Randolph County Chamber of Commerce, Randolph County Extension System and Southern Union State Community College are sponsors for the 17th year of Leadership Randolph County, a program to help identify and educate potential leaders for our communities and county.Sessions will be conducted on the second Thursday of each month, typically from 8 a.m. until 4…

Federal Aid Project No. STMAA-0022(510) RANDOLPH COUNTY, Alabama Sealed bids will be received by the Director Of Transportation at the office of the Alabama Department Of Transportation, Montgomery, Alabama until 10 AM., August 28, 2009, and at that time publicly opened for constructing the following: SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS ON SR-22 FROM 1 MILE NORTH OF CR-17…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE ALABAMA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Default having been made in the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Willo D Terry, a married man to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc acting solely as nominee for SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., its successors and assigns, dated October 11, 2006, said mortgage being recorded in Book 506,…

RANDOLPH COUNTY INVITATION TO BID The City of Roanoke is seeking bids for the abatement and demolition of nuisance properties located within the City of Roanoke. The scope of work to be completed will include, but is not limited to, the removal of debris and other materials causing the nuisance on each property. The Contractor…

A Roanoke business was damaged on Saturday when it was repeatedly struck by a car. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, officers were notified by Randolph County 911 of a white vehicle occupied by a white male striking Security Finance (in the Piggly Wiggly shopping center) with his vehicle several times and leaving.…

Five Southeastern Conference football team were listed in the first 13 spots in the USA Today preseason rankings, three of them in the Top 10. Five SEC teams, three from the Big 12, two from the Pac-10, two from the Big Ten and one from the ACC. What does that tell you? That’s how tough…

WEDOWEE—Citing budgetary and time constraints, Randolph County Commission declined helping to haul dirt to the construction site for the addition to Wedowee Middle School, but offered to help as much as possible in other ways. Commissioner Doyle Allen made the motion to decline to help based on the presentation the commission heard, which showed that…

(ROANOKE) Services for Clovis “Sherrie” Parmer Newton, 74, of Roanoke will be Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Gary Baugh and Jack Vidler officiating. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to…

I’m no Ben Cook, and I’m certainly no Paul Finebaum. But I do like to think I know what’s going on in the nation’s premiere college football conference, the SEC. I’m a homegrown southern boy with southern football engrained into my thick noggin. I feel as qualified as anyone to make preseason judgments on the…

Working on this Redneck Riviera project, I have come up with something that might be called a theory—sorta like the theory of gravity or the theory of evolution—an idea supported by a lot of evidence but can’t be proven to satisfy everyone, and I won’t even try. My theory is this. South of the Intercoastal…

(FIVE POINTS) Mrs. Bainor Duffie Cash, 94, of Five Points, formerly of Valley, died Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, at her residence. Services were Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 4 p.m. EDT at McCarthy Funeral Home in West Point, Ga., with the Rev. Rusty Williams officiating. Burial followed at Shawmut Cemetery in Lanett. Mrs. Cash is survived…

(ROANOKE) Services for Wilson Woodrow Yarbrough, 91, of Roanoke will be Thursday, August 13, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Bethany Lime Christian Church with the Revs. Lenden Fields and Greg Norred officiating. Mr. Yarbrough will lie in state at the church one hour before the service. Burial to follow in Wehadkee Cemetery. The family will…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Ethel Haynes Ware, 97, of LaGrange, Ga., died Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, at Hospice LaGrange. Mrs. Ware, a native of Troup County, Ga., was born April 28, 1912, and was the daughter of the late Zelma Haynes and Willie Allen Haynes. She was married to the late Zelma Ware. She worked for many…

(OPELIKA) A private graveside service for James Wilson McCarley, 74, of Opelika was Thursday, July 30, 2009, at 11 a.m. Burial was in Garden Hills Cemetery. The Reverend Scott Bowen of First Presbyterian Church of Opelika officiated. Mr. McCarley died Tuesday, July 28, at East Alabama Medical Center. He was born May 27, 1935, in…

(ROANOKE) Laura Lashley, 93, of Roanoke, formerly of LaFayette, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, at her residence. Services were held Friday, Aug. 7, at 2 p.m. CDT at Antioch Baptist Church in LaFayette with the Rev. Wayne Barrett officiating. Burial followed at LaFayette City Cemetery. Mrs. Lashley is survived by two children, Johnny Lashley of…

(BOWDON, Ga.) Ina Lovvorn Cohen, 81, of Bowdon, Ga., died Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. Mrs. Cohen was born July 11, 1928, in Cleburne County to the late James Ollie and Lucinda Huckeba Yarbrough. She was retired as a quality assurance supervisor from Bremen-Bowdon Investment Company, and she was a member of Indian Creek Baptist Church.…

(ANNISTON) Services for Velma Lorene Stewart Boyd, 87, were at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, at New Home United Methodist Church, Wedowee, with the Revs. Benny Cosper, Gary Stewart, Tommy Burke and James Robertson officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Mrs. Boyd died Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Noland Hospital/RMC in Anniston. A native…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Mrs. Jessie Will King, 91, of LaGrange, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, at West Georgia Medical Center, LaGrange. Mrs. King was born Sept. 28, 1917, in Rock Mills, daughter of the late Jesse J. Knight and Eula Ray Bonner Knight. She had lived in LaGrange most of her life, and in years past…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Anita Pound Poore, 77, of LaGrange, Ga., died Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, at Hospice LaGrange. Ms. Poore was born Dec. 14, 1931, in Randolph County, Ala., daughter of the late James Wilner Pound and Vesta Bagley Pound. She had lived in LaGrange most of her life and was a member of First United…

(BIRMINGHAM) Jewell W. Harwell, 93, of Birmingham died Aug. 6, 2009. She was born on March 10, 1916, in Woodland. She was preceded in death by her parents, James V. and Clyde Stewart; brother, Walter Stewart; sister, Lora Dobson; and a grandson, all of Randolph County; and sisters, Mary Daniel of Lanett and Wilma Nelson…