Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Billy M. Bell, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Washington Mutual Bank, FA, on the 20th day of May 2002, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama,…
RANDOLPH COUNTY LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the debt secured by that certain mortgage executed by John T. Van Antwerp and Patsy J. Van Antwerp, Mortgagor(s) to Small Town Bank, Mortgagee, on January 25, 2002, said mortgage being recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Lee Wortham, 82, of Wedowee, will be Friday, July 21, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Iduma Congregational Methodist Church with the Rev. Tim Craft and the Rev. Eugene Robinson officiating. Mr. Wortham will lie in state one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in Valley Grove Church Cemetery.…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Ronald Holmes and wife, Teresa Holmes, to CitiFinancial Corporation, LLC, on the 24th day of July, 2003, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Book 448, Page 487; the…
(ASHLAND) Services for Dofford P. Butler, 75, of Ashland will be Friday, July 21, 2006, at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Home Chapel in Ashland. Burial will follow in Cedarwood Cemetery in Roanoke. Mr. Butler died Tuesday, July 18, at Clay County Hospital. He was a native of Cleburne County, but had lived in Clay…
RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF TERRELL M. ROBINSON, JR., DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Terrell M. Robinson, Jr., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 14th day of July , 2006, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
(ROANOKE) Services for Louise Kirby Cofield, 82, of Roanoke will be Thursday, July 20, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with Bro. Billy Prince Jr. officiating. Burial will follow at Taylor’s Crossroads Church of Christ Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Mrs.…
He only came to town about twice a year. He’d buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line. Everybody knew that he made moonshine. “Copperhead Road” Steve Earle BACON LEVEL – Randolph County Sheriff’s Office investigators were looking into what was reported to be a suspicious fire in the Bacon Level community on…
Roanoke City Schools is receiving $40,216 from the $11 million available for school construction needs and repairs announced by Gov. Bob Riley last week. A release from the governor’s office says the 76 school systems that participated in “pool bond” issues between 1999 and 2006 for capital improvements are receiving a portion of the interest…
WADLEY – With temperatures reaching upwards of 100 degrees this week at the 32nd annual Southeastern Baseball Camp, one would be somewhat surprised to know that there was Frost on the field for the entirety of the camp. No, not the cold stuff. The coach. With a name that has him destined for a Wendy’s…
The percentage of Randolph County’s registered voters who actually vote is often higher than the percentage for the state as a whole. That is something of which we can be proud since we have so many registered voters. According to Tina Wysner of the Randolph County Board of Registrars, there are 15,047 registered voters in…
As expected, the percentage of registered voters going to the polls on Tuesday was down substantially from last month. There was much less on the ballots from which to choose this time since yesterday’s vote was about runoffs to select Republican and Democratic nominees for this fall’s general election. Democrats On the Democratic ballot, there…
Give a boy a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a boy to fish and he’ll never stop pestering you to take him again. Ancient proverb Modern revision Looking back over the past year, I did a lot of stuff and had a lot of fun. But right up at the…
MONTGOMERY — There is more to the sudden departure of Roy Johnson as chancellor of the two-year college system in Alabama than meets the eye. A lot more. As they are wont to say on television, “stay tuned.” As for Johnson, shed no tears for him. He will remain on the payroll for eight months…
Roanoke’s Industrial Park is getting two new occupants, and the mayor said he is going to Montgomery Thursday to obtain help to ready the park for its newest occupants. It was announced in May that a manufacturing plant was coming, but at that time it was not named. Mayor Spec Bonner said he now feels…
A Bacon Level man has been arrested twice this week, both times charged with DUI in Roanoke. According to Roanoke Police Department investigator Billy Lane, Jonathan Curtis Wilson, 24, of 2409 County Road 75 was arrested on Friday night and early Tuesday morning and charged both times with DUI. During the most recent arrest, Wilson…
Woodland cheerleading The Woodland cheerleading signup for first through sixth grades will be Saturday, July 29 from 9 a.m. to noon. Prices for registration are $35 for one child, $60 for two children, and $70 for three. This will be the only signup date. For more information please call Debra Bowen at 449-2618, Lisa Gay…
WEDOWEE – Because of a technicality in the law of how 911 fees are determined, the Randolph County E-911 Board voted again to increase its monthly charge to telephone customers. At the June meeting, the board voted to change the monthly rate from $2 to $3.80. This was based on 5 percent of the tariff…
Arrests John Horace Denton, 47, of 247 Sunset Dr., Wedowee, was arrested on July 14 on Heard Street in Wedowee and charged with DUI, having no driver’s license and driving on the wrong side of the road. Weston Whaley Jones, 18, of 1302 Brookside Drive, Roanoke, was arrested Friday at the Randolph County jail and…
Why? The question hung there as I stood in dumbfounded silence thinking of many, many answers. The first answer is tomatoes. This is the time of year when you get real, juicy, tasty tomatoes fit for a king, not those plastic, tasteless substitutes sold in stores. If you have never had it you don’t know…