WADLEY – The Southern Union Bison continued their winning ways with a double-header sweep of Faulkner University’s JV team on Monday.SU 6, Faulkner JV 0In the first game, freshman Brian Futral, making his first start of the season after recording five saves in five relief appearances, tossed a complete-game no hitter to lead the Bison…
WADLEY – The Southern Union Bison are stumbling to the finish line as they prepare to wrap up the regular season and begin ACCC tournament play. The Bison have lost two straight and four of their last six, falling into a third place tie with Enterprise-Ozark in the ACCC South division after the Weevils’ 74-67…
Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions faced some tough questions during his Congressional update in Roanoke City Hall last Wednesday. During the wide-ranging discussion on the Iraqi War, contracting port authority operations to a government-owned entity of the United Arab Emirates, and health care, energy was probably the most-discussed subject. Sessions said the U.S. Army is not…
WADLEY – Southern Union State Community College’s Nursing Department and the staff of Wadley Cornerstone Family Clinic are teaming up to sponsor a free health fair for Wadley and the surrounding communities. The event will be held Wednesday, March 8, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the student center on Southern Union’s Wadley campus.…
When a tsunami hit Indonesia a little over a year ago, Kodiak shoe executive Wayne Elsey of Nashville, Tenn., organized a project that resulted in 150,000 victims receiving badly needed shoes. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast in late August 2005, he turned the project, which was quickly dubbed Katrina Shoes, back home. It…
MONTGOMERY — A week ago a survey authorized by the Mobile Register and conducted by University of South Alabama Polling Group produced some very grim numbers for former Chief Justice Roy Moore in his race with Gov. Bob Riley for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. It showed Riley leading by a two-to-one margin. Now comes another…
JACKSONVILLE – You wouldn’t know it by the score, but as Woodland went into the locker room at halftime of their 76-48 loss to Sand Rock in last Wednesday’s regional playoff game, the Lady Bobcats were in big trouble. Despite whittling a 14-point first-quarter deficit to just two points by the half, Woodland’s foul situation…
This election year will not get in full swing until Democratic Party qualifying starts Monday, March 6, but a number of local and state offices will be decided at the polls and four people have qualified on the Republican Party ticket so far. Republican qualifying began Jan. 3. Bob Fincher, Randolph County Republican Party chairman,…
The seed of a library begun in 1934 in the corner of a dress shop on Main Street grew until it blossomed into an official library Feb. 5, 1941. Today’s beautiful library on College Street, next to the school campus, owes its beginnings to this group of women who organized into the Literary Club that…
WEDOWEE – The staff of Wedowee Hospital welcomed U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers who toured the facility on Thursday morning of last week. Administrator Farrell Turner told Rogers and his district director Lamar Denkins of improvements and changes made in the clinics, staff and facilities at Wedowee Hospital in recent years. “He is sensitive to the…
Arrests Kenneth Lamar Bell, 29, of Montgomery was arrested on Feb. 29 and charged with failure to pay fines. Jenny Brook, 24, of LaGrange, Ga., was arrested on Feb. 27 and charged with failure to appear in court. Tony Lamar Pinkard, 32, of 226 Piedmont St., Roanoke, was arrested on Feb. 24 and charged with…
Ever since we invaded Iraq three years ago, undermanned and under-equipped, our armed forces there have had to deal with equipment shortages and shortcomings. The situation was so bad for a while that families and entire communities were buying body armor for their loved ones that the Pentagon was not providing. Troops in many areas…
A Roanoke teenager faces an assault charge after an incident Monday on East Avenue. According to investigator Billy Lane, Antonio Bernard Hughley, 18, of 1425 Satterwhite St. is charged with first-degree attempted assault and shooting into an occupied dwelling. Prior to the event for which Hughley is charged, the suspect was involved in a fight…
The East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission’s Area Agency on Aging (EAPPDC) will host two Medicare Prescription Drug Plan enrollment assistance events. Help will be available on Monday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the County Courthouse Annex in Wedowee and on Tuesday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.…
WEDOWEE – “Y’all have worked! Y’all have begged,” said Commissioner Ed Creed to Carol Nicholson, president of Randolph County Animal Shelter. Nicholson addressed Randolph County Commission during last Thursday’s workshop meeting to fill them in on the shelter’s progress and its needs. She informed them that on a per capita basis, the rural area of…
(WADLEY) Maria Annette Staples, 33, of Cooledge Street, Wadley, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, at Randolph Medical Center, Roanoke. Services will be Monday, March 6, at 1 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Wadley, with the Rev. Gregory Scott and the Rev. Cornelius Reese officiating. Burial will be in Cogar Hill C.M.E. Church Cemetery. Survivors…
(ROANOKE) Services for John Thomas Clack, 49, of Roanoke will be Friday, March 3, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Frank Barnes officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 3:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Mr. Clack died Monday,…
(TALLADEGA) Jean Shivers Hopewell, 77, of Talladega died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in Talladega. Mrs. Hopewell was a native of Wadley, born June 3, 1928. She was a homemaker. Survivors include two daughters, Nancy H. Campbell of Talladega and Lynda H Peters of Richardson, Texas; and two sons, William C Hopewell of Oneonta and David…
(ATLANTA) James William Foster, 80, of Atlanta died Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, at South Fulton Medical Center, East Point, Ga. Mr. Foster was born Dec. 22, 1925, in Randolph County, son of the late John Wesley Foster and Mattie Lou Barfield Foster. He was a resident of Troup County and Fulton County, Ga. Mr. Foster…
(HEFLIN) A memorial service for Juliabel Jennings, 85, of Heflin was at noon on Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, at Brown & Kughn Memory Chapel with a eulogy presented by Pam Jeffers. Mrs. Jennings died Thursday, Feb. 23, at Regional Medical Center, Anniston. She is survived by one daughter, Cindy McLeroy of Anniston; one son, Don…