RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMAIN RE: ESTATE OF DONALD C. BAILEY, DEC.NOTICE OF APPOINTMENTLetters of Administration of said deceased have been granted to Stacy Pike, Administratrix, on the 9th day of June, 2006, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate Court of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said…
The Randolph County Commission will accept competitive bids on replacing the roof on the Randolph County Shop Facility located at 817 Woodland Avenue West in Wedowee, Alabama. Bids will be accepted until 9:00 a.m. CDT on July 10, 2006. Interested parties should contact Burrel Jones the County Engineer, at P.O. Box 286, Wedowee, AL 36278,…
RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM HOYT VINSON, DECEASED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION TO PROBATE WILL TO: ALL HEIRS OF WILLIAM HOYT VINSON, DECEASED You will hereby take notice, that on this day came Barbara V. Robinson and produced to the Court a paper writing, purporting to be the Last Will…
(WEDOWEE) Denvil Charles Berry, 52, of Wedowee died Sunday, June 18, 2006, at Bethany House, Auburn. Services will be Thursday, June 22, at 11 a.m. at Weathers Heights Church of Christ, Wedowee, with Brother Henry Nelson officiating. Survivors include his wife, Bobbie Jean Williams-Berry of Wedowee; his mother, Fannie Maude Berry-Thomas of Wedowee; two sons,…
(NEWELL) Services for Ray Garrison Sudduth Sr., 70, of Newell will be Thursday, June 22, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home, with the Rev. Dale Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Sudduth died Sunday, June 18, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. The family will receive friends…
WEDOWEE – Facing a budget crunch, the Randolph County 911 Board of Directors unanimously voted on Tuesday, June 13, to increase the monthly emergency telephone service charge from $2 to $3.80. The increase is expected to raise approximately $18,000 more per month for the 911 system than it was previously making. The cost was arrived…
WEDOWEE – Randolph County jurors returned with a verdict of guilty last Wednesday, convicting Tommy Alan Cook, 27, of capital murder and arson in the shooting deaths of three people in the Bethel community Feb. 10, 2003. When volunteer fire departments were extinguishing the fire at the residence of Donnie Henderson, firefighters discovered the badly…
It’s gone. Roanoke’s almost 100-year-old railroad depot burned Saturday morning. The highly unusual architecture could still be discerned in the smoking ruins of the lovely old building. The ruins nestled next to the railroad track at what was once called Antigo Place were still smoking Monday as Fire Chief Bill Ford, Assistant Chief Ron Cameron…
WADLEY – The Randolph County Emergency Management Agency held a flood safety seminar for the town of Wadley at Southern Union State Community College on Friday, June 9. Representatives from the United States Geological Survey, Alabama Power Company, National Weather Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Southeast River Forecaster Center addressed the audience about…
ROANOKE – The Roanoke Housing Authority was awarded $74,407 in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) but according to the housing authority director, the funding is a significant cut from previous years. Housing Director Thelma N. Sledge said, “Budget cuts are going on everywhere in all federal spending except Iraq and…
MONTGOMERY — It is a hypothetical question that may be moot by the time you read this, but several readers of this column have posed a similar question: Should Don Siegelman and the three other defendants in the corruption case in Montgomery all be acquitted would they have any legal recourse to recover the hundreds…
I am worn out. Worn out from watching and listening to and reading candidates beating each other like rented mules. Far as I can tell only folks benefiting from these public floggings are the TV and radio executives who sell the floggers the ad time. But like any campaign should, the one just past has…
ROANOKE – The Alabama Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics Bureau sent a letter to Mayor Spec Bonner outlining what improvements need to be made to the Roanoke Municipal Airport’s runway to receive a license. John Eagerton, chief of the Aeronautics Bureau and author of the letter, said the letter was designed to tell Roanoke the airport…
A Roanoke teenager was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine following a car chase on Friday evening. According to the report from Roanoke Police Department, Weston Whaley Jones, 18, of 1302 Brookside Dr., Roanoke, was observed allegedly driving erratically by police officers on routine patrol. Jones’s vehicle was on U.S. 431 and then turned onto Lane’s Chapel…
Hardee’s restaurants have an amusing new ad campaign with shaking cows and good-for-nothing, big-breasted chickens, but the former employees of the Roanoke Hardee’s probably aren’t laughing. They didn’t get paid for the last two weeks they worked. The Roanoke Hardee’s was among those owned by Grand Star in Atlanta, and it was closed without prior…
Through May 30 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Drayton Nabers raised more than $2.2 million in his race against challenger Tom Parker. More surely came in during the final week leading up to the June 6 primary. That is what makes this remarkable. This was just the party primary to determine who the Republican nominee…
Randolph County Sheriff’s Office made four drug arrests on Friday on County Road 401 in the Pinetucky community of north-central Randolph County. Arrested were Johnny Mack McComb, also known as James Kenneth Williams, 49, and Angela Ann McKey, 39, of 2028 County Rd. 47, Newell. They were both charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. McComb…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Curmilla Furgerson, 56, of LaGrange, Ga., died Thursday, June 15, 2006, at West Georgia Medical Center, LaGrange. She was born May 19, 1950, in LaFayette, daughter of the late Robert and Emma Lee Cole Brumbelow, and had lived in LaGrange since 1975. She was a member of Second Baptist Church and retried as…
(ROANOKE) Graveside services for Ronald Alton “Ronnie” Moore, 50, of Roanoke will be Saturday, June 17, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens, with the Rev. Cleve Moore officiating. The family will receive friends at Quattlebaum Funeral Home from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday. Mr. Moore died Thursday, June 15, at his home.…
Probate Judge George Diamond strongly defended his employees and those working last week’s election amid criticism about the late reporting of race totals, which he attributes to late arrival of the chips or memory cards from the polling stations. Standing up for his employees and the others working the election he said: “I’d like to…