Woodland (3-1) at No. 1 Wadley (4-0)Let’s start with Wadley. The Bulldogs come into this game with a 25-game regular season winning streak that dates back to 2002. Despite being a little banged up the Bulldogs will have all their pieces in place after playing four clearly inferior opponents to start the season.The Bulldog defense…
More than 100 employees of a Roanoke sewing operation were laid off from their jobs this summer, possibly for good. A former employee of American Apparel notified The Randolph Leader last week that the company, which had government contracts to sew military uniforms, started gradually laying off employees in July. The employees were at first…
ROCKFORD – Chris Sears connected with Marquinton Phillips on a 6-yard touchdown pass with 20.9 seconds left in the game to propel the Handley Tigers to a bizarre and unlikely 15-12 win over Central, Coosa Friday night. It was a night of first-half foibles and second-half redemption for Handley (4-0, 3-0 in 4A,Region 3) as…
(ROANOKE) Services for J.T. Laws, 63, of Roanoke were Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Frank Foster officiating. Burial was at Rock Mills Cemetery. Mr. Laws died Friday, Sept. 16, at Traylor Nursing Home, Roanoke. Mr. Laws is survived by several cousins. Pallbearers were Wallace Bennett, Chad…
(WADLEY) Services for Hubert “Stewball” Railey, 84, of Wadley will be Monday, Sept. 19, 2005, at 11 a.m. at Mt. Gilead Methodist Church, with the Rev. Zenus Windsor officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Railey died Saturday, Sept. 17, at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. He was a native and lifelong…
(WEDOWEE) Services for Mary A. Pate, 76, of Wedowee will be Sunday, Sept. 8, 2005 at 3 p.m. at Mt. Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Roger Hammett and Bro. Junior Holloway officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mrs. Pate died Friday, Sept. 16, at her residence. The family will receive friends at…
(HEFLIN) Services for Pinkie Boyd, 74, of County Road 401, Heflin, will be Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Oak Grove A.M.E. Church, Newell, with the Rev. Theodore Hale and the Rev. James Carter officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be at Clark Memorial Funeral Service, Roanoke, from 10…
(JACKSONVILLE) Graveside services for Pauline Prestridge Spears, 85, of Jacksonville will be Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Big Springs Cemetery, Roanoke. The family will receive friends Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Spears died Friday, Sept. 16, at Regional Medical Center, Anniston. Survivors include her daughters, Jenifer…
(MOLENA, Ga.) Rev. Chester Craft, 82, of Molena, Ga., died Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005, at West Georgia Medical Center, LaGrange. Services will be at 2 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, Sept. 17, at New Friendship Baptist Church, Woodbury, Ga., with the Rev. Walker Dean officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Lineville. Visitation…
If one were to put it in terms of nostalgic television, Woodland’s football season is shaping up like a combination of M.A.S.H and the Twilight Zone. The Bobcats lost yet another key offensive performer – possibly for the rest of the season – when tailback Alex Higgins suffered a broken leg in the second half…
PROJECT NO. RCP 56-214-04 The Randolph County Commission is studying the feasibility of patching, leveling, resurfacing, striping and pavement markers on Randolph county Road Number 73, commencing at the intersection of Alabama Highway 22, thence running northerly on CR 73, 0.625 miles to County Road 26 and also Randolph County Road Number 26,, commencing at…
In his first game after breaking the 5,000-yard mark for his career, Terrance Wilkes continued to churn out yards at a breakneck pace as Wadley pummeled Donoho 56-7. Wilkes chalked up 229 yards on 14 carries and scored four times as the top-ranked Bulldogs (3-0, 2-0 in 1A, Region 5) won their 24th consecutive regular-season…
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at public auction on 9-24-05 at 10:00 a.m. at Wedowee Self Storage, 804 West Broad St., Wedowee, AL 36278 the personal property heretofore stored with the undersigned by: Space Number 23, Herman Bailey, P.O. Box 448, Wedowee, AL 36278, household goods. Space Number 38, JoAnn Carr,…
Over the first two games of the season Rod Houston had fumbled more times than he had scored. But Houston bucked that trend Friday night as he scored five touchdowns without a fumble to lead RCHS to a 38-18 win over White Plains. “Rod’s just one of those players that when the ball is in…
Arrests Anthony Rahan Higgins, 31, of 13068 Hwy. 48, Wedowee, was arrested on Sept. 11 and charged with failure to appear in court. David Horace Spradlin, 40, of 577 County Rd. 470 was arrested on Aug. 10 and charged with probation violation. George Tracey O’Neal, 40, of 2974 County Rd. 33, Wadley, was arrested on…
Roanoke Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are searching for a bank robber who held up Ft. McClellan Credit Union Tuesday morning. According to Roanoke Police Chief Adam Melton, the holdup took place at approximately 11 a.m. A white male wearing a green T-shirt and armed with a handgun went into the credit union…
WEDOWEE – In a split vote during Monday’s meeting, Randolph County Commission gave its approval for Randolph County Healthcare Authority to lease Randolph Medical Center to the city of Roanoke. Commission administrator Cindy Arrington said RCHA needs commission approval to sell or lease property, but not to purchase it (or in this case, buy it…
Handley head coach Mike Battles introduced what he called “a few new wrinkles” into his running game Friday night against Anniston. And no one can argue with the results. The Tigers ran up 312 yards on the ground as they bulldozed the Bulldogs 33-14. Three different Handley ball carriers ran for 75 yards or more,…
The Randolph County Commission is requesting Statements of Qualifications from qualified providers of grant management services to assist the County in the implementation of a CDBG project as funded under project No. CY-CM-PF-05-003 under the State’s Community Development Block Grant Competitive Fund Program through the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. Selection criteria will…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – Roanoke First United Methodist Church sent a trained disaster response team to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi to work in the disaster areas last week. The team provided damage assessment and mapping of areas. They also helped with distribution and organizing of supplies while a guest of St. Paul United Methodist…