WEDOWEE – Randolph County Commissioners stayed after their Monday morning meeting to work with a map and assign a garbage pick-up territory to R&W Waste.The commission received a map from R&W with its customers marked on it. They created a proposal and submitted it to their attorney, John Tinney.“There’s going to have to be a…

WADLEY – Wadley overcame a sluggish first half and pulled away from Pleasant Home for a 32-13 first-round playoff win Friday night. With the win the Bulldogs extended their streak of consecutive years with at least one playoff win to eight under coach Randy Sparks. The Bulldogs haven’t lost a first round game since a…

MONTGOMERY — Now that the dust is beginning to settle from one of the ugliest general election campaigns in history, an obvious question to ask is “Who won?” Predictably the chairs of both parties, Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh of the Republican Party and Joe Turnham of the Democratic Party, both claimed victory but the truth is…

Randolph County is on the move. Just look at the stories in this week’s paper. A front page story tells of grants being received by the city of Roanoke to prepare for a new industry that could employ as many as 250 local people. That same story also reports that an existing manufacturing business is…

WOODLAND – The Town of Woodland was recently notified that it will receive a grant for $37,500 from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs for a parking lot at the community center. The work will include walkways and a place for handicapped sports spectators to sit. Some of the funding will also be…

SECTION – A familiar source of frustration did in the Randolph County Tigers in the playoffs once again as they dropped a heart-breaking 7-6 loss to Section the first round of the Class 2A state playoffs on Friday. RCHS trailed 7-0 virtually the entire game until Quinton Prothro hooked up with Quincy Potter for an…

CASE NUMBER: JU-00-70.03 IN RE: IN THE MATTER OF COREY PARKS, DOB: 8-29-93, A MINOR CHILD TO: Christa Pritchett, the mother of Corey Parks, date of birth: August 29, 1993 Take notice that the Randolph County Department of Human Resources filed a petition in the Juvenile Court of Randolph County to terminate your parental rights…

Sometimes, as you get older, connections you did not know existed will appear, things will fall into place, and the truth will be revealed in ways never before imagined. This just happened to me. Let me explain. One day, back in the summer, I took a break from my Redneck Riviera research and tuned into…

This could be the craziest football season ever in the Southeastern Conference. How can LSU lose to Auburn, who lost to Georgia, who lost to Vanderbilt, who lost to Kentucky? How can Florida lose to Auburn, who lost to Georgia, who lost to Vanderbilt, who lost to Kentucky? How can Auburn, who beat LSU and…

Since influenza season will begin soon, the Randolph County Health Department will be administering flu and pneumonia vaccine in special clinics. Influenza is a potentially deadly lung disease and can be prevented by yearly vaccination. Pneumonia is a serious disease that causes much sickness and death. Pneumonia immunizations can be given at any time during…

ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SYNTHETIC MINOR OPERATING PERMIT AND REQUEST FOR COMMENTS RANDOLPH COUNTY Plantation Patterns has applied for a Synthetic Minor Operating Permit for the manufacturing and surface coating of metal furniture (Facility Number 308-0016) located at 134 Clay Street. Wadley, Alabama 36276. The applicant’s name Plantation Patterns is…

IN RE: GEORGE FRANK COLE, DECEASED ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of George Frank Cole, deceased, having been granted to Annette Elliott on the 8th day of Nov., 2006, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said…

WEDOWEE – A Randolph County Jail inmate hung himself in his cell on Wednesday afternoon of last week. According to Sheriff Jeff Fuller, the jailer had only recently made his rounds when he called for help around 3 p.m. Fuller explained that seven cells open into a dayroom. Two inmates had been in the dayroom…

This is a catch-up report on the happenings of Randolph County Animal Shelter in the last months. The final figure that we added to our bank account from the Sporting Clays shoot at Circle W was $8,767, making this the most successful fundraiser we have ever had, so you can count on this being the…

(FRANKLIN, Ga.) Services for Ida Mae Brightwell, 77, of Franklin, Ga., will be Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006, at 1 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with Rev. Mike Reeve officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2 to 7 p.m. on Monday. Mrs. Brightwell died…

(GRAHAM) Flora B. Howle, 81, of Graham died Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, Anniston. She was born in Carroll County, Ga., Oct. 24, 1925, the daughter of the late Sampson and Jewell Jones Bentley. She was employed by Bremen-Bowdon Investment Company for more than 40 years. In addition to her…

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. on September 24, 2004, by John H. Maffett, Jr., a single man, and recorded in Mortgage Book 471, Page 41; said mortgage was transferred and assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as…

WOODLAND – Woodland won their first-round playoff game for the third consecutive season and in so doing made a strong statement to the rest of the state with a 39-15 win over Piedmont on Friday. The Bobcats put together one of their best performances of the season, compiling 428 yards of total offense while limiting…

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES VINSON, DECEASED Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 9th day of Nov., 2006, by the Hon. George Diamond, Judge of the Probate Court of Randolph County, notice is hereby given that…

The Wadley Bulldogs and the Woodland Bobcats both defeated their first-round opponents and after this week should still be in the state title hunt. by Tim Altork Wadley (9-2) at Sunshine (7-3) The Wadley Bulldogs have now won a playoff game in eight straight seasons under head coach Randy Sparks. But here’s an interesting note…