Local law enforcement officers discovered two mobile drug labs within two days last week.According to Randolph County Narcotics Unit officer David Cofield, on Wednesday RCNU stopped Joey Wesley Waldrop, 25, of 7343 Old Hwy. 431, Newell, in his vehicle on County Road 134 in the Morrison Crossroads area. Waldrop was found to have the components…
It was only a matter of time before the Woodland Lady Bobcats reclaimed the title to the girls’ county basketball tournament. That was exactly what the Lady Bobcats did Saturday night in crushing the Randolph County Lady Tigers, 77-41, to earn the championship. “We haven’t won it since about 2001, so we were ready to…
WADLEY—Mayor Jim Dabbs gave a water and sewer update recently, saying that as they were meeting utilities workers Chad Hopkins, Larry Wilkes and Kenny Battle were waist deep in water repairing a four-inch water main that broke that morning. Dabbs said on this extremely cold day they had been working on the break all day.…
Burger King wants us guys to go around smelling like hamburgers. There are worse smells, but will this one attract the girls? The fast-food chain has launched a new men’s body spray called “Flame,” which it advertises as “the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.” You can buy it for $3.99 a…
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. Roanoke Mayor Mike Fisher will speak. 6 p.m. Wadley Town Council meets at Wadley Town…
Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett spent a night in jail after being sentenced by U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon for not providing nutritionally adequate meals for county jail prisoners. By skimping on the meals, Sheriff Bartlett was able to make $212,000 over three years with surplus funds from what was paid by the state for…
“You can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes, you get what you need,” are song lyrics that could be applied to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. While it is true he is short on experience he is long on ideas and has a charismatic personality that may,…
ORDINANCE NO. 829 An ordinance to amend the Zoning Ordinance No. 682 of the City of Roanoke, Alabama, and the zoning map of Roanoke, Alabama, enacted pursuant to the authority granted by Title 11-52-70 through 84, inclusive of the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended; repealing all conflicting ordinances and maps, and provisions for an…
Public confidence in the new president to deal with the nation’s most pressing problems is high. About seven in ten polled say they believe Barack Obama will do the right thing when it comes to mending the economy, preventing terrorism and dealing with Iraq. Many who were polled by The Pew Research Center for the…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jane M. Forbes, an unmarried person, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, on April 19, 2006, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama,…
Know what a “nanometer” is? Me neither. Until I looked it up and found that a nanometer is “a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a meter.” Huh? It “equals ten angstrom.” Oh. And “is the most common unit to describe the wave length of light.” Ah. If light…
(WOODLAND) Services for Mr. William Harvey “Bill” Rollins, Sr., 88, of Woodland will be Thursday, Jan. 22, at 1 p.m. at Woodland Congregational Methodist Church with the Revs. Earl Rollins, Donald Spradlin and Vernon Willis officiating. Burial will follow in Highway First Congregational Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Woodland Congregational Methodist…
(WEDOWEE) Ruthie Lee Houston Wright, 78, of County Road 33, Wedowee, died Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Services will be Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m. at Friendship Baptist Church, 5979 County Rd. 26, Wadley, with the pastor, Rev. Calvin Trammell, officiating and burial in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Wright…
(NEWNAN, Ga.) Norma “Lynne” Monson, 57, of Newnan, Ga., formerly of Randolph County, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, at Piedmont Newnan Hospital. Graveside services will be Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 2 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens, Roanoke. McKoon Funeral Home, Newnan, Ga.
(ROANOKE) Raymond Adamson Jr., 63, of Chestnut Street, Roanoke, died Sunday morning, Jan. 18, 2009, at his residence. Public visitation and viewing for Mr. Adamson will be Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Services will be Thursday, Jan. 22, at 11 a.m. at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Welch, with the pastor, Rev. Mario McDaniel…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Dr. Gerald Waddell Everett, 84, of Roanoke will be Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, at 2 p.m. at High Pine Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Bobby Burroughs officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21. Dr. Everett died Monday, Jan.…
(ROOPVILLE, Ga.) Horace Almon Johnson, 87, of Roopville, Ga., died Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Mr. Johnson was born July 29, 1921, in Carroll County, Ga., son of the late Walter E. Johnson and Ruth Cole Johnson. During 1940, he helped his father and neighbors build…
(JACKSON’S GAP) Graveside service for Sharon Lee Stephens, 49, of Jackson’s Gap will be Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Eagle Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Mark Rasbury will officiate. Mrs. Stephens died Sunday, Jan. 18 at her residence. She was born on Aug. 25, 1959, in Haverhill, Mass., to Robert Thomas…
(FIVE POINTS) Beatrice Alsabrook, 87, of Five Points died Friday, Jan. 16, 2009, at her home. Mrs. Alsabrook was born in March 7, 1921. She was homemaker and a member of Community Baptist Church, LaFayette. Surviving are seven daughters, Faye Green of Fredonia, Bell Clark of Huguley, Geraldine McDaniel of Woodland, Gertrude Riley of Ozark,…
(WEDOWEE) Ronald Michael Foldenauer, 75, of Wedowee, formerly of Riverdale, Ga., died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, at Wedowee Hospital. The family will receive friends at Benefield Funeral Home, Wedowee, on Monday, Jan. 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be no funeral service. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Foldenauer of Wedowee; one daughter, Michele…