WEDOWEE – Randolph County Commission approved a motion on Monday to cap personnel evaluation raises at 3 percent beginning with those in next year’s budget.“They may deserve more, but we can’t afford it,” said Commissioner Ed Creed.Sheriff Jeff Fuller contended that some employees make so little and are always at work, never complaining.Commission Chairman Lathonia…

SEAGROVE BEACH, Florida OK, this is how it happened to us. First there was Tropical Storm Cindy. On Wednesday, July 6, it hit the coast over east. We got rain, high surf and red flags. Beach disappeared. Weather Channel having a field day. Tropical Storm Dennis moving through the Caribbean. Thursday, July 7. Beaches closed.…

Roanoke Board of Education handled several personnel matters at two special called meetings during the past week. Kay Cotney announced her retirement from her position of counselor at Knight-Enloe Elementary effective July 1. Advertising has begun to fill this vacancy. Katie Horn was hired as fifth-grade reading teacher at Handley Middle School. Kadie Hodges was…

Hurricane Dennis was not as bad as feared, although it did cause significant losses to those more directly in its path. In addition to the economic damage these increasingly frequent storms cause, they frequently cause injury and death. Indirectly they threaten us all by decreasing the supply of blood our hospitals have available to them.…

7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Woodland Volunteer Fire Department. THURSDAY, July 14 noon Roanoke Rotary Club meets at The Galley Restaurant. 1 p.m. Lamar Denkins with Congressman Mike Rogers’ office will be at Wedowee Town Hall until 3 p.m. to meet with constituents. 6:30 p.m. Roanoke Schools Association meets at Awbrey Public Library. 7…

I’ve been known to have quite a temper when no one else is around. Off the top of my head I can visualize at least two telephones lying in heaps of computerized rubble on my bedroom floor after being repeatedly hurled against the wall and smashed to bits. And speaking of the wall. My bedroom…

MONTGOMERY — The timing couldn’t have been better. Only a day or so before Gov. Bob Riley issued the call for a special session of the Legislature to pass a general fund budget, the State Revenue Department released some remarkably encouraging figures on state tax collections. Revenue is pouring into the state in an unexpected…

(BELMOPAN, Belize) The Rev. Lindsey Juhan Mitchell, 88, died in Belmopan, Belize, Central America on July 4, 2005. He was a native of Randolph County, had pastored at several churches in the county, and was a retired principal of Rock Mills School. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lula Maude Mitchell. Rev. Mitchell…

(VESTAVIA HILLS) Grace Lollar Downing Gravlee, 92, of Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, died at her home on June 30, 2005, after a lengthy illness. She was 92. A native of Lamar County, Alabama, she had made Birmingham her home since 1941. Mrs. Gravlee graduated from Lamar County High School at the age of…

(WEDOWEE) Services for Lera Mae McCain Post, 95, of Wedowee will be Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 10 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel, Wedowee, with the Rev. Bobby Burroughs officiating. Burial will be in Crestlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Marietta, Ga., at 1:30 p.m. CDT. Pallbearers will be her grandsons. The family will receive friends on…

(CUSSETA) Willmer Mae Daniel, 76, of Cusseta died Friday, July 8, 2005 at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Services will be Monday, July 11, at 2 p.m. at Three Pines Baptist Church, with the Rev. Bill Heath officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery, Lanett. The family will receive friends Sunday from 5 to 7…

(WEST POINT, Ga.) Julia Pearl McFarlin, 64, of West Point, Ga., died Tuesday, July 5, 2005, at Hospice LaGrange in LaGrange, Ga. Funeral services will be Monday, July 11, at 2 p.m. EDT at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church in the Welch community with the Revs. Mario McDaniel, Stanford Johnson and William Patterson officiating. Burial will…

(ROANOKE) Willis Pittman, 65, of 1215 Stanley Avenue, Roanoke, died Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at his home. Services will be Saturday, July 9, at 2 p.m. at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Delta, with the Revs. Craig McClure, Robert Welch and Jeffery D. Rosser officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include a daughter,…

RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that mortgage executed on the 18th day of June 2002 by Joel Snyder and wife, Julia Snyder the Bank of Wedowee, said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Record 430, Pages…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: THE ESTATE OF EDITH J. HAMBY, DEC. Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to J. Thomas Randall of the Baptist Foundation of Alabama on the 30th day of June, 2005, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given to all…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF WILLIS HERREN, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Letters of Testamentary of said deceased have been granted to the undersigned on the 1st day of July, 2005, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said…

It seems that the people of Estonia have a knack for something quite peculiar. They are the world’s best wife-carriers. According to an article on Reuters.com, Margo Uusorg (that’s the guy) and Egle Soll beat out 39 other couples from nine other countries to bring the title back to Estonia for the eighth straight year.…