District Attorney E. Paul Jones confirmed this week that a Randolph County commissioner is under investigation.For weeks now, rumors have circulated about District 2 Commissioner Doug Sheppard’s alleged improper use of community service workers.Jones said, “The matter is being investigated by an outside agency. They have informed me that it will be a little while…
Gene Chizik shocked the Auburn nation last week when he announced Chris Todd as the starting quarterback for the Tigers this fall. Most fans were sure they had seen the last of Todd last October when Tommy Tuberville fired offensive coordinator Tony Franklin and quickly installed Kodi Burns as Auburn’s quarterback. At the time, Todd…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by H&R Custom Builders, Inc., on July 6, 2007, in favor of United Community Bank, which mortgage was recorded on July 19, 2007, in Mortgage Book 519 Page 36 in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph…
Let’s talk a little football shall we? There are a few points I want to get to, in no coherent fashion really, concerning football in this county and this great nation we live in. The first thing I want to touch on is the error I made in last week’s column that was pointed out…
210 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR PROPOSED REVISIONS TO DIVISION 6 ADEM ADMINISTRATIVE CODE Rule Title 335-6-10-.09 Specific Water Quality Criteria 335-6-11-.02 Use Classifications Notice is hereby given that a hearing before the Department of Environmental Management of the State of Alabama will be held on October 14, 2009, at 1:00 pm in the Main…
It is good news that companies are looking at the Plantation Patterns facility in Wadley—good news for the employees—good news for the county—good news for the state. As America has moved more and more away from a manufacturing economy to a service economy workers are sliding out of the middle class. While these jobs did…
Wadley Mayor Jim Dabbs said several companies have looked at the closed Plantation Patterns manufacturing facility, and he received a call about it from an interested company during the weekend, as did state Rep. Richard Laird. “There is hope as long as there are people looking at it,” Dabbs said. Showing pride and initiative, volunteers…
Two women were injured on Thursday afternoon of last week when their 1998 Oldsmobile van overturned near the intersection of Highways 22 and 77 north of Abanda. According to the Jacksonville Post of the Alabama State Troopers, the driver, Callie Baird, 28, of Wadley, was injured, along with her passenger, 58-year-old Mona Lisa Rhodes. In…
Default having been made in the terms of that mortgage executed on the 27th day of June, 2007, by Booker T. Bailey to J. Keith Marable, which said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book 518 at pages 63-70, and default continuing, and by…
Football season doesn’t officially kick off until Friday of next week, but county teams are gearing up for preseason jamboree games this week. Handley, Wadley, Woodland and Randolph County will each face off against teams to test themselves prior to their respective season openers. Handley will travel to Bibb County to play Friday night at…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA TO: JAMES SAMUEL RICHARDSON II On the 12th day of August, 2009, a petition was filed in this Court for the name change of a minor child, whose date of birth is December 31, 1997. A hearing upon this petition has been set for the 11th day of September, 2009, at 10:00…
This small black backpack looks innocent enough. School is back in session. Surely some distracted kid set it down during a walk home from school. Think again. On Thursday morning of last week, a woman turned in this backpack to Roanoke Police Department that she found on Main Street near Prestridge Ford. Inside were most…
Gov. Bob Riley has paid the law firm at which his son-in-law is a shareholder at least $650,000 in public funds to advise a “task force on gambling” Riley created earlier this year. The chairman of the House Tourism and Travel Committee calls the task force “a witch hunt.” Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow of Red…
Former Alabama Crimson Tide linebacker and Randolph County Tiger Zeke Knight is back in Tuscaloosa this fall. But this time around, he will be playing for Stillman College, a few miles down the road from Bryant-Denny Stadium. Knight had big plans going into his senior season at Alabama after coming off an exceptional junior year…
10:30 a.m. Narcotics Anonymous meets behind the former KFC in Roanoke in the building with the blue awning. 11 a.m. The Randolph_County chapter of the American Association of_Retired Persons meets at The Galley_Restaurant in Roanoke for a Dutch treat lunch. 7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, August 20 8:30 a.m.…
Montgomery-based Colonial Bank was closed Friday by the Alabama State Banking Department, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T), Winston-Salem, N.C., to assume all of the deposits of Colonial Bank. Colonial Bank’s 346…
COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF CONTINUATION OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Clyde R. Smith and wife, Sue Smith, on 27th day of February, 2002, to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County,…
In May of 1860, William Seward approached the stage of the Republican Convention in Chicago, Illinois, hoping to gain the nomination of the party. Abraham Lincoln stayed home. Nonetheless, Lincoln secured enough votes on the third ballot of the convention to become America’s 16th president on November 6. Not one soul from Bacon Level, Ala.,…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Joel Robert Hollis, an unmarried man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as a nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, on the 28th day of March, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of…
COUNTY OF RANDOLPH LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the debt secured by that certain mortgage executed by Victor F. Ward and Judy Ward, Mortgagor(s) to Small Town Bank, Mortgagee, on March 24, 2003, said Mortgage being recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County, Alabama…