(VALLEY) Louise Gray Smith, 93, of Valley died Sunday, May 20, 2007, at George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley.Graveside services will be Tuesday, May 22, at 2:30 p.m. at Fairfax Cemetery with the Rev. Steve York officiating.Mrs. Smith is survived by her nieces, Delores Benefield Pitts, Cindy B. McGinty, Marion Bradfield and Faye Fuller;…
Effective at 9:00 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…
(LAFAYETTE) Services for G. David Nix, 54, of LaFayette will be Sunday, May 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. at LaFayette Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Paul Howard officiating. Burial will follow at LaFayette City Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Mr. Nix died Thursday, May…
(ANNISTON) Services for Jean Duffie Moon, 76, of Anniston will be Saturday, May 19, 2007, at 11 a.m. with the Revs. Lewis P. Bowen, David Vinson and Stanley Owen officiating at Chapel Hill Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be at Forestlawn Gardens. Visitation will be Friday, May 18, at the funeral home. Mrs. Moon died…
(ROANOKE) Services for Etha Mae “Mama Red” Bowen, 87, of Roanoke will be Friday, May 18, 2007, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Ed Grooms and Rev. Jimmy Dale Abrams officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday,…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Betty Owens Higgins, 54, of Wedowee, will be Friday, May 18, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Rock Springs Christian Church with the Rev. Ricky Emory and the Rev. Roger Florence officiating. Mrs. Higgins will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in the adjoining church…
A Roanoke couple was arrested on Monday afternoon following the discovery of two crank labs they were alleged to be operating. According to Roanoke Police Chief Adam Melton, Milam Willis Adamson, 53, and his wife, Dana Lee Adamson, 35, of 64380 Hwy. 22, Roanoke, are each charged with trafficking, manufacture of a controlled substance, possession…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Lorenza “John” Bowen, 76, of Roanoke will be Thursday, May 17, 2007, at 11 a.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens with the Rev. Rob Steinbrook and Rev. Kenneth Bowen officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16. Mr. Bowen died Tuesday,…
NEW HOPE – A fire on Saturday evening in the New Hope community destroyed the home of Jim Wright and his mother, Mary Alice Hoke. Wright said the fire began when his mother was painting in the kitchen and the fumes ignited the pilot light to the gas stove. Everything inside the house was destroyed.…
MONTGOMERY — There is simply no way to overstate the significance of the decision of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp to locate its $3-billion plant in Mobile County. They announced their decision in the pre-dawn hours Friday, and you could almost hear the corks of champagne bottles popping all over southwest Alabama. The numbers are simply overwhelming:…
(WEDOWEE) Betty Jean Molden Lancaster, 63, of 308 Main Street, Wedowee, died Sunday, May 13, 2007 at Gadsden Regional Medical Center. Services will be Saturday, May 19, at 1 p.m. at Canaan “Shining Light” Baptist Church, Wedowee, with the Revs. A.J. Sims, R.L. Heflin and William Phillips officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has approved a grant of $3.3 million and a loan of $6 million to extend Randolph County water lines. “Randolph County is in an ideal geographical position to…
Clearly, a new jail is needed but what about the loss of education funds to Roanoke City Schools and Randolph County Schools? Balancing seriously crowded jail cells with inmates sleeping on the floor versus a good education for children in Randolph County is a decision worthy of Solomon. However, this is a decision Randolph County…
The 2007 Bike Hike raised $70,011 to benefit Randolph County Learning Center. On Bike Hike Day, 122 bikers and walkers brought in $12,826. As the youngest participant, Koreen Henry received a $50 savings bond from Small Town Bank. The oldest participant, Mattie Mae Overton, 82, received a $25 Wal-Mart gift card. Raising the most money…
(ROANOKE) Services for Etha Mae ‘Mama Red’ Bowen, 87, of Roanoke will be Friday, May 18, 2007, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Ed Grooms and Rev. Jimmy Dale Abrams officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday,…
Local American Legion Post 53 will sponsor an “Echo Taps Around the World” event at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 19, at Roanoke Memory Gardens Cemetery. This will be a recap of the 2005 event when two towns did this and it took three and a half hours from the beginning of the first note and…
Lineville Police assisted the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office by nabbing a shotgun-carrying motorcyclist after he allegedly had used it to shoot a Roanoke man Friday evening. According to RCSO Investigator Jimmy Holmes, the incident began when Benjamin Shane Foster, 29, of County Road 4807, Lineville, pulled up near a residence in the Rock Mills community,…
The second in a series of stories about the Randolph County Jail appears in this week’s paper. The first attempted to convey a feel for the abysmal condition of the current jail, although anything short of a first-hand tour is inadequate to explain it. The second story considers the consequences of the commission’s proposed solution…
In a called Thursday meeting the Roanoke City Council passed a resolution to further the planned SteelFab expansion project. While the acreage is not listed in the document, it is 41 acres that includes a troublesome area with a spring underneath where a detention pond will be created. While supporting the project, Councilmen Walter Sudduth…
Arrests Leslie Ann Smith, 35, of Lanett was arrested on May 11 and charged with writing a bad check. Incidents Several residents of County Road 4807 in the Ofelia community reported thefts of property over the Mother’s Day weekend. Stephen W. Johnson reported the theft of three boat gas tanks, 6 gallons of gas and…