(NEWELL) Services for Ocie Carter Cofield, 81, of Newell will be Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel, with the Revs. Julian Murphy, Lewis Cushing and Mike Drummond officiating. Burial will follow in Union Baptist Church Cemetery.Mr. Cofield died Sunday, Oct. 1, at his home.The family will receive friends on Monday…
(ROANOKE) Services for Laura Bell Wright, 76, of Roanoke were Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Gerald Sheppard officiating. Burial followed at Fellowship Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Wright died Wednesday, Sept. 27, at her home. Survivors include two daughters, Linda Ann Wright of Roanoke and Rebecca Jean…
(EPHESUS, Ga.) Grace Brazil, 85, of Ephesus, Ga., died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006. She was born in Randolph County, Ala., July 5, 1921, daughter of the late Franklin and Nannie Lee Carson Mitchell. She was a member of Victory Road Baptist Church and was a retired employee of LaMar Manufacturing Co. In addition to her…
WEDOWEE – It was a tale of two halves Friday night in Wedowee. The Tigers were outscored 14-0 in the first half, but came back to put up 25 unanswered points in the second half to defeat the Ranburne Bulldogs 25-14 in a crucial region game. Ranburne opened the game with a 13-play drive that…
Now this is the way it should be. Four county teams. Two games. One historic night of football. It’s Handley vs. RCHS and Wadley vs. Woodland. Each year week five of the high school football season brings a hiatus from the region schedule and allows each team to play anyone that will agree to a…
WINTERBORO – Woodland scored four touchdowns in a span of seven minutes in the second quarter and cruised to their fourth straight win with a 41-8 triumph over Winterboro Friday night. The Bobcats held a modest 13-0 lead with just under ten minutes to play in the first half. But that’s when the floodgates opened…
(ROANOKE) Services for Mrs. Willie Stillwell, 95, of Roanoke will be Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Henry Sheppard officiating. Burial will follow at Welcome Home Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Quattlebaum Funeral Home from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Mrs. Stillwell…
Arrests continue of those indicted by the fall Randolph County Grand Jury. They include three indictments on rape charges. Grand jurors indicted James Gordon Waters, 41, of 460 Pine Valley Drive, Lot 19, Roanoke on a rape first-degree charge. Jurors returned a second-degree rape indictment of Travis “Andy” Bourgeois, 23, of Lane’s Chapel Road, Roanoke.…
ROANOKE – There may be a pattern developing here. For the fourth straight game this season Handley managed to score just one touchdown when they squared off with region foe Central, Coosa Friday night. This time it was enough to give them their first halftime lead of the season, but it still wasn’t enough to…
ALABAMA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Default having been made in the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Leslie Steeley and Sandra Steeley, husband and wife. to H & R Block Mortgage Corp, dated October 28, 2005, said mortgage being recorded in Book 488, Page 620, in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph…
WEDOWEE – Following a crowded and sometimes chaotic public hearing, Randolph County Commission voted to close the end of County Road 90, which dead ends into Lake Wedowee. Among the most vocal opponents to closing the road were Sam and Naomi Wreyford, who operate D&S Marine on Highway 48 West and who also reside on…
MONTGOMERY — You have to be an AARP card-carrying member to remember it, but there was a popular song of decades ago which opened with the words: “It seems to me I’ve heard that song before…” Those lyrics came to mind when Jim Folsom Jr. launched his TV campaign last week. Folsom, the Democratic nominee…
Randolph County High School will sponsor a varsity and junior high cheer competition on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 10 a.m. in the new RCHS gym. Entry fee is $75 per squad, and entry deadline is Oct. 25. First through third-place trophies will be awarded for a five-minute routine. Squads may incorporate dance, cheers, chants, stunts…
Notice is hereby given that Tank Pro Inc., 5500 Watermelon Road, Northport, AL 35473, has completed all work on 324,000 Gallon Standpipe Water Tank at Roanoke, Alabama. All persons having any claim for labor, materials, or otherwise in connection with this project should immediately notify the above named Contractor, the Utilities Board of the City…
According to Wedowee Mayor Tim Coe, the State Department of Transportation has decided not to replace the traffic lights downtown. The DOT will instead erect more permanent stop signs on U.S. 431 (Main Street), Highway 48 (Broad Street) and the street between Randolph County Courthouse and Perryland Foods. The control box to the lights went…
There has been a interesting development in the Southeastern Conference in regard to quarterbacks. This was the season that saw three of the hottest freshman quarterback recruits land in the conference with the promise of great things to come. Mitch Mustain at Arkansas, Matthew Stafford at Georgia and Tim Tebow of Florida were the instant…
Roanoke City Council received its first complaint about the nuisance ordinance at Monday night’s meeting when Shelia Vowell spoke to the council. She felt she had not been treated right when she received a call that the police were on her property towing a vehicle on Williams Street in the Mill Village. The truck was…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Billy M. Bell, an unmarried man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Ameritrust Mortgage Company, on the 16th day of October 2003, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph…
NOTICE OF COMPLETION In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended, notice is hereby given that Giddens Inc., Contractor, has completed the contract (Highway 431 South Sewer Extension, for the City of Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama) CDBG Project No. #0400-19. Owners have made request for final settlement of said contract.…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: MILDRED F. COGGINS, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MILDRED F. COGGINS, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Mildred F. Coggins, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 19th day of Sept., 2006, by the Judge of Probate of said County,…