(WADLEY) Services for William Eldridge Willoughby, 82, of Wadley will be Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Zion Hill Baptist Church. The Rev. Jeff Freeman will officiate. Burial will follow in the Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.Mr. Willoughby died Tuesday, Aug. 8, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika.He was born in Daviston on…
(LINEVILLE) Services for Ethleen Maddox Sheppard, 81, of Lineville will be Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, at 11 a.m. at Zion Church of God with the Revs. Billy Saxon, Claude Bennett and Rob Turley officiating. Burial will follow in Valley Grove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Randolph County. Mrs. Sheppard died Thursday, Aug. 10, at Lineville…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Mrs. Willie Mae Hall, 84, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006, at Hospice LaGrange. Mrs. Hall was born April 8, 1922, in Randolph County, Ala., daughter of the late Rev. Ed and Mary Hester. She was a member of Southwest LaGrange Baptist Church and had worked at the Calumet Mill. She…
Season tickets for the upcoming Woodland varsity football season are now available to past season ticket holders for $50. The tickets will be available strictly to past season ticket holders until Friday, August 18 when the remainder will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. Roanoke youth football The Roanoke recreation department will…
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF BILLY LAMAR TOMBLIN Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to Evelyn Graham Tomblin on the 1st day of Aug. of 2006, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required…
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES H. KNIGHT SR., DECEASED NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT TO: ALL HEIRS OF JAMES H. KNIGHT SR., DECEASED You are hereby notified that on the 1st day of August, 2006, came James H. Knight, Jr., Executor/Personal Representative of the James H. Knight Sr. Estate, and filed in this Court…
Two young men were injured in a two-vehicle accident on Tuesday morning at 7:48 a.m. east of Huey’s Grocery on Highway 48 at New Hope. Drivers Cory McNeil and Jonathan Mitchell, both age 20, were injured. On Monday at 11:15 a.m., a two-vehicle accident occurred at the intersection of U.S. 431 and County Road 82…
Roanoke Board of Education members, in a called meeting Friday, approved some last-minute hires and transfers to complete the staff for the school year. They approved Superintendent Chuck Marcum’s recommendations and hired Michelle Lewis as science teacher at Handley High School; Inez Mitchell as sixth-grade teacher at Handley Middle School and Jessica Veal as kindergarten…
Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has added more charges to those faced by James Ronald “Ronnie” Whaley and Holly Easterwood. The Roanoke couple was awakened on July 31 as officers from RCSO, Roanoke Police Department and Wedowee Police Department arrived at their mobile home on Bell Lake in Roanoke to execute a search warrant. The search…
Proceeds from an auction on Aug. 26 will benefit Randolph County Animal Shelter. Grandview Antiques & Auction of Roanoke will hold its monthly antiques auction that Saturday. The company will give Randolph County Animal Shelter a 30-minute window from 10 to 10:30 a.m. during which the auction company will waive its fees. Now the shelter…
Alabama Bridge Builders Inc. hereby gives notice of completion of contract with the State of Alabama for construction of Project No. ACGBBRZ-BRZ-5600(205) in Randolph County. This notice will appear for four consecutive weeks beginning on Aug. 9, 2006 and ending on Aug. 30, 2006. All claims should be filed at P.O. Box 189, Pelham, Alabama…
The official AHSAA schedule says that fall practice started for high school football teams on Monday, August 7. But the date and the temperatures outside say that fall is a long way off. With temperatures routinely in the upper 90’s and heat indexes in the 100’s nearly every afternoon, football practices have become an exercise…
7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, August 10 noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at The Galley Restaurant. 2 p.m. Sheri Rollins, field representative with Congressman Mike Rogers’ office, will be at Wedowee Town Hall until 4 p.m. to meet with constituents. Citizens may make an appointment by calling (256) 236-5655.…
Three people, including a baby, were injured in a two-vehicle accident on Friday afternoon of last week in Roanoke. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, a 2002 Ford Explorer driven by Edna Kent Hester, 51, of 1181 LaFayette Hwy., Roanoke, was pulling out of Stewart Street while a 1997 Ford F150 truck driven…
MONTGOMERY — There is something eyebrow-raising about the controversy over naming Gov. Bob Riley as the special master (overseer) of an effort to develop a statewide computerized voter registration database. The responsibility for establishing the voter database was initially given to Secretary of State Nancy Worley, but for whatever reason she missed the deadline. The…
Randolph Medical Center recently purchased Southern Family Health Care, an independent rural health clinic, from owner Charlotte Bishop. “I am really excited about this merger and feel like it will be beneficial to the hospital as well as the community,” said Bishop, a well-known nurse practitioner in the Randolph County area for the past 12…
bateau (noun) a small passenger boat with sharply pointed bow and stern [Dictionary of American Regional English] The humble bateau was once a common sight along our Tallapoosa River. Quaint, quiet and nondescript with its rapidly disappearing coat of paint, it was often spotted bobbing in the current while tied off to an ancient, weathered…
“When the walls come tumblin’ down When the walls come crumblin’ crumblin’ When the walls come tumblin’ tumblin’ down…John Cougar Mellencamp” Barry Harlin backed up the excavator, then moved forward as inexorably as Jaws. The heat beat down for the last time on the T.L. Belcher and Coca Cola signs on the back of the…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by Nicholas Ryan Kimbrell, and wife Pamela Jan Kimbrell, to Colonial Bank on October 4, 2001, said Mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama, in Book 419 at Page 584, and Colonial…
Some 150 people gathered at SIFAT (Servants in Faith and Technology) Friday, Aug. 4, to celebrate the graduation of 20 community leaders from a 10-week intensive practicum in appropriate technologies for meeting basic human needs globally in a context of Christian community development. They came from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the…