RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMAIN RE: ESTATE OF HORACE GRAY, DEC.NOTICE OF APPOINTMENTLetters of Testamentary of said deceased have been granted to the undersigned on the 28th day of February, 2006, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said Estate are hereby…
(LANETT) Sarah S. Martin, 70, of Lanett died Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at Lanier Memorial Hospital, Valley. Services will be Friday, March 10, at 2 p.m. EST at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Wesley Dykes officiating. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Forrester’s Chapel United Methodist Church…
RANDOLPH COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE KELLY TRUCKING INC., DBA RIVERSIDE DIESEL VS. LESLIE J. BUCK STEELEY By virtue of a judgment issued out of Small Claims Court of Randolph County, Alabama, and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against Leslie J. Buck Steeley, defendant, out…
With more than twice as many inmates occupying Randolph County jail as the facility was designed to hold, something needs to happen to relieve the pressure. That something is not in the hands of local and county officials, though, but in the hands of those representing us in Montgomery. Here’s why. First, the Legislature has…
Democratic Party qualifying started Monday, March 6. Republican qualifying began Jan. 3. Candidates for some offices must qualify at the state level. Candidates qualifying at the local level include Democrats Jeff Fuller, of the Lineville part of Randolph County, who is facing a challenge from Rex Whaley, of Wedowee. On the Republican side Stephanie Rice…
(WOODLAND) Services for Bernice Green Lovvorn, 86, of Woodland, will be Thursday, March 9, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Herrens Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Wiggins and the Rev. Ray Runyan officiating. Mrs. Lovvorn will lie in state for one hour before the service at the church. Burial will follow in adjoining church…
The spring term of the Randolph County grand jury was recently held with jurors returning 173 true bills or indictments. There were indictments in a number of drug cases, rape, sodomy and child abuse cases, the manslaughter/vehicular homicide case involving two students and the case involving an assault on a Roanoke investigator. Grand jurors commended…
LAGRANGE, Ga. – Two CSX Railroad employees were shot during an apparently botched robbery last week and one of the two men injured is a former Roanoke policeman. According to information provided by the LaGrange Police Department, they responded to the area near Main Street Train Crossing about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, finding two…
About 70 years after Roosevelt Ware tucked away his beloved toy 1936 Pontiac car for safekeeping, he returned to pull it from its small rock garage in the Dickert community near Wadley. His mother died when he was two months old, and his father, John, a former slave, raised the three children. He would give…
I still come down and talk to me When the coast is clear. Jimmy Buffet The late Cleveland Amory, who first introduced me to the term “curmudgeon,” organized a group he called the “Society to Put Things Back the Way They Were.” In my younger days, when I first heard of this, I figured Amory…
Years of work are coming to fruition with the planned open house at Handley High School and the field house and the rededication of the auditorium later this month. “A $7 million project doesn’t happen very often, so we want to make sure we celebrate it in a fitting way,” Roanoke Schools Superintendent Chuck Marcum…
Sealed proposals will be received in the Room 173, Administration Building, Wadley Campus, Southern Union State Community College, Wadley, Alabama, until 2:00 p.m., Central Time, Thursday, April 6, 2006, for STUDENT RESIDENCE HALLS Wadley Campus, Southern Union State Community College at which time they will be publicly opened and read. Construction Bid Documents: Trade contractor…
Angie Hawkins and Confederate Express are headed to Nashville March 19 to cut a bluegrass CD and sign a contract. “We’ve decided to go with Jim and Joe Music Inc. of Nashville. They seem to be more honest than anybody else,” Hawkins said. “Everybody we’ve talked to that knows anything about the music industry said…
WADLEY – Southern Union head coach Joe Jordan knew it would happen eventually. Jordan watched Friday as his team booted away their perfect season in a 13-11 loss to Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. The Bison committed two costly errors as Shorter scored six runs in the seventh inning to erase a 9-7 SU lead.…
Randolph County’s Relay for Life will run from Friday, March 31, at 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. Saturday at the Handley High School Athletic Complex (Wright Field.) Numerous other fund-raising events prior to this will contribute to the Relay for Life cause. Two events for Relay for Life will mark St. Patrick’s Day on Friday,…
MONTGOMERY — After conducting a poll to see who is leading in the two gubernatorial primaries, the University of South Alabama Polling Group has now released figures on a poll to determine who will be elected governor in November. If these numbers are to be believed, Gov. Bob Riley, at this time at least, is…
WADLEY – The RCHS Tigers put together six runs in the last two innings to overcome a 3-2 deficit and knock off Wadley at home, 8-3 on Thursday. Wadley’s early-season offensive struggles continued as they managed just four hits in the contest, all of which came in the first three innings. Lefthander Chris Glass picked…
While searching for an individual to serve a warrant on, Roanoke Police Officers happened upon a large quantity of suspected crack cocaine at a Satterwhite Street residence. According to investigator Billy Lane, patrolmen Mike Cofield and Rodney Watkins were out serving warrants on Thursday of last week and encountered several individuals who ran fled from…
WEDOWEE – Baseball has begun at French-Hammond park, the new burgeoning athletic facility just outside of Wedowee that is the brainchild of Cincinatti Reds relief pitcher and Wedowee resident Chris Hammond. The RCHS Tigers baseball team has taken the recently completed baseball field – one of two fields scheduled to eventually be constructed – twice…
(ROANOKE) James Hall, 92, of 680 Seymour Dr., Roanoke, died Sunday, March 5, 2006, at George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley. Services will be Saturday, March 11, at 1 p.m. at Mount Bethel United Methodist Church, Roanoke, with the Rev. Robert L. Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Public viewing will…