ArrestsJeremy James Holloway, 30 of 71 County Rd. 236, Wedowee – domestic violence (harassment) – April 23Derick O’Neal Fincher, 23, of Talladega – third-degree theft of property, theft of services, second-degree criminal mischief – April 18James Anthony Wright, 23, of 155 County Rd. 808, Wedowee – DUI, eluding police, reckless endangerment, third-degree domestic violence and…

WEDOWEE – Spring is in the air and personnel changes are on the agendas of local school boards. During last week’s regular meeting of Randolph County Board of Education, the board met in executive session for approximately two hours with all of its principals, special education coordinator Lemoyen Apostle and personnel director Stephan Frank. Following…

State superintendents and their offices are under the gun after they defeated bills powerful legislator Ken Guin wanted passed. Guin, D-Carbon Hill, sponsored bills to require physical education periods and hiring of nutritionists. After state superintendents defeated his bills, Guin who is majority leader in the House, introduced and obtained passage of House Resolution 564,…

A few readers have chided me for taking too lightly the hardships imposed by the rising cost of gasoline. I want them to know that I empathize with people who are struggling to afford enough fuel to take them to work and back and then to the supermarket, where fuel costs are also driving up…

The used book sale fundraiser for the Randolph County Animal Shelter will be this Saturday, May 3, at Chris Mitchum’s warehouse on Main Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Chuck Smith, a shelter board member, said Mitchum has built even more bookshelves for the used books. They have so many books they have taken…

The Randolph County Job Fair will be Friday, May 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at El Bethel Baptist Church on U.S. 431 between Roanoke and Wedowee. Randolph County JOBS Task Force will sponsor this job fair. Everyone is invited. There is no charge to participate. More than 40 employers, schools, military and public…

Hurricane season is over. Been over a while. But I waited until now to say anything about it, ’cause the way last year’s predictions went, something else could have popped up and roared in. It was not a good year for predictions. Except mine. I’m sure you remember how back before the hurricane season which…

More often than not, unless there is a rare piece of legislation floating around in Montgomery that is actually good for the state and its citizens, we breathe a sigh of relief when a regular session of the Alabama Legislature ends with few bills having been passed. The expression “no news is good news” may…

COUNTY OF RANDOLPH PROBATE COURT NOTICE OF HEARING TO PROBATE WILL IN RE: ESTATE OF JAMES WOODFORD CARTER TO: Larry Baylock, 1648 Huffman Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45403 Pat Baylock, 529 Qunn Road, West Alexander, Ohio 45381 Patricia Anne Millingarde, P.O. Box 1754, Byron, California 94514 Cathy Sprouse, 17910 Stingel Road, Escalon, California 95320 You are…

(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Manley Cagle, 84, of Roanoke will be Thursday, May 1, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens, with the Revs. Truman Norred, Richard Richie and Gary Baugh officiating. The family will receive friends at Quattlebaum Funeral Home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Cagle died Tuesday, April 29,…

(ROANOKE) Services for William Bynum Bailey, 87, of Roanoke will be Monday, April 28, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Andrew Dressler officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, April 28. Mr.…

(ROANOKE) Services for Douglas Grice Moring, 80, of Roanoke were Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 4 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Steve Baccus officiating. Mr. Moring died Sunday, April 20, at his home. Survivors include his wife, Helen French Moring of Roanoke; one stepdaughter, Debbie McMurray of Roanoke; two stepsons, Rick and…

(ECLECTIC) Valeria Barsh, 83, of Eclectic died Sunday, April 27, 2008. Services will be Wednesday, April 30, at 2 p.m. at Gassett Funeral Home Chapel, with Minister Miles Crouch officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Barsh is survived by her husband, Hoyt T. Barsh; one daughter, Sharon Brazell; one brother, Joseph M.…

(ROANOKE) Services for Judith Adell Bouknight Robinson, 65, of Roanoke, formerly of Greenville, S.C., will be Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Jeff Holder officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday. Mrs. Robinson died Sunday, April 27,…

(ROANOKE) Services for Oliver “Dickie” Dean Smith, 47, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Lamar Smith officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday. Mr. Smith died Saturday, April 26, at Hospice LaGrange. Survivors…

(ROANOKE) Services for William Bynum Bailey, 87, of Roanoke will be Monday, April 28, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Andrew Dressler officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, April 28. Mr.…

(ROANOKE) Services for James Hugh Powers, 52, of Roanoke, will be Friday, April 25, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Rocky Branch Church with the Revs. Clayton Scott, Joe Bob Traylor and Greg Norred officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday, April 24, from…

(VALLEY) Milford Bishop, 84, of Valley died Sunday, April 20, 2008, at Randolph Medical Center in Roanoke. Services were Thursday, April 24, at 2 p.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Robert Huff officiating. Burial will follow at Shawmut Cemetery. Mr. Bishop is survived by two sons, Larry M. Bishop…

(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Mrs. Willie V. Arndt, 80, of LaGrange, Ga., died Sunday, April 20, 2008, at Hospice LaGrange. Mrs. Arndt was born Oct. 19, 1927, in Rock Mills, daughter of the late Willie Taylor Allen and Pearl Lee Brewer Allen Pilgrim. She was Baptist by faith and worked with the Foster Grandparents at Hollis Hand…

(WADLEY) Services for Geraldine Blanks Weldon, 71, of Wadley, will be held Friday, April 25, 2008, at 2 p.m. at the Beulah Christian Church with the Rev. Phillip Gore and Mrs. Carrie Gore officiating. Burial will follow in the Wadley City Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7…