CE Verizon Services Corporation, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is proposing to construct a new telecommunications tower approximately 600 feet northwest of the intersection of CR 333 and CR 610 in Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama. The proposed tower will be a 250-foot self-support tower. Any interested party wishing to submit comments regarding the effect the…

(WALNUT HILL, Fla.) Myrties W. Edge, 91, of Walnut Hill, Fla., died Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at her residence. Graveside services were Saturday, July 5, at 11 a.m. at New Hope Church Cemetery in Abanda. Mrs. Edge was born in Randolph County, Ala., on April 19, 1917, to the late Wyatt and Captola Yates Mickle.…

Randolph Medical Center has been awarded another federal grant, according to Tim Harlin, Randolph Medical Center Administrator, that will target improvement of rural health care. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a department of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has just awarded RMC a $540,000 Network Development Grant to advance collaboration between…

Seagrove Beach, Florida. County road 395 connects US 98 to County Road 30-A, which local boosters designated “Scenic 30-A” and it is, mostly. As beach developers pushed inland during the late, lamented housing boom, they built on both sides of CR 395. Today the road divides success from failure and offers a good look at…

Official qualifying for the August 26 municipal elections that began July 2 and ends at 5 p.m. July 15, is continuing with a number of people in the four municipalities throwing their hats in the ring. Through Tuesday, July 8, candidates who had qualified for Roanoke mayor include Mike Fisher, District 5 councilman Walter Sudduth…

CASE NO. CV2008-0082 CHARLES D. BOONE, JR., PLAINTIFF VS. One 1976 Harley Davidson FLH Electraglide motorcycle, VIN# 2A49297H6 and any person, firm or entity claiming an interest in the aforesaid motorcycle, Defendants NOTICE To: Anyone claiming any interest in one 1976 Harley Davidson FLH Electraglide motorcycle, VIN# 2A49297H6 You are hereby notified that Plaintiff, Charles…

There’s something about high school football. It’s hard to explain to people who haven’t been involved with it or people who live in towns or go to schools where football isn’t a big deal. Luckily, that’s not the case around here. I almost feel like I’m preaching to the choir when I write about what…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF C.L. HOLCOMBE, DECEASED NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to Order entered by the Probate Court of Randolph County, the undersigned will offer for public auction, to the highest bidder, the following described property situated, lying and being in downtown Woodland, Alabama: Commencing at the intersection of the westerly ROW…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Anthony Bryant Calhoun, and Misty Ann Calhoun, husband and wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Synovus Mortgage Corp., on the 7th day of June, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…

Now that it is July, football season is here. Well, not exactly here but this is the month football season unofficially kicks off in the southeast with the coming of the Southeastern Conference Football Media Days in Birmingham the end of the month. Most teams open “fall” training camp in less than a month and…

RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that mortgage executed by Peter 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 later…

WOODLAND – A Woodland teenager was arrested on Thursday of last week after leading law enforcement on a chase. Members of the Randolph County Narcotics Unit were involved in the chase of a 2000 Honda Civic that started on Highway 48, went to County Road 103, then to County Road 462 and back onto 103,…

HEFLIN – A Woodland man died Saturday afternoon in a vehicle accident in Cleburne County. According to the Jacksonville post of the Alabama State Troopers, Joaquin Rodriguez, 45, was the driver of a 1991 Ford Expedition, the only vehicle involved. The accident happened on County Road 8, south of Heflin.

Gov. Bob Riley has just made a $63-million raid on the state’s savings account, and the State Supreme Court has approved it. Tuscaloosa businessman and Riley detractor Stan Pate sued the governor, contending Riley erred when he put $63 million in interest awarded Alabama from the Exxon Mobil litigation into the state’s General Fund instead…

DICKERT – Randolph County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the untimely death of a Wadley woman. Her boyfriend found the body of Brenda Kaye Jenkins, 38, on Sunday. She was lying in the floor at his home in the Dickert community when he returned home from a family reunion. The boyfriend had last seen her early…

Some of the “experts” brought in to advise in planning Roanoke’s future have said we need to be focusing on what we have rather than trying to snare the large project or industry. Too many people, many with more resources and incentives than we have, are trying to recruit the big industry, and we just…

(WOODLAND) Services for Mrs. Arlis Sears Bass, 89, of Woodland will be held Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Bear Creek United Methodist Church with the Revs. Gary Henderson and Cloyse Johnson officiating. Mrs. Bass will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining…

The Randolph County Farmers Market in Roanoke will open Saturday, July 12, at 7 a.m. and will remain open until all the produce and other items are sold. If you have local home-grown products and vegetables there will be buyers for your products adjacent to the old Terry Manufacturing building on U.S. Highway 431 South.…