(LANETT) Billy Lee Henry, 68, of Lanett died Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, at his residence.Graveside services will be Saturday, Oct. 2, at 11 a.m. EDT at Resthaven Cemetery in Lanett with the Rev. Rusty Letson officiating.The family will receive friends Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home, Valley.Born Dec. 23, 1941,…

7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, September 30 noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at the Kiwanis Clubhouse. 5 p.m. The Lighthouse Soup Kitchen on Main Street in Roanoke is open until 8 p.m. FRIDAY, October 1, Handley homecoming 11:45 a.m. Wadley Kiwanis Club meets at Southern Union State Community College…

Aside from last season’s national championship game, Alabama played its biggest football game last Saturday in Fayetteville. Oh sure, the SEC Championship Game last season was huge, but it was not as huge as the Texas game. If the Longhorns had whipped the Crimson Tide then that SEC Championship Game would have lost a lot…

(NEWNAN, Ga.) Margaret “Mickie” Abernathy of Newnan, Ga., died Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, at Piedmont Newnan Hospital following a long illness. She was a native of Macon, Ga., and was the daughter of the late James E. “Boots” and Helen Aiken. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by a brother, Jimmy Aiken. Mickie…

(LANETT) Mr. Delma Gene Craven, 53, of Lanett died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, at Lanier Memorial Hospital, Valley. The funeral will be Friday, Oct. 1, at 2 p.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley. Burial will be at Hillcrest Cemetery in Lanett. Visitation will be Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. EDT…

As a journalist, there’s a certain integrity I’m expected to keep. I try my darndest to be fair in my coverage of our high school teams here in the county and in any opinions I give in this little slab of space every week. I learned early on not to let my college football prejudices…

WADLEY–The Wadley Town Council accepted resignations of Frank Bell Reaves and Rachel Green from the Recreation Board in a reorganization of the board and also warned citizens about future possible outages as the water/sewer work progresses. Reaves said in submitting his resignation that in his lengthy tenure with parks and recreation at times he “sweated…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Minnie Lee Holloway, 91, of LaGrange, Ga., formerly of Phenix City, died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, at Hospice LaGrange. The family will receive friends Thursday from 1-2 p.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home, Valley. The funeral will be Thursday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in…

Arrests Bobby Lee Kelly Jr., 43, of 2559 Louina Rd., Roanoke – second-degree promoting prison contraband – Sept. 28 Curry Damon Whitlow, 34, of 116 3rd St. NE, Anniston – harassment – Sept. 24 Sabrina Sutton, 30, of 441 LaFayette St., Roanoke – failure to pay fines and bad check – Sept. 21 Rodney B.…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Susan Waikel and Robert Waikel, husband and wife who are also known as Susan Wylie Waikel and Robert E. Waikel, II, to Rivoli Mortgage, on the 25th day of January, 2005, said mortgage recorded in the Office of…

People attending Monday night’s Roanoke City Council meeting were surprised when Mayor Mike Fisher read a resignation letter from hospital board chairman Matt Knight, including members of the board who were present. Knight’s letter, dated Monday, Sept. 27, said, “Due to some unforeseen personal reasons, I am informing you of my resignation as chairman and…

I’d like to thank the JSU Gamecocks, the JSU Gamecock fans, my tailgating crew, my students (old and new), colleagues (even the vegan), Jacksonville High School, my longsuffering wife and children, and two new friends from South Carolina for making a recent weekend so memorable. Let me explain. Back in the summer I was contacted…

(WOODLAND) Funeral services for Charles William “C W.” Bonds, 85, of Woodland will be Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, at 2 p.m. at Liberty East Baptist Church with the Revs. Doris Williams, Charles Fetner and Ridley Parmer officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated March 16, 2005, executed by JEREMY K. RAVEN, a single man, to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”) SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR CTX MORTGAGE CO, LLC, which mortgage was recorded on March 18, 2005, in Mortgage Book 478, Page…

At the Flora-Bama Lounge straddled across the Alabama-Florida line on the Gulf of Mexico patrons can walk about twenty steps from the Alabama border and purchase a Florida lottery ticket, helping pay for the education of Sunshine State children. There are numerous other places along Alabama’s border, perhaps not as close as the lottery cash…

The Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ACADV), a network of the 18 domestic violence programs serving Alabama, recently learned that an out-of-state charity is soliciting money for Alabama domestic violence shelters over the telephone. Neither ACADV nor domestic violence programs in the targeted communities have authorized this solicitation, and Alabama shelters have received little support…