A week before the election the two candidates for a single seat on the Alabama Supreme Court had raised and spent or had money spent on their behalf totaling over $5 million. The final tally won’t be known until February when the last spending reports are due.The two candidates, Appeals Court Judge Greg Shaw of…

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. —Psalm 121:1 It cometh about this time every year, when Miss Peggy and I pack up a few things and head for the hills. There, we hole up for a week with our friends Ron and Donna from Greensboro, N.C.,in a…

Here we have just celebrated one of the most popular non-holidays on the calendar. Even with the economy sour, maybe even because of the bad taste we have right now, Americans spent money to dress up like “ghouls and ghosties and long-legged beasties” and went off to go “bump in the night.” Good for us.…

(ROANOKE) Services for Essie Hill Pollard, 93, of Roanoke will be Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Oak Grove Church of Christ, Woodland, with ministers Ricky Murphy and Alan Daniel officiating. Mrs. Pollard will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial to follow in Haywood Cemetery. Mrs. Pollard…

A Veteran’s Day remembrance will be held this Saturday, Nov. 8, at 10 a.m. at the city auditorium in Roanoke, next to Handley High School. Everyone is invited, particularly veterans and their families. Mayor Mike Fisher will give the welcome. Fisher and city purchasing agent Tim Jacobs are overseeing the event. Don Quick, a Vietnam…

(WINSTON, Ga.) Dallas Elliott Mize, 38, of Winston, Ga., died Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. He was born Sept. 16, 1970, in Roanoke, the son of Brenda Pate Francis and the late Elliott Mize. Mr. Mize was a partner at Best Net Auto Sales. Besides his father, he was preceded in death by his son, Tyler…

(WADLEY) Services for Roxie Loucille Cockrell Green, 91, of Wadley will be Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, at 10 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Revs. Ritchie Farrow and Martha Hauer officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, Lineville. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 9 to 10 a.m.…

(WADLEY) Services for Inez Mae Kent Wright, 74, of Wadley will be Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Forresters Chapel Methodist Church with the Revs. Margie Boggs and Claude Bennett officiating. Mrs. Wright will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining church cemetery.…

(WEDOWEE) Services for Sandra Gilman White, 63, of Wedowee will be Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Morrison’s Chapel Methodist Church, Heflin, with the Rev. Frank Rasbury officiating. Mrs. White will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive…

(ROANOKE) Services for Essie Hill Pollard, 93, of Roanoke will be Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Oak Grove Church of Christ, Woodland, with ministers Ricky Murphy and Alan Daniel officiating. Mrs. Pollard will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial to follow in Haywood Cemetery. Mrs. Pollard…

(MONTGOMERY) Edna P. Champion, 88, of Montgomery, died Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, after a lengthy illness. Graveside services were Friday, Oct. 31, at 1 p.m. at Greenwood Cemetery with Revs. Bobby Hicks and George Milam officiating. Born Aug. 26, 1920, in Roanoke, she lived briefly in Deatsville before making Montgomery her home. She was preceded…

(TRUSSVILLE) Wilma Cofield Carter died on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, at home with her family at the age of 78. She was born in Randolph County on Feb. 16, 1930, the daughter of Albert Grissom and Annie H. Cofield. She graduated from Woodland High School and went on to study elementary education and received the…

(WADLEY) Services for Charles Robert Huckabee, 67, of Wadley, will be Friday, Oct. 31, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30. Mr.…

Beauregard 27, Handley 21; Piedmont 42, Woodland 33; Wadley 44, Beulah 0; Cedar Bluff 42, Randolph County 14 Beauregard 27, Handley 21 Handley’s defense couldn’t quite hold off the speedy Hornets of Beauregard, falling in the final game of the season 27-21 in Beauregard Quarterback Darius Finley accounted for all three Handley touchdowns. The first…

(WADLEY) Services for Inez Mae Kent Wright, 74, of Wadley will be Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Forresters Chapel Methodist Church with the Revs. Margie Boggs and Claude Bennett officiating. Mrs. Wright will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining church cemetery.…

(CARROLLTON, Ga.) Neil Lewis Walker, 66, of Carrollton, Ga., died Oct. 29, 2008. He was born April 9, 1942 in Dadeville, Ala., the son of the late Elizabeth Sharp Walker and Charlie R. Walker. Mr. Walker was a retired insurance agent having worked for Georgia Farm Bureau and a member of Shady Grove Baptist Church.…

(WEDOWEE) Services for B.H. Pitts, 95, of Wedowee, will be Friday, Oct. 31, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Midway Methodist Church with the Revs. Cloyse Johnson and Marty Schwartz officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens, Roanoke. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 30…

(ROANOKE) Services for Elsie Parrish Wood Ritch, 87, of Roanoke, will be Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church with the Revs. Richard Richie and Bobby Kirby officiating. Mrs. Ritch will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in Concord Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery,…

(CARROLLTON, Ga.) Irene Reese Wilder, 91, of Carrollton, Ga., died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. She was born May 22, 1917, in Carroll County, Ga., the daughter of the late Permilly Elizabeth Driver Reese and Frank Lewis Reese. Mrs. Wilder was a retired textile worker having worked for American Thread Company. She was also the last…

(CARROLLTON, Ga.) Harold Jasper Stacey, 90, of Carrollton, Ga., died Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Mr. Stacey was born March 26, 1918, in Heard County, Ga., son of the late Jasper Isom Sticher and Lena Bentley Sticher Phillips. Mr. Stacey painted tin rooftops with Morris in Norfolk, Va., and then worked for Barnes Freight Line for…