Roanoke City Council hammered out a new budget Monday night that it will have to pass in next Monday’s regular session, a week after the beginning of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1. They went over the budgets for the different departments in detail and made enough cuts to meet the $5.8 million proposed…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Steve Daniel, an unmarried man, to Option One Mortgage Corporation on January 10, 2005, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Book 476, Page 139, and subsequently transferred…
More than 200 inmates have been cleared of the crime with which they were charged due to DNA testing pushed by the Innocence Project. Fifteen of those were on death row, some within weeks of their execution when they were cleared. There is no doubt but what innocent defendants have been put to death by…
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is courting Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright, hoping he will enter the Democratic Primary for the seat of retiring Second District Congressman Terry Everett, R-Rehobeth. Bright, just elected to his third term as mayor with 58 percent of the vote, has also been urged by some Republicans to enter the…
RCP 56-220-07 The Randolph County Commission is studying the feasibility of improvements to the County Road System as follows: Installing guardrail with end anchors at Cornhouse Creek Bridge on County Road 15, Little Tallapoosa on County Road 51 and at a Tributary to Bear Creek 3/4 mile south of Woodland on County Road 59. It…
Randolph-Roanoke Career Technology Center had its annual career day on Thursday of last week. Exhibitors came from the following colleges and universities to talk with students and provide them with information: Jacksonville State University, Auburn University, University of Alabama, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Alabama-Huntsville, Southern Union State Community College/Technical Division, Talladega College, Huntingdon College,…
Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has made a few recoveries of stolen vehicles (or parts of them) recently. A 1985 Toyota 4-Runner belonging to Gerald O. Broach was discovered abandoned and missing its motor and transmission on property off Highway 22 in Rock Mills. No arrests have been made yet. Brenton Morrison, 18, of Woodland is…
Inexperience, size and roster numbers can make a big difference in a football game. Handley’s 55-7 win over Randolph County in Roanoke Friday night proved that. The Handley Tigers, now 4-1 on the season, outmanned, outgunned and outplayed a youthful Randolph County team in a county rivalry game with only bragging rights on the line.…
For a while now I have been studying ways the northern rim of the Gulf of Mexico – the fabled Redneck Riviera – has evolved since World War II. I have examined how a string of “little fishing villages that reminded the visitor of the southern coast of France” became a playground for middle class…
It’s never a dull event when the Wadley Bulldogs and the Woodland Bobcats take the field to do battle and Friday night was no exception, with Wadley topping Woodland 28-13. “I thought it was just an intense game between two good football teams,” Wadley head coach Randy Sparks said. The Bulldogs jumped out to a…
If I had any doubt in my mind about the intensity of rivalries in this county before last Friday night, they were erased. Notice I said “if.” Back in the spring, I went to the Wadley-Woodland jamboree game and was shocked to see how many people turned out for a spring game. That kind of…
A string of bank robberies that began three years ago this month has landed Gregory Alan Nichols, 45, in federal prison for 110 months, or 9 years and two months. Three of the banks he allegedly hit during the spree were Roanoke banks, and he pleaded guilty to bank robbery in two of those: First…
Around 10:30 this past Saturday night, the date October 20 suddenly became the most important date on the SEC football calendar for the rest of the season. That’s the date the Auburn Tigers travel to Baton Rouge to take on the LSU Tigers, which could possibly set up a return match for Florida against Auburn…
(WADLEY) Hazel Lee Payton, 65, of Wadley died Monday, Oct. 1, 2007, at Randolph Medical Center, Roanoke. Mrs. Payton is survived by two sons, Mitchell Keith Scogin of Douglasville, Ga., and Harold E. Scottin Jr. of Washington; two brothers, Clyde Payton of Florida and James Payton of Birmingham; and three grandchildren. Mrs. Payton was born…
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(ROANOKE) Services for Rose Marie Hartzel, 63, of Roanoke will be Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007, at 10 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Bobby Burroughs officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 pm. on Wednesday. Mrs. Hartzel died Thursday,…
Wadley 28, Woodland 13; Handley 55, Randolph County 6 Wadley 28, Woodland 13 The Wadley Bulldogs showcased a variety of weapons on offense and defense to down in-county rivals, the Woodland Bobcats Friday night in Wadley. The Bulldogs struck first on a 33-yard touchdown run from running back Timothy Marable with 8:29 left to play…
(HELENA) Robert Lee Fausett, 90, of Helena, formerly of Birmingham, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Mr. Fausett was born in Carrollton, Ga., grew up in Roanoke, and graduated from Handley High School. He joined the U.S. Navy in 194 and served in Honolulu, Hawaii, for 3-1/2 years. He graduated from Howard College, now Samford University,…
Graveside services for Bobby Jean Thrift, 68, of Tallassee will be Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, at 2 p.m. in Garden Hills. Visitation will be Friday, Sept. 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home. The family will also receive friends at the Opelika Masonic Lodge following the graveside service. Mr. Thrift, who died…
(BOWDON, Ga.) Janice Nell White, 47, Bowdon, Ga., died Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, in Ragland. She was born in Carroll County Georgia, May 17, 1960, the daughter of the late Curtis Gerald and Bobbie Nell Kiker White. She was a member of Bethlehem Campground Methodist Church in Graham and was retired from Ball Corporation. Survivors…