(ROANOKE) Services for Clarence Harold Hall, 73, of Roanoke will be Monday, May 28, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Rock Mills Methodist Church with the Revs. Frank Foster, Paul Messer and Andrew Dressler officiating. Mr. Hall will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens.Mr.…

(SAGINAW, Mich.) Services for Walter R. Garrett Jr., 59, of Saginaw, Mich., will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at St. Paul Baptist Church, 120 North 15th Street, Saginaw. St. Paul Pastor Vincent D. McMillon and Pastor Jacob Gaines of New Missionary Baptist Church will officiate, with interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.…

(WADLEY) Graveside services for Bobby Gene “Bob” Bennett, 69, of Wadley will be Monday, May 28, 2007, at 3 p.m. from the Concord Church Cemetery with the Rev. Gordon Taylor officiating. Mr. Bennett died May 26, at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. Survivors include his wife, Myra Railey Bennett of Roanoke; three daughters, Debbie Polston…

Randall Keith Mitchell died on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. He was 24 years of age. Randall was a graduate of Gardendale High School, where he lettered in football and baseball for four years and basketball for three years. He also attended Southern Union State Community College in Wadley on a baseball scholarship. He was engaged…

(ROANOKE) Services for Jones Corlett “Jay” Norton, 88, of Roanoke will be Saturday, May 26, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Roanoke First United Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Mann and the Rev. Paul Messer officiating. Mr. Norton will lie in state from 12:30 until 2 p.m. at the church. Burial will follow at Cedarwood…

(VALLEY) Jerry Hill, 65, of Valley died Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at his residence. Services are planned for Saturday, May 26, at 2 p.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Frank Rittenberry officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery. Mr. Hill is survived by his wife, Wanda D. Harris…

(CRAGFORD) Alice Anita Kunickis, 82, of Cragford died Saturday, May 19, 2007 of natural causes at the home of her son, Bob Kunickis, in Ashland. Mrs. Kunickis was born May 20, 1924, in Roanoke. Survivors include her children, Lavona Casson of Louisville, Ky., Ken Kunickis of Laurens,Iowa, and Bob Kunickis of Ashland; a sister, Mary…

(ROANOKE) Services for Helen Cauline Moree moon, 75, of Roanoke will be Saturday, May 26, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Antioch Christian Church, with the Rev. Anthony Herren officiating. Mrs. Moon will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends…

(SHARPSBURG, Ga.) Rebecca Smith Taylor, 56, of Sharpsburg, Ga., died Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at Atlanta Medical Center. She was born Aug. 25, 1950 in Roanoke. She was a longtime waitress at Waffle House and most recently worked in the Peachtree City location. The funeral will be Saturday, May 26, at 11 in the chapel…

(WEDOWEE) Services for Sue P. Benefield, 75, of Wedowee, will be Friday, May 25, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Cavers Grove Congregational Christian Church, with the Rev. George Smitherman and Bro. Ricky Daniel officiating. Mrs. Benefield will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery.…

Roanoke City Council dealt with number of issues at Monday night’s meeting, including declaring as surplus property the rest of the 32 acres SteelFab will be using in its expansion. Council members also agreed to cut three access roads into Roanoke Industrial Park from Johnson Street and paving a road into Springhill Subdivision. Mayor Pro-Tem…

RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT IN RE: ESTATE OF HERSCHEL A. LYLE, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters Testamentary on the estate of Herschel A. Lyle, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 18th day of May, 2007, by the Hon. George Diamond, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that…

I got a laugh out of an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about Grady Health System in Atlanta. To cut costs the hospital offered early retirement to nurses, other primary caregivers and people who deal directly with the public. Nurses are in high demand and will be in even higher demand in the future. Partly due to…

WEDOWEE – Circuit Judge Ray Martin sentenced Cecil Gunn to 23 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last week to the April 2006 murder of Tammy Sue Smith, 35. Defense Attorney Oliver Kitchens said his client was deeply remorseful for the shooting death. Gunn, 49, of 485 Lucky St., Roanoke, told the judge they…

Perhaps the greatest thing about being an American is that we enjoy freedoms that are unparalleled by any other nation in the world. Yet, far too often we take our freedoms for granted. As Memorial Day approaches, it offers us the opportunity to reflect on the fact that our freedoms are not free. Memorial Day…

NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS FRENCH ADCOCK GILES Letters of Testamentary on the estate of Doris French Adcock Giles, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, on the 15th day of May, 2007, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons…

As you all have probably gathered, football is my thing. So you also probably gathered that I was looking forward to the slate of spring football games last week. Well let me tell you about my first taste of football in Randolph County. Last week was very long for me. I knew that Thursday I…

Seems like everybody these days is jumping on the biofuel bandwagon. I haven’t seen this much excitement since they told us that if we plant kudzu our land wouldn’t wash away. We did and it didn’t. See. So when Professor David Bransby, from down at Auburn, tells us that we have all it takes to…

Effective at 9 a.m. Friday, May 18, all 67 counties in the Alabama were placed under a fire alert. The order was signed by State Forester Linda S. Casey. The alert was issued because of drought conditions across the state and the extremely high potential for devastating wildfire. Rain received the past few days was…