The Southeastern Conference is a runaway train of commerce, something that would have been unthinkable forty or fifty years ago. The question that this development asks is simply, is it better? The answer depends on how you look at it.In the 1960s and ’70s the conference had legendary coaches named Bear Bryant, Shug Jordan, Johnny…

10:30 a.m. Narcotics Anonymous meets behind the former KFC in Roanoke in the building with the blue awning. 1 p.m. Until further notice, Wadley First United Methodist Church Food_Bank will be open the second Wednesday of each month from 1 to 2 p.m. Recipients must meet federal guidelines. Applicants should bring one of the following:…

I have a unique idea that will change the high school football postseason forever. As we all know, Alabama’s six high school football classifications have a 32-team playoff at the end of the season to determine the champion in each of those classifications. I’m not sure that playoff system is the best way to determine…

RCSO arrests Michael Denham, 52, of 6235 County Rd. 26, Wadley – second-degree receiving stolen property – July 6. This is in addition to other charges in late June. Additional items were found and identified at Denham’s home that had been reported by his neighbor to have been stolen. Timothy Keith Pool, 46, of 863…

Miss Peggy is a pushover for anything free, which explains why we’re driving around in a luminescent Toyota Matrix instead of a sedate gray Honda Civic. It happened last winter when Miss Peggy told me that the local Honda dealership was offering a free George Foreman grill to anyone who would test drive one of…

Wadley Mayor Jim Dabbs said he was informed by the attorney representing the city in the Meadowcraft bankruptcy case that on July 1 the debtors made a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware to allow them to take bids for the sale of the company. As of that time there were no qualified buyers…

Volunteers did not hesitate when they learned Pat Awbrey would donate flowers for the pots downtown. They arrived with a cart and began selecting flowers to replace and supplement what was in the city’s pots. “I think Pat was very generous. What fun it is to pick out whatever you want,” Evelyn Norton said. It…

COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE AND SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY UNDER ‘7-9A-604(2) OF THE CODE OF ALABAMA Default having been made in the payment of indebtedness secured by a security agreement and that certain mortgage executed by Marlon Stewart and wife, Rhonda Stewart, on the 21st day of August, 2001 to Bank…

[email protected] Although slave importation was banned in 1808, some 250,000 more slaves were illegally imported into America from 1808 to 1860. However, as early as the War of 1812, African-Americans were willing, able or chosen to fight the British for America’s defense, and they did so with unusual valor. In 1846, they volunteered to serve…

COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE 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 the 27th day of February, 2002 to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County, Alabama,…

The Third Annual Lake Wedowee Air Junkies’ Ski Tournament, a fundraiser for Randolph County Animal Shelter, will be Saturday at Chimney Cove on Lake Wedowee. The show will feature professional exhibitions by the Col. Biggs Alabama Show Ski Team of Montgomery. Their half-hour show includes pyramids, barefoot skiing and other types of trick skiing like…

We grew up loving Michael Jackson. It is so sad they are burying him today. It would have been so good to see him returning to his performing glory instead of remembering the weird and strange person he had become. He was beautiful until the many plastic surgeries ruined his face. In the recent rehearsals…

We’re closing in on Mississippi and as is often the case, that’s not a good thing. A report released last week shows Alabama is second in the nation in adult obesity, with nearly a third—31.2 percent—classified as obese. Mississippi leads at 32.5 percent. Only two other states—West Virginia and Tennessee—top 30 percent. The future is…

(FAYETTEVILLE, Ga.) Meveline “Mickey” Johnston Bateman of Fayetteville, Ga., died June 30, 2009, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 84. Mickey was born Sept. 14, 1924, in Randolph County, Ala., to John Orion and Effie Pearl Chaffin Johnston. Her mother, Effie Pearl, died in 1926 and her father then married…

(BIG POOL, Md.) Elizabeth Avery Morton, 74, of Big Pool, Md., died at home Sunday, June 28, 2009. Services were Thursday, July 2, at 10:30 a.m. EDT in the Fort Valley, Ga., United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall with the Rev. James Hamlin officiating. Graveside services followed at 3:30 p.m. at Marseilles Cemetery in West Point,…

(ROANOKE) Services for Kenneth Larry Waldrep, 59, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Clifford DeLee officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday, July 6.…

(WOODLAND Services for Harold Eugene Barker, 71, of Woodland will be Monday, July 6, 2009 at 2 p.m. at Jordan Chapel Methodist Church with the Rev. Brian Moore and Rev. Theron Williams officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Barker died Friday, July 3, at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. Mr. Barker…

(BROOKLET, Ga.) Thomas Lee Muldrew, 77, of Brooklet, Ga., died Friday, July 3, 2009, at Ogeechec Area Hospice Inpatient Facility. The Randolph County native was a 1950 graduate of Handley High School and a Korean War veteran of the U.S. Navy. He graduated from Auburn University in 1958 with an industrial management degree. He and…

Meveline “Mickey” Johnston Bateman died June 30, 2009, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 84. Mickey was born Sept. 14, 1924, in Randolph County, Ala., to John Orion and Effie Pearl Chaffin Johnston. Her mother, Effie Pearl, died in 1926 and her father then married Pearl Edwards. Mickey met the…