10:30 a.m. Narcotics Anonymous meets behind the former KFC in Roanoke in the building with the blue awning.7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department.THURSDAY, November 12noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at The Galley Restaurant.2 p.m. Trip Skipper, field representative with Congressman Mike Rogers’ office, will be at Wedowee Town Hall until 4…

(ANNISTON) Services for Virginia Scales Curry, 75, will be at noon Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, at Anniston Funeral Services Chapel with the Rev. Deborah Hunter officiating. Mrs. Curry died on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Stringfellow Hospital. Survivors include a host of cousins, Walter Glenn and Viola Glenn Patridge of LaGrange, Ga., Joe Rufus Glenn of…

Randolph County Commissioner Lathonia Wright remains at University Hospital in Birmingham after having an aneurysm to burst during the commission’s workshop meeting on Thursday morning of last week. The commissioners were discussing whether to do some clearing work at the new industrial park with county equipment or bid out the work to a contractor. Wright…

As Veterans Day approached I thought of Sgt. Rivers. Jewel Rivers, “Jack” to his friends, was from the New Prospect community in rural Clarke County, Ala. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on Dec. 28, 1943. Rivers wanted to be a pilot but instead became a waist gunner on a B-24 Liberator, flying with…

Without discussion the Roanoke City Council passed a $4.9-million budget with a comfortable reserve of $549,509 for emergencies or un-budgeted expenses. Total anticipated revenues are $5,478,374. Mayor Mike Fisher asked if there was anything they did not like or anything they did like or any questions and nothing was said. After it was unanimously approved…

It is time that SEC commissioner Mike Slive and head of officials Rogers Redding pull their heads out of whatever hole in the ground they have been stuck in lately. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they continue to insist the Southeastern Conference has the best football officials in college football. If so, officiating in…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jackie L. Brown and Caysie E. Brown, husband and wife, to Argent Mortgage Company, LLC, on the 24th day of June, 2005, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in…

Wadley Council addressed several issues at their last meeting, including setting Dec. 5 for the Christmas Parade, a town clean-up, assisting with Envision Wadley’s Nov. 14 depot clean-up day, and the Thanksgiving Day meal that Meadowcraft is providing. Wadley’s Annual Christmas Parade will be Saturday, Dec. 5, at 1 p.m. Anyone who wants to be…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Real Estate Mortgage executed by Ethel L. Battle, to the United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture, acting by and through the Farmers Home Administration, or its successor, dated November 9, 1989, recorded November 13, 1989, in the Office…

The Alabama Department of Public Health is expanding the target group of individuals eligible for the H1N1 influenza vaccination and has scheduled two clinics for those groups here. In Randolph County H1N1 clinics will begin administering a limited number of doses here Friday, Nov. 13 and Monday, Nov. 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness described in and secured by that certain mortgage executed by Carron Meadows Sparks, a single woman to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) acting solely as nominee for Pensacola Guarantee Mortgage dated the 15th day of June, 2007, and Recorded in Mortgage Book 517, Page…

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(VILLA RICA, Ga.) George Manuel Foster Jr., 70, of Villa Rica, Ga., died Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. He was born May 4, 1939, in Carroll County, Ga., the son of the late George Manuel Foster Sr. and the late Mrs. Mary Ellen Mabry Foster. Mr. Foster was a…

(ROANOKE) Services for Garry Gaines Bowen, 55, of Roanoke will be Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Potash Church of God with the Revs. Ken Brooks and Keith Benefield officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Bowen died Friday, Nov. 6, at his residence. Mr. Bowen is survived by three daughters…

(WEDOWEE) Services for Ruby Lee Parker Andrews, 77, of Wedowee, will be Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Zion Ret Baptist Church with the Rev. William Phillips officiating. Mrs. Andrews will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for James U. “Jimmy” Royston, 61, of Roanoke were Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Antioch Congregational Christian Church with the Rev. Stanley Yarbrough officiating. Burial will follow in adjoining church cemetery. Mr. Royston died Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Traylor Nursing Home. Survivors include his mother, Mattie Ruth Royston of…

(ROANOKE) Services for Pamela Meredith Tidwell, 56, of Roanoke will be Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Richie Farrow officiating. Burial will follow in Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery. Miss Tidwell died Thursday, Nov. 5, at Randolph Medical Center. Survivors include one sister, Ruth Ayres of Villa Rica,…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Mrs. Ora Lee “Bubba” Arrington, 90, of LaGrange, Ga., died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at West Georgia Medical Center. Mrs. Arrington was born March 29, 1919, in Randolph County, Ala., daughter of the late Sanford David and Lola Lou McWhorter Shelnutt. She was a member of Unity Baptist Church and was the co-owner…