April Anthony spoke to a group of diabetics and their family members about how diabetes has become an epidemic disease, saying in just three to four years the numbers have increased from 20 million to 23.6 million.The family nurse practitioner who is in the Southern Family Health Care facility on Price Street said in her…
As you well know, this column occasionally takes off on flights of levity, but its underlying purpose is to be useful to its readers, especially those fortunate enough to live Down South. So in the spirit of usefulness, I am going to offer 10 pointers to the Baby Boomers, that crop of kids who magically…
Randolph County Department of Human Resources Child Support Enforcement program recently won an award from the Alabama Child Support Association for its work for children. This county was singled out of all other counties in Alabama for having the largest increase in child support collections for a small county during the fiscal year of 2010.…
(WADLEY) Virginia Heard, 78, of Wadley died Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, at Bethany House in Auburn. The funeral will be Thursday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m. at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church, Wadley, with Elders Thomas Knight and James Rowe officiating. Burial will be at Galilee Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Wadley. Visitation will be Wednesday, Dec.…
The armadillo was about 30 feet away when my nine-year-old grandson spied him. Excitedly he asked his grandfather what to do. “Grab that rake and go get him,” said my husband Dennis. So Brock got his weapon and slowly edged toward the ball of shell and claws. As he got within 10 feet the armadillo…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Mr. Carrol Wilburn Royster, 68, of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Clifford Delee, Steve Dean and Darrell Hogan and chaplain Donna Thornburg officiating. Burial will follow in High Pine Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5-8…
Memory is a tricky thing. As I get older I have begun to doubt if I really did things in my youth that I have said I did, or thought I did, or even remembered that I did. Historians, which I occasionally claim to be, know how tricky memory can be. A person interviewed years…
7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, December 16 noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at the Kiwanis Clubhouse. 3:30 p.m. Randolph County Board of Education meets in the Randolph County Commission Chambers. 5 p.m. The Lighthouse Soup Kitchen on Main Street in Roanoke is open until 8 p.m. 6 p.m. Wedowee…
The Roanoke City Council peppered Tom Tetreault, general manager with CommuniComm Services, and members of the utilities board with questions at Monday night’s meeting. The council had questions about cable service increases and also about expected utility water/sewage increases. Mayor Mike Fisher said Tetreault was there to give information about the cable and Internet increases…
The Woodland Bobcats rebounded from a close loss to Piedmont early last week to roll off a pair of big wins over Ranburne and Spring Garden. Woodland fell to Piedmont, 77-70, last Thursday in a game that was well within reach for the Bobcats. Woodland played lights out ball in the first quarter, taking a…
Arrests Christopher Zachary Knight, 29, of 56 Heard St., Wedowee – three counts of failure to appear in court (no driver’s license and two for harassment) – Dec. 13 John Edward Wilcott, 28, (no address given) – probation violation – Dec. 13 Joseph W. Goodwin, 37, of Anniston – child support – Dec. 12 Anthony…
(WADLEY) Funeral services for Jimmie Ann Knight, 78, of Wadley will be Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at noon at Corinth Christian Church with the Revs. Ricky Cummings and Bobby Burroughs officiating. Burial will follow at the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday. Mrs. Knight died…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Ervin Randall Smith Jr., 56, of Roanoke, formerly of Valley, will be Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Cedarwood Cemetery with the Rev. Greg Norred officiating. The family will receive friends at Quattlebaum Funeral Home from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 14. Mr. Smith died Monday, Dec. 13, at…
ALABAMA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Default having been made in the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by John Terry and Yulonda Terry, for and during their joint lives then to the survivor of them to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc acting solely nominee for EquiFirst Corporation, its successors and assigns, dated July 24, 2007, said…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Joseph M. Smith and his wife, Theresa Binion Smith, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., on the 12th day of May, 2005, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…
(WADLEY) Funeral services for Curtis G. Calhoun, 86, of Wadley will be held Thursday, December 16, 2010, at 11:00 am from Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Rev. Jack Womack officiating. Burial will follow at Providence Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 15. Mr. Calhoun died…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Nadine Prescott, an unmarried woman, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Molton, Allen, & Williams Mortgage Co. LLC, on the 9th day of May, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: CORA E. WILLIAMSON NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION FOR SUMMARY DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Summary Distribution of the above named estate has been filed by Lythia S. Gibson on the 10th day of December, 2010, and that 30 days after the notice of publication, such…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: JOSEPH HERSHAL BENNETT JR., DECEASED NOTICE OF PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION AND NOTICE FOR SALE OF PROPERTY To: Earlene Smith Macon, Ga. You are hereby notified that Randy Gibbs, President of Gibbs Service Inc., has this day filed in this Court his Petition for Letters of Administration and a…
(ATTALLA) The funeral will be at noon Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Attalla, for Lera Smith Rowser, 84, Attalla, who died Thursday, Dec. 9. The Revs. William H. Granger and John M. Woods will officiate. Burial will be in Rainbow Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Rowser was born on July 27, 1924, in…