(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 5…
Rep. Richard Laird, who represents District 37 (Clay, Randolph and Chambers counties) in the Alabama Legislature returned Saturday from a week-long trip to South Korea and China to visit two companies who are going to locate in Chambers County only to find someone had voted his machine in the statehouse while he was gone. He…
“Shop, shop, shop and donate, donate, donate,” said Kari Finley in announcing the reprieve for the Roanoke Goodwill Store that had been scheduled to close before May 1. Finley, media and events manager for Goodwill Southern Rivers, announced Friday: “We’re going to keep the store open at least until the end of the year.” The…
Georgia law enforcement is investigating an armed bank robbery that took place last Thursday in Bowdon. On April 17 at 4:55 p.m. a white male suspect entered the BBT Bank at 207 W. College St. in Bowdon, Ga. The suspect approached the teller and produced a pistol, then ordered the employees together. The robber then…
There’s an old quote that goes like this: “If you love the law and like sausage, don’t watch either being made.” It is certainly an apt description of our lawmaking process in Alabama where anything can happen at any given moment. In my adult lifetime alone the following events have been observed: A senator physically…
Wadley head baseball and basketball coach Jim Striplin was hired as the head football coach at New Brockton High School last week. Striplin, who was also the defensive coordinator for the perennially playoff-bound Bulldogs, said he felt the time was right to take the next step in his coaching career by taking the job at…
With only Arkansas left to finish spring football, it’s time to reflect on what we have learned from the 11 teams that have wrapped up their drills and played their spring games. At Alabama, a whole lot of people had spare time on their hands again this year as around 78,000 fans found their way…
WEDOWEE—Wedowee Clinic welcomes a new nurse practitioner, Kim Buckalew. Buckalew was a nurse for 10 years prior to becoming a nurse practitioner in 1998. She worked at the emergency room and in urgent care at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center in Anniston and at a Gadsden hospital. She also worked in occupational medicine at the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has come out in support of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two enclaves that are seeking to separate themselves from Georgia and become independent states. I am against it foursquare, and not just because an ex-KGB mogul is for it. I feel a little like the Baptist deacon in the oft-told story…
The Wadley Bulldogs were bounced from the first round of the state baseball playoffs by South Lamar in two consecutive games in Wadley Friday. South Lamar, the class 1A Area 8 runner-up, downed the Dogs 5-2 in the first game and 5-4 in the second game. Wadley head coach Jim Striplin said he wasn’t displeased…
(FIVE POINTS) Essie P. Oliver, 67, of 1964 County Road 251, Five Points, died Thursday, April 17, 2008, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Services will be Wednesday, April 23, at 1 p.m. at Canaan Baptist Church, Welch, with the Rev. Mario McDaniel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include a daughter,…
Randolph County golfers now have the county’s first public golf course to look forward too. Last week, Chimney Cove unveiled plans to create a public golf course to be located on Lake Wedowee in the Chimney Cove community. The immediate course plans detail a 9-hole course to be built surrounded by scenic house lots that…
It’s no wonder the state legislature gets so little done in the public good. And it’s no wonder legislators often seem to have trouble getting along with each other. The experience of Rep. Richard Laird, who unknowingly voted for a bill while he was in South Korea on an industry-hunting trip when someone else cast…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Charles Houston Smith, an unmarried man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for First Mortgage Group, Inc., on the 10th day of July, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate…
So I don’t know if you football fanatics have heard, but the NFL draft is coming up this Sunday. Also, we’re less than two weeks away from the start of spring football practices in Randolph County. So that got me thinking, which is a dangerous thing. What if the NFL had lax rules about drafting…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. CV-2008-051 LURAINOR S. KIRBY AND J.I. KIRBY “AKA” ISHMAEL J. KIRBY PLAINTIFF VS. E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 and W 1/2 of SE 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 10, Township 20S Range 12 E which lies north of the big branch, and all persons known or…
Notice is hereby given that the Roanoke Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing pursuant to Section 11-52-77 of the Code of Alabama on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Roanoke City Hall. The purpose of this hearing shall be to receive public comments on an application submitted by Cindy…
Spring break. Went South. Found controversy. Let me explain. Just before we left I got a hint of what was happening down there when my buddy Bill, who lives on the coast and with whom I frequently correspond, wrote as to how he and others were still ticked over the local Tourist Development Council paying…
All of us across East Alabama agree that our first responders deserve our unwavering support and gratitude. These folks—our firefighters, law enforcement officers, paramedics, and emergency coordinators—are the first people we call in an emergency. Many are volunteers and almost all are on the front lines when disaster strikes. Given the sacrifices they make, these…
The Roanoke Utilities Board, in a three-hour meeting last week, discussed major needs of the water, sewer and gas lines and approved replacing cast iron lines beginning with Pate Street. This five-year plan will look at updating some of the water system. The hydraulic problems around Pate, Pool Street and Louina Road result from pressure…