(ROANOKE) Services for Eris Poore Cottle, 85, of Roanoke will be Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Doug Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18.Mrs. Cottle died Tuesday,…

Arrests July 16 – Gerald Wayne Thomas, 54, (no address given) – failure to appear in court (child support). July 11 – Antwoan Troy Knight, 27, of 148 County Rd. 905, Wedowee – reckless endangerment. July 9 – Jerry Nelson (no birthdate or address given) – failure to appear in court. Thefts Michael Baker of…

(ROANOKE) Services for Mildred Cummings Pike, 74, of Roanoke will be Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Forest Home Congregational Christian Church, with the Rev. Bill Calhoun and the Rev. Stoney Halsey officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends at Quattlebaum Funeral Home from 5:30 to 8;30…

A woman was injured in a two-vehicle accident Thursday at 4:15 p.m. on County Road 82. Helen Hammond, 20, of Woodland was driving a 2002 Pontiac. The other driver, Ray Hurst of Lineville, driving a 1980 Crane, was not injured, according to the Jacksonville State Trooper Post spokeswoman. Bethel East Volunteer Fire Department, the Randolph…

Roanoke’s July 23 council meeting will apparently be a busy one, with several items to be considered at that meeting including amendment of the zoning ordinance. The council failed to pass this on unanimous consent so it will be introduced and considered at the next meeting, as will an ordinance dealing with wrecker service rotation.…

Recently residents around Lincoln, Alabama got a nasty shock. They discovered that they were at risk because of hazardous debris (lead, among other contaminants) had been discovered at a defunct brass foundry in their community. And worse, they found out that the Alabama Department of Environmental Manage-ment (ADEM) knew about it for the past three…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA GAIL HIGGINS and ZACK HIGGINS PLAINTIFF CASE NO. CV 03-02 VS. CEBORN SPRAYBERRY DEFENDANT NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Pursuant to a Writ of Execution previously issued in connection with the above case, the undersigned Jeff Fuller will offer for sale to the highest bidder at public auction on the steps of the…

The Roanoke Board of Education voted to purchase a new telephone system for Knight-Enloe Elementary School and technology for Handley Middle and High schools, including laptop computers, rolling carts where the laptops can be secured and wireless projectors. At the July 10 called meeting, Superintendent Chuck Marcum recommended purchasing the new digital telephone system from…

Birmingham attorney Lenora Pate has a resume that would wow just about anybody. Besides being a top-rated lawyer in the areas of health and physician-oriented law, business law, governmental/public policy areas, and real estate/health care development, she served in Gov. Jim Folsom Jr.’s cabinet as the first female director of the Alabama Department of Industrial…

(ROANOKE) Services for Eris Poore Cottle, 85, of Roanoke will be Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Doug Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18. Mrs. Cottle…

The Randolph County Solid Waste Authority will accept competitive bids to construct a concrete slab at the Transfer Station located at 1938 County Road 811, Wedowee, AL 36278. The Plans and Proposals can be obtained at the Randolph County Commission Office, 12 Broad Street East, Wedowee, AL 36278. Bids will be opened on Monday, August…

Arrests July 16 – Alan Truman Higgins Jr., 26, of Sebastian, Fla. – bad check and failure to appear in court (bad check). July 16 – Adam Scott Green, 19, of 50383 Hwy. 22, Roanoke – three counts of writing bad checks. July 13 – Rochelle Calloway, 31, of 124 Dallas Circle, Roanoke – DUI…

IN RE: FLORA HOWLE, DECEASED ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the estate of Flora Howle, deceased, having been granted to Barry Howle and Mary Davis on the 3rd day of July, 2007, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having…

Saturday as workers were dismantling a small appendage to the old bus station/NAPA building between Main and Louina streets the wall fell in, knocking a worker on a ladder backwards into Louina Street, according to Fire Chief Bill Ford. Ford was working on reports, heard the call and rushed to the scene thinking it was…

A Roanoke man who died on July 8 in Manchester, Ga., apparently was struck by a train as he was trying to climb aboard a freight train leaving the switching station there. According to Major Bobby Rogers of the Manchester Police Department, the body of Curtis Wayne Owens, 38, was discovered at 10:30 a.m. by…

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, July 19 8:30 a.m. Randolph County Commission will have an agenda workshop meeting at Randolph County Courthouse Annex. noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at The Galley…

If you turn the clock back 15 years you will hear one big complaint about the Southeastern Conference going to a 12-team league, dividing into two divisions and finishing the regular season with a championship game. The conference will never win another national championship. At least that’s what SEC fans were lamenting. It is just…

An email received yesterday from the governor’s office told of an announcement that Gov. Bob Riley is making today in Florence about an economic “mega project.” The new project (no details were given in advance) for the Shoals area will create more than 1,000 new jobs. Announcements like this are wonderful when they happen, although…

Hurricane season began June 1. And everybody says it’s gonna be bad. The Tropical Meteorology Research Project at Colorado State University is out with its prediction. As they see it, which is from Colorado, the 2007 season will be “very active.” Not exactly what folks down in the tropics want to hear, even if it…