(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Glenn Harold Carpenter, 47 of Wedowee will be Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, at 11 a.m. at Roanoke Church of Christ with Bro. Dale Jenkins officiating. Mr. Carpenter will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in Wedowee City Cemetery.Mr. Carpenter died Monday, Aug. 23.Mr.…

(HOGANSVILLE, Ga.) Donald “Dude” Hammett, 66, of Hogansville, Ga., the Corinth Community, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, at his home. Born Sept. 23, 1943, in Corinth, Mr. Hammett was the son of the late Jim Brockman Hammett and the late Kate Kee Hammett. He was a lifelong resident of Corinth, was a cattleman, and attended…

(ASHLAND) Funeral services for O.J. Rollins, 91, of Ashland will be Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, at Benefield Funeral Home in Lineville at 11 a.m. with the Revs. Jerry A. Beavers and Ken Baldwin officiating. Burial will follow in the old Rocky Branch Baptist Church Cemetery in Randolph County. Mr. Rollins died Wednesday, Aug. 25, at…

GRAHAM—A Graham woman died at Wedowee Hospital Wednesday evening, a victim of domestic violence. According to Randolph County Sheriff’s Office investigator Gregg Dendinger, officers responded to 911 call at 4:03 p.m. regarding domestic violence between a man and woman at a trailer at 26103 County Rd. 87, Lot 4, north of the crossroads at Graham.…

Martha and Lester Shepherd have big plans for a downtown property next to The Fitness Vine. They bought the old Kermit Butler watch shop building from his son, Morgan, have a dumpster in place and have been gutting the building. Morgan has been removing the remnants of his father’s old jewelry shop, including furniture. The…

Arrests Nathan Lee Patterson, 28, of 325 County Rd. 226, Lineville – domestic violence (harassment) – Aug. 20 April Price, 30, of 1555 County Rd. 133, Wedowee – bad check – Aug. 19 Alfred Allen, 32, of 808 Strong St., Roanoke – two counts of failure to appear in court – Aug. 19 Michael Brandon…

A Roanoke man remains in a Birmingham hospital after being struck by a car on Border Street on Monday. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, Leon Linson of 550 Border St. was publicly intoxicated in the roadway. Witnesses said at approximately 4:20 p.m., he playfully lunged at a Honda Accord, but was struck…

It’s hard to believe, but The Crystal Ball will make a return next week. It’s been nine months since we’ve actually had college football games to discuss, and to some it has been nine months too long. Most of the talk in the past two or three months has been about the teams expected to…

The day I left Seagrove Beach the ongoing war between the cultured and sophisticated who are turning the coast into a playground for the affluent and anal and those they call “rednecks” flared up again. This time in Destin. The headlines that day told the tale—” ‘That Smell’ is in the air as Lynyrd Skynyrd…

The Woodland Lady Bobcats volleyball team is off to a promising start this season with a 2-0 record after wins over Beulah and Ranburne last week. Woodland dusted Beulah in three straight games—25-13, 25-10 and 25-6— to take the match. Kaitlin Edmonson led the team with 7 kills, 5 digs and 12 attacks. Not far…

ASHLAND, Miss.—The Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating a collision involving two loaded semi-tractor/trailers at the Miss. 7-U.S. 72 intersection in Benton County Monday afternoon. The accident claimed the life of an Alabama man and disrupted eastbound traffic on U.S. 72 for approximately two hours. The Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to the accident about 2:30 pm.…

Wadley Riverfest 2010 is Saturday. This will be the third celebration of the city’s founding but the first highlighting the Tallapoosa River. The event will be in the hay bottoms next to the river. Many of the vendors will be in the shade of the bridge. Law enforcement will direct festival goers onto the dirt…

Finally. The last time we got a taste of real football in this county was back in November of 2009. Handley was playing Jackson in Jackson. Nine months later, here we are, ready to start a new season of football in Randolph County. We have four games set for this week. Friday, Handley will take…

The Roanoke City Council quickly approved an affiliation agreement between Randolph Medical Center and West Georgia Health in LaGrange at Monday’s meeting. Previously approved by the members of the boards of West Georgia Medical Center Inc. and the Roanoke Health Care Authority the city council’s approval was the final major step. The mayor and council…

The Wadley Bulldogs had a tough time with the Lineville Aggies Thursday night in Wadley as Lineville took home a 35-0 win. The Bulldogs struggled to get anything going offensively against the 2A powerhouse Aggies and couldn’t seem to stop them defensively. “I was a little disappointed in a few things,” Wadley head coach Jamie…

The news that the city-owned Randolph Medical Center is affiliating with West Georgia Health of LaGrange (West Georgia Medical Center) promises to be great news for the future of the local facility. Like so many other businesses today, hospitals can’t do things the way they have always done them and hope to stick around far…

I knew something was wrong. A few weeks ago I received the annual property tax valuation for our home and discovered the value had surged in this declining real estate market by nearly four percent over appraisals for the past two years. That seemed odd since the valuation of the houses in my neighborhood, just…

I suppose every baseball fan of my generation remembers where he was when Bobby Thomson unleashed “the shot heard round the world.” Bobby Thomson died in Savannah, Ga., Aug. 17 at the age of 86. Latter day critics are trying to cast a wet blanket over the achievement, claiming there was some cheating going on.…