Employees from the Roanoke and Woodland post offices participated in the U.S. Postal Service’s annual Stamp Out Hunger Day food drive on Saturday and were overwhelmed by the response from postal customers, who left non-perishable food items beside their mailboxes for mail carriers to pick up during their mail delivery rounds. The two county post…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. DR 2010-000011 JONATHAN TENNEY, PLAINTIFF VS. LYNDI BOSWELL TENNEY, DEFENDANT NOTICE Notice is hereby given to Lyndi Boswell Tenney that a Bill of Complaint for Divorce has been filed against you in the Circuit Court of Randolph County. You are hereby notified that a response to the Bill of Complaint…
Staff Sgt. Tommy “Allen” Glasgow joined the service at 17 years old and has found a home. After being shot during combat, he has been recuperating at Ft. Stewart, Ga., near Savannah, but next week will be winging his way back to Iraq. At 23 years old he is a long way from Randolph County…
The city of Roanoke has gone through legal channels and plans to use a backhoe to remove the dangerous parts of the old World Bazaar building on Main Street, according to Mayor Mike Fisher. The roof of the building fell in April of 2009. Owner Larry Cohen has taken no action on cleaning it up,…
The average soldier in 1861, Union or Confederate, was age 25. He was 5 feet, 8 inches tall, and had an average weight of 143 pounds. The minimum enlistment age was 18, but the drummer boys were usually age 9 or older. The soldiers had a one in 65 chance of being in a major…
WEDOWEE—Randolph County will negotiate the sale of a large building and parking lot in Roanoke to its current occupant, an industry with 50 employees. During Thursday’s workshop meeting of the Randolph County Commission, Rod Hineman of CoreLinc explained how the industry has grown since October 2007 from seven employees to the current 50. He said…
Zach Maxon of Iowa, a volunteer himself, has been amazed at the volunteers who have been working on the second Habitat for Humanity house at Wedowee. For example, members of the LaGrange football team, 50 to 60 guys, have worked on the house three Saturdays, helping put up the frame and doing other work. “They…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Gary Roberts and Roberts, husband and wife, in favor of Branch Banking and Trust Company on the 6th day of May, 2005, and recorded on May 23, 2005, in Mortgage Book 481, Page 42 in the Office of…
June 1 the primaries will be held in Alabama. Deadlines are nearing to register to vote, to obtain an absentee ballot, and to get on the list to work the polls. Anyone planning to vote June 1 must register before 5 p.m. on Friday, May 21. In Alabama registration is cut off 10 days prior…
Three Roanoke teens were arrested on Saturday night after being caught allegedly smoking marijuana on the picnic table at Kiwanis Park. Rodricus Jamar Burkes, 18, of 461 Cotney Line, Roanoke, John Quindarao Robertson, 18, of 1844 Louina Rd., Roanoke, and Shelby Marness Hunter, 18, of 368 Johnson St., Lot 1, Roanoke, are charged with second-degree…
The Wadley Lady Bulldogs pulled off a big win to start the South Central Regional Tournament last Friday, but couldn’t maintain the momentum through the next two games, ending their season. Wadley blasted Fayetteville, 14-4, to get the tournament started on a positive note. The Bulldogs were able to drive in runs in the first…
Default having been made in the terms of that certain Mortgage, executed on the 25TH day of JANUARY, 2006, WILLIE REED, a single man, as Mortgagor, to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS as nominee for ENCORE CREDIT CORP, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, as Mortgagee, which said Mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate,…
The 2010 Randolph County Learning Center Bike Hike Warm-Up hit a record-setting grand total of $39,026. The riders and corporate donations brought in $33,511. Proceeds from the cookout and frozen drink machine brought in $680. The on-air auction yielded $4,835. There were 159 riders in the Warm-Up. One hundred percent of the employees of Wadley…
The 72-hour forecast map provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showed at the start of this week that winds from the north and east are expected to push the Gulf of Mexico oil spill created by the BP oil well explosion more to the west. The forecast did not show a possibility…
The Handley Tigers are preparing for their May 21 spring game against defending 4A state champs, Cherokee County. Wadley, Woodland and Randolph County are also in the midst of gearing up for spring showdowns. At Handley, the Tigers are busy trying to replace a valuable cast of graduating players, a task that won’t be easy.…
The Handley Lady Tigers were on their game defensively in the South-Central Regional Tournament last weekend. Unfortunately for the Lady Tigers, hits were hard to come by as Handley was bounced from the postseason after three games. Handley opened the tournament with a 2-0 loss to Montgomery Catholic. The Lady Tigers struggled to find hits,…
After winning its first two games in the North Central Regional Tournament, Woodland fell apart in the next two games to end its season. The Lady Bobcats took the fight directly to Fultondale in their tournament opener, winning 12-4. Woodland was on fire from the outset, scoring four runs in the first and three runs…
The Alabama Public Service Commission reminds residents in the area code 256 region that, beginning on June 5, 2010, all telephone calls must be dialed using both the area code and the seven digit phone number (area code + seven digit phone number). This will include calls to other 256 numbers as well. Local calls…
Arrests Stacey Rodney Bradley Jr., 21 – failure to appear in court (second-degree theft of property and possession of a controlled substance) – May 8 Howard Everette Pauley, 39, of 9648 Old Hwy. 431, Lot 11 – failure to appear in court (domestic violence) – May 6. Thefts William D. Bassett reported the theft of…
Those high-falutin folks up north are forever discovering what we redneck Southerners have known all along: that mama’n’em and Pappy knew how to fix food and drinks right. Some time ago I wrote about a seminar they held in Brooklyn on how to kill rabbits for food. Question: What kind of wine do you serve…