The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) and the Alabama Attorney General’s (AG) office have filed suit against the town of Wadley in Randolph County Circuit Court and served notice on then-town attorney Greg Varner he must respond within 30 days to allegations of permit violations allowing pollution of the river system.However, Varner resigned in…

BETHEL—Funeral services will be Wednesday afternoon at Bethel East Baptist Church for a Bethel area infant who died in her sleep on Saturday. According to investigator Jimmy Holmes of Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, 4-month-old Jayda Leigh Henley was pronounced dead at 8:01 a.m. Saturday at the hospital. According to the report, the baby’s mother, Mallarie,…

10:30 a.m. Narcotics Anonymous meets behind the former KFC in Roanoke in the building with the blue awning. 7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, September 4 noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at The Galley Restaurant. 4:30 p.m. The Water, Sewerage and Gas Board of the Town of Wedowee meets at…

WEDOWEE—During the recent meeting of Randolph County Commission, the commissioners approved participating in a one-time Christmas bonus for state retirees. Senate Bill 49 would provide for a lump sum payment in December, based on the amount of time a former state employee worked. This will cost Randolph County $7,626 for its 35 retirees. Other business…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF IMA LOU PHILLIPS, DECEASED NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Letters of Testamentary of said deceased have been granted to the undersigned on the 27th day of August, 2008, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against…

Default having being made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Alfred L. Hunter, wife Phyllis Hunter and Christine W. Goss, an unmarried woman in favor of Jim Walter Homes, Inc. dated March 22, 2002, and recorded August 9, 2002, Book 432, Page 11, in the Office of the…

Annual subscriptions are $26 in Randolph, Chambers, Clay and Cleburne counties and $34 elsewhere. Six-month subscriptions are available for $16 and $22 respectively. Subscribers will be notified by mail a month before their subscription ends.

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. DR 08-103 SARAH SUE DAVIS MOHON, PLAINTIFF VS. LARRY WILLIAM MOHON, DEFENDANT NOTICE OF COMPLAINT To: Larry William Mohon Sarah Sue Davis Mohon has filed a Complaint for Divorce against Larry William Mohon in the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama, in which she seeks among other things, divorce and…

WOODLAND – Jayda Leigh Henley, age 4 months, of Woodland, died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. She was born April 29, 2008, in Anniston. Surviving are her mother, Mallarie Henley; grandparents Eddie and Karen Henley, all of Woodland, (formerly of Douglasville, Ga.); great-grandparents Ruth Nails of Lithia Springs, Ga., and Mack and Marlene Henley of Woodland…

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(WOODLAND) Services for Betty Wilson Holmes, 77, of Woodland, will be Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Wedowee with the Rev. Don Paris officiating. Burial will follow at Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Woodland. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday,…

(ROANOKE) Services for Roger Donald Brown, 59, of Roanoke, will be Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, at 3 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Bobby Burroughs and Randall Moore officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mr. Brown died Saturday, Aug. 30. Survivors include his wife, Joan Jackson Brown of Roanoke; one daughter,…

(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Myrtice Carol Eady, 63, of LaGrange, Ga., died Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at West Georgia Medical Center. Mrs. Eady was born Aug. 14, 1945, in Roanoke, Ala., daughter of the late Hoyt Enlow Sheets and Maudie Mae Ferguson Sheets. She had lived in LaGrange all her life and attended Friendship Baptist Church. Mrs.…

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(GREER, S.C.) Betty Jane Hester Cantrell, 69, of Greer, S.C., died Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, at McCall Hospice House. A native of Roanoke and the daughter of the late J.C. and Bessie Strickland Latta, she was a retired employee of Honeywell and a member of Community Baptist Church in LaFayette. Mrs. Cantrell is survived by…

(LINEVILLE) Services for Guy Fuller, 88, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, at Benefield Funeral Home Chapel in Lineville with tThe Revs. Gordon Taylor and Pete Grice officiating. Burial will follow in Lineville City Cemetery. Mr. Fuller died Tuesday, Aug. 26, at Clay County Hospital. He was a native and lifelong resident…

Eighteen days and roughly 40 billion dollars later, China has succeeded in hosting what some would say are the greatest Olympic Games in history. The precision, pageantry and over-the-top performances of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies surely has London shaking in her boots. Just two of the many new Chinese Olympic venues, the Bird’s Nest…

The trial in a Decatur federal courtroom of a Madison County legislator who is alleged to have accepted pay for work she didn’t do continues this week, but the opening round last week produced some interesting testimony. When the attorney for Rep. Sue Schmitz, a former Toney school teacher, asked Speaker of the House Seth…

(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Curry James Mathis, 78, of Roanoke will be Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens with the Rev. Richard Richie officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 9 to 11 a.m. on Friday. Mr. Mathis died Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Bill Nichols…