ALABAMA, RANDOLPH COUNTYDefault having been made in the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Steven S. Litsey and Kelly Litsey to North American Mortgage Company, Inc., dated March 14, 2001, said mortgage being recorded in Book 411, Page 263, in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama. Said Mortgage…
(WADLEY) Graveside services for Nell Hay Whaley, 74, of Wadley will be Friday, March 4, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Wadley City Cemetery, with the Revs. Zenus Windsor and Jimmy Holmes officiating. The family will receive friends at Quattlebaum Funeral Home in Roanoke from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Mrs. Whaley died Wednesday, March…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) will address Randolph County residents on Saturday, March 5, at 2 p.m. at Roanoke City Hall, located at 809 Main St. Sen. Shelby will discuss his legislative agenda for the 109th Congress, as well as important issues facing the nation and Alabama. Following his remarks, Sen.…
(BESSEMER) Graveside services for Estelle Bain Owen, 77, of Bessemer will be 11 a.m. Thursday, March 3, 2005, at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Bob Bain officiating and K.L. Brown Funeral Home & Cremation Center in charge. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the…
WADLEY – Congressman Mike Rogers hosted the third meeting of his Agricultural Advisory Committee at Southern Union last Friday. The group – consisting of farmers from throughout the Congressman’s district – met for about two hours in the science and technology building on the Wadley campus. Committee members listened as Dr. Bryan Chin, a professor…
I had a teacher in high school who once told me that you can make numbers do anything you want. (Although I have yet to see numbers out in my yard cleaning up the debris from last month’s ice storm.) I also had a basketball coach who, when explaining the numbers game in a fast…
WADLEY – With Enterpise-Ozark nipping at their heels – both in the standings and in Monday’s game – the Southern Union Bison clinched a tie for second place in the ACCC South with a 73-70 win. Reserve forward Donald Young drained two free throws with 8.1 seconds left in the game that gave SU a…
Southern Union suffered their first loss of the season Saturday with a 9-5 decision at the hands of Meridian Community College in the Meridian, Miss., tournament over the weekend. The loss was the only hiccup in what has been a hot start for the Bison. Heading into Tuesday’s game against Faulkner the Bison sported a…
When SU point guard Morgan Brooker was catching a breather in the second half of Southern Union’s 64-59 win over Enterprise-Ozark on Monday, head coach Janet Sparks had some words of advice. “I told her to just keep shooting, that her shots would fall eventually,” said Sparks. How right she was. Brooker – who had…
Several collectors of historical folk pottery created in the Rock Mills/ Roanoke/ Bacon Level area will display pieces from their collection on Saturday, March 19, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hub Restaurant in Wedowee. There will be signed pieces on display by potter families, such as the Boggs, Pounds, Pittman and Ussery…
Dr. Chester B. Primm, physician at Randolph County Hospital for 38 years, died on Thursday of last week at Traylor Nursing Home in Roanoke. He was 85. Services for Dr. Primm were Saturday at Roanoke Church of Christ, followed by burial at Randolph Memory Gardens. He was born Jan. 11, 1920, in Idabel, Okla., the…
Three Roanoke residents were injured, two seriously, in an accident on Tuesday morning in Heard County, Ga. According to reports, the accident happened about 6:20 at the intersection of Glenn Road and Georgia Highway 34. Jesse Boggs, 23, of Roanoke, the driver of a Toyota truck, had to be freed from his vehicle and was…
The Wall That Heals, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will bring the message of The Wall to Alexander City March 10-13. Located at the Sportplex in Alexander City, the exhibition will feature the dramatic replica – stretching nearly 250 feet in total length – as well as an information…
Roanoke Board of Education handled more business relating to school construction projects at its February meeting. Gerald Romine will be hired as construction superintendent and administrator of the Handley Middle School library addition and renovation project. Romine will be paid $1,000 per week not to exceed $24,000. The start date will be announced later. When…
The battle between AEA head Paul Hubbert and Gov. Bob Riley over the governor’s proposed budget will only get uglier, but the outcome should be a reasonable compromise for the sake of education in the state. AEA’s attempts to portray Riley as being against schoolchildren would be laughable except for the fact that some people…
WEDOWEE – Randolph County Commission chairman Lathonia Wright reported that representatives of the State Health Department are looking at three parcels of property on U.S. 431 in Roanoke for a place to build the new county health department. The building will be built with bond money, but now local health department representatives are inquiring as…
Kickoff event this Saturday The Wedowee Volunteer Fire Department has received a grant from the Alabama Smoke Alarm Initiative to increase home fire safety awareness in the town of Wedowee. Members of the volunteer fire department will go door to door to provide home fire safety education and install free smoke alarms to town residents…
MONTGOMERY — The closest thing we have had to World War III in Alabama politics has erupted in Montgomery. On one side, firing away with all the weapons at his command, is Gov. Bob Riley. On the other side is Dr. Paul Hubbert, the all-powerful head of the Alabama Education Association, a.k.a. the teachers union.…
Let me begin with a tribute to the folks who made us what we are today. To that group of men who created for us a state where the rich (unless they are stupid or unlucky) will stay rich because the poor (unless fortune smiles their way) will stay poor, and the middle-class will stay…
The Handley Tigers committed two costly errors in the bottom of the fifth inning that allowed Ranburne to break open a 2-2 game and pull away for a 6-2 win in the season opener for both squads. The sloppy fifth inning negated a strong pitching effort by senior right-hander Brian Taylor (0-1). Taylor went five…