It’s time to put on my time-penetrating binoculars and share with my readers my annual foregleams of the new year—foregleams that have proved in the past to be 99.44 percent baloney.Here’s what I see for 2009:January: Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first president who wasn’t born on the mainland of North America. Pastor Rick…
Buddy and Diane Harpole, owners of Industrial Pallet Supply Inc., started small and are now one of three such companies in the United States “that does what I do,” he said. What they do is recycle everything they can. Stacks and stacks of a variety of materials are located throughout the huge building, but he…
Dr. Karen Corson, a native of Randolph County, has been named Environmental Health Officer of the Year 2008 for the U.S. Navy, where she serves as a lieutenant commander. This award recognizes the Navy environmental health officer who exhibits the highest Navy core values, professionalism, initiative, leadership, and dedication to the practice of Navy environmental…
The following events occurred in the county during the past year. From the beginning: Jan. 9 Plantation Patterns’ parent company, Meadowcraft in Birmingham, moved all its wrought iron manufacturing to its facility in Wadley, creating an unknown number of new jobs. Jan. 9 Lucy Green, of Woodland, celebrated her 107th birthday. The oldest known Randolph…
(WEDOWEE) Allen Stribling, 52, of County Road 15, Wedowee, died Thursday evening, Dec. 25, 2008, at Clay County Medical Center in Ashland. Services for Mr. Stribling will be Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009, at noon at Weathers Heights Church of Christ with Brother Henry Nelson, pastor, officiating, and burial in Stephens Mission United Methodist Church Cemetery.…
RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that mortgage executed by Peter Allen Zittere on or about October 11, 2006 to First Coweta Bank, which said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Record 504 at pages 795-797 and…
(ROANOKE) Services for Fred Manley Burke, 80, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Richie Farrow and Gary Baugh officiating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on…
(GRIFFIN, Ga.) Jack W. Rushing, 86, of Griffin, Ga., formerly of Randolph County, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at Spalding Regional Medical Center, in Griffin. Mr. Rushing was born Aug. 4, 1922, son of the late Alonzo H. Rushing and Fannie C. Denton Rushing. He was a longtime resident of Valley and LaGrange, Ga. A…
(DAYTON, Ohio) Charlie Hines, 67, of Dayton, Ohio, died Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. He was born Aug. 7, 1941 in Crawford, Ala., to the late Eulus and Carrie Hines. He was preceded in death by his wife, Latha Bernice; a son, Anthony; and brothers, Fred and Willie. Survivors include mother of children, Geraldine; sons, Charlie…
(ALEXANDER CITY) Services for James Thelmon Mattox, 74, of Alexander City will be Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home with Randy Anderson officiating. Burial will follow in the Lystra Cemetery in Ashland on Saturday, Jan. 3, at 11 am. The family will receive friends on Friday, Dec.…
(BOWDON, Ga.) Joseph Lloyd “Joe” Young of Bowdon, Georgia, died Dec. 22, 2008. He was 66. Mr. Young was born in Randolph County, Ala., on Aug. 10, 1942, to Gus and Murrah Butler Young. He was a retired grading contractor, having owned and operated Young’s Equipment Services in Dawsonville, Ga. He was a member of…
(BOWDON, Ga.) Larry Williams of Bowdon, Ga., died Dec. 23, 2008. He was 66. He was born Oct. 16, 1942, in Randolph County, Ala., to Thomas Noel and Alvaretta Gravitt Williams. Mr. Williams was a retired truck driver and was a member of Corinth Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his father, Noel…
“I’ll be home for Christmas You can plan on me…I’ll be home for Christmas if only in my dreams,” is one of the saddest songs to me. I love it but it is sad. I am not one to cry. It is the rare movie, book or song that will bring tears to my eyes…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness described in and secured by that certain mortgage executed by Angelia F. Smith, an unmarried woman to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., (MERS) acting solely as nominee for SouthStar Funding, LLC dated the 7th day of February, 2007, and Recorded in Volume 511, Page 491…
In 1921, Henry Ford, accompanied by Thomas Edison, came to North Alabama with a vision of transforming it into “a 75-mile city” from Muscle Shoals eastward. Ford also said he would employ a million workers. The news of Ford’s plan caused a real-estate panic. Speculators began buying up land along the Tennessee River in Colbert…
Proration has come again, an all too familiar experience for Alabama schools. This week the governor declared proration, and he will institute spending cuts for education that will be ugly and inherently hurtful to children and young people. Proration is an ugly but familiar word for Alabama. Since 1980, Alabama’s schools have gone into proration…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jefferson L. Shelton and Pamela P. Shelton, husband and wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Compass Bank, on the 25th day of March, 2008, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…
It was roughly 15 years ago. My wife was pregnant with our first child. I was with a bunch of historians at one of those historian receptions when a Yankee-lady of my acquaintance came up and asked, the way Yankees ask: “Why are you having children at your age?” The question took me aback. My…
Consumer spending is not the only thing dropping due to the economic downturn. As more job losses occur, more people are in need of a helping hand. Unfortunately, charitable giving also suffers in financial hard times. Christmas this year won’t be the same for millions of people nationwide. Although the organizations that have always tried…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO.: CV 2008-116 DAVID MARLOW, PLAINTIFF VS. SHARON GRIFFITH MARLOW, DEFENDANT NOTICE OF SALE By Order of the Circuit Court of Randolph County entered on the 16th day of December, 2008, the undersigned, John Tinney, as Commissioner appointed to conduct the sale, will offer for sale at public auction the following…