one (1) 1996 Ford Explorer VIN# 1FMDU32X0TUB36350 Defendants NOTICE Notice is hereby given that any and all parties claiming an interest in the property sought to be condemned by the…
The Town of Wadley is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide professional administrative services in connection with the Town’s FY 2010 Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Project. Administrative services will require the overall management and administration of the LWCF grant project in accordance with all applicable rules and regulations of the LWCF Program.…
210 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR PROPOSED REVISIONS TO DIVISION 6 ADEM ADMINISTRATIVE CODE RULE TITLE 335-6-10-.10 Special Designations 335-6-11-.02 Use Classifications Notice is hereby given that a hearing before the Department of Environmental Management of the State of Alabama will be held on March 15, 2011, at 10:00 am in the Main Hearing Room…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Robert S. Bateman, a single man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, on the 14th day of February, 2008, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: JAMES EDWARD HOLLIDAY SR., DECEASED Letters of Administration of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 13th day of Jan., 2011, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate Court of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said Estate are…
RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of those mortgages executed by Will Thackston and wife, June Thackston on or about January 12, 2009, to SmallTown Bank, which said mortgages are recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Volume 539, Pages 490-497…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Irene Dobbins Scarbary will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, at Benefield Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Tim Whaley officiating. Burial will follow in Wedowee City Cemetery. Mrs. Scarbary died Tuesday, Jan. 18, at her home. Mrs. Scarbary was born Aug. 26, 1950, the daughter of Charles Willis and…
An article on the outbreak of whooping cough in California, the worst outbreak since 1958, made me think about how vaccines have drastically changed our lives for the better. About 1963 the good people of Randolph County came together under the sponsorship of the Kiwanis Club to do massive immunizations against polio. I was one…
The problem with writing one column a week is that momentous events don’t occur on a weekly basis. They come in clumps, and it’s impossible to keep up with them if you deal with only one topic a week. Since this column is devoted to making sense out of an insane world, I’m using this…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: JOSEPH HERSHAL BENNETT JR., DECEASED Letters of Administration of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 13th day of January, 2011, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate Court of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are…
Southeastern Conference football fans got more ammunition in the “We’re No. 1” argument against the rest of college football when Auburn completed its magical run by winning the BCS national championship. Five—count ’em five—consecutive national championships for the Southeastern Conference makes a pretty strong argument, although the total body of work in the bowl games…
The Woodland Lady Bobcats won their third straight county tournament title Saturday night by defeating the Handley Lady Tigers, 67-43, in Roanoke. The class 2A, fifth-ranked Lady Bobcats took the fight straight to Handley, although the Lady Tigers weren’t going down easily. “That was an exciting game early on,” Woodland head coach Larry Strain said.…
Our new governor, Dr. Robert Bentley, took office this week with the daunting task of solving a leftover budget crises staring him directly in the face. Gov. Bentley announced that the general fund and the education budget will be facing proration shortly. Bentley told education leaders that he is considering ordering across-the-board budget cuts soon…