MONTGOMERY – U. S. Rep. Artur Davis has never made any secret of the fact that he has far higher ambitions than serving in Congress. What Davis hopes to be is Alabama’s first black governor or first black U. S. senator.In a remarkably candid interview with the Mobile Register, the two-term congressman said he is…
Local citizens for years have seen major road projects that appeared to make little sense going on in other parts of the state, while improvements to local roads, notably U.S. 431 have been on hold. We’ve always suspected politics played a big role in where the transportation dollars went. Now someone who knows has confirmed…
(LINEVILLE) Services for Phillip Dale Reaves, 52, of Lineville were Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Jerry Bolt officiating. Burial was in Wesley’s Chapel Christian Church Cemetery. Mr. Reaves died Friday, June 3, at his residence. Mr. Reaves is survived by one daughter, Jennifer Sanogo of Ft.…
(WOODLAND) James Ralph Parmer, 84, of 18506 County Road 87, Woodland died Monday, June 6, 2005 at Carrollton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Services will be Wednesday, June 8, at 1 p.m. CDT at Bethel East Baptist Church, with the Revs. Terry Eason and Jimmy Palmer officiating. Music will be by the church choir. Interment will…
(BIRMINGHAM) Charlie Knight, 84, of Birmingham and a native of Randolph County died Sunday, June 5, 2005, at Preston Hospital in Birmingham. Services will be Saturday, June 11, at 1 p.m. at Pine Flat Primitive Baptist Church, Wedowee, with Elder Thomas Knight officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. There will be no public…
Randolph County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspected murder-suicide that occurred Friday around 9:15 p.m. According to investigator James Bailey, deputies responded to 2998 County Rd. 82, a mobile home west of Foster’s Bridge, after receiving a 911 call. There they found the bodies of Phillip Dale Reaves, 52, and his wife, Judy Ross Reaves,…
(HAMMOND, Ind.) Annie L. Lawson, 82, of Hammond, Ind., died Monday, May 23, 2005, at Select Specialty Hospital in Hammond. She was born Dec. 26, 1922, in Roanoke to the late Vera and Gertrude Carter. She was also preceded in death by her sister, Ruthie Adams, in 1990. Mrs. Lawson is survived by her daughter,…
(WOODLAND) James Ralph Parmer, 84, of 18506 County Road 87, Woodland died Monday, June 6, 2005 at Carrollton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Services will be Wednesday, June 8, at 1 p.m. CDT at Bethel East Baptist Church. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at Rainwater Funeral Home, Bowdon, Ga.,…
(HOOVER) Services for James Porter Benefield, 85, of Hoover, formerly of Roanoke, will be Monday, June 6, 2005 at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, Roanoke, with the Rev. William L. Dean officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6…
(LANETT) The Rev. Gordon Harris, 85, a retired Baptist minister, died Saturday, June 4, 2005 at Bethany House. Services will be at Johnson Brown Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley on Monday, June 6, at 3 p.m. EDT. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery in Lanett. Rev. Harris was a graduate of Howard College (Samford…
Services for Carl Leonard Holtzclaw, 73, of Roanoke, formerly of Newnan, Ga., will be Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 1 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Stanley Daniel and the Rev. Shannon Mapp officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens. Visitation will be at the funeral home on Saturday from 5 to…
(ROANOKE) Services for Mary Sue Hunter Nichols, 97, of Roanoke will be Sunday, June 5, 2005, at 3 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Bill Dean officiating. Burial will follow in Cedarwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2 to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Mrs. Nichols died Friday,…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Exola Green Bryan, 89, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at West Georgia Medical Center. Mrs. Bryan was born Aug. 19, 1915, in Randolph County, daughter of the late Lewis W. and Ludie Cline Green. She was a retired nurse’s assistant from Bowdon Area Hospital and was a member of Providence…
Running and jumping. They are two things that we all do from the time we get our feet underneath us as young toddlers to the time our legs fail us as old geezers. And from that young age on, we feel compelled to know the answer to those questions that somehow define competition in a…
Holley to become new principal by Tim Altork Former Handley High School head football coach Jimmy Holley will take over as principal of the school effective July 1 of this year. After resigning his post as head coach after the 2003 season, Holley stayed at Handley and served as assistant principal for the following school…
Rex Ballenger retired on May 1 after spending more than 41 years with the U.S. Postal Service, the past 19 of them as Roanoke’s postmaster. “I have really enjoyed meeting many great people and have had outstanding employees. I have done to the best of my ability to serve more than 7,000 customers during this…
As most know, for the past several weeks, churches around Randolph County have observed their homecomings, also known as memorial days or decoration days, at which time the members and their families make it a point to clean the church cemeteries and decorate the graves with flowers. A cemetery is a place where one can…
WEDOWEE – David Johnson hopes this summer will be just peachy. After planting about 1,500 peach trees off Highway 48 between Wedowee and Woodland three years ago, Johnson is harvesting his first crop of tree-ripened peaches. Johnson, an established vegetable farmer, has planted several varieties in the orchard to insure that the various trees produce…
Roanoke Police Department executed a search warrant on Thursday afternoon of last week at 1425 Satterwhite St. They arrested a 17-year-old male juvenile who resided at the house and charged him with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Randolph County Sheriff’s Department, Wedowee Police Department and the Chambers County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit…
MONTGOMERY — A referendum in the booming city of Millbrook to decide if it should have its own school system would not normally be a story of statewide interest. But the election focused new attention on a growing concern: How many separate school systems can the state afford? Each of the state’s 67 counties has…