WADLEY – It’s not often that a team can outscore its opponent 23-6 over a 6-minute span in the fourth quarter and lose. But the Wadley Lady Bulldogs did just that in their 60-52 loss to the Alabama School for the Deaf last Tuesday night. The Lady Bulldogs managed just eleven total points in the…

The Wadley Bulldogs got back on the winning track last Tuesday night with a 67-52 win over the Alabama School for the Deaf. Junior forward Terrell Zachery stuffed the stat sheet with 27 points, 15 rebounds, eight assists, and eight steals as the Bulldogs raised their record to 5-10 on the season. The difference in…

All four county schools will begin (or continue) their area tournament play throughout the rest of the week and into the weekend. Here’s the schedule and some hypotheticals for the tournaments. Admission to all games is $5 per person. WOODLAND GIRLS One of only two teams in the county to host a tournament, the Lady…

(HEFLIN) Services for Deborah Anne Burson, 56, of Heflin will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, at Pinetucky Baptist Church with the Rev. G.W. Burson officiating. Burial will be in Pinetucky Cemetery with Dryden Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Burson died Tuesday, Feb. 1, at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. Survivors include her…

(VALLEY) Earlene Nelson Lauderdale, 71, of Valley died Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, at George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Valley. Funeral services will be Saturday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m. at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Rev. Marvin Cantrell officiating. Burial will follow in Osanippa Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Lauderdale is…

(ASHLAND) Services for Ruby Lee Hayes, 78, of Ashland will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, at Pleasant Hill Methodist Protestant Church with the Revs. John Luckie and James J. Burkhalter officiating. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends 5-8 Friday and until 1 p.m. Saturday at Benefield Funeral…

(HEFLIN) Services for Rocky Lee Lambert, 47, of Heflin will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, at Ai Baptist Church with the Revs. Donald Leggett, Charles Benefield and Darryl Robinson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends 5-8 Thursday at Dryden Funeral Home. Mr. Lambert died Tuesday, Feb.…

(CRAGFORD) Services for Jimmy D. Looser, 63, of Cragford will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, at Mount Gilead United Methodist Church with the Revs. Ray Franklin and Jimmy Brand officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Gardens in Lanett. The family will receive friends 5-8 Thursday and until service time Friday at Benefield…

STATE MAINTENANCE PROJECT NO. 99-304-144-077-501 & 99-304-564-077-501 RANDOLPH AND CLAY COUNTIES, ALABAMA MAINTENANCE Sealed bids will be received by the Director of Transportation at the office of the Alabama Department of Transportation, Montgomery, Alabama, until 10 a.m., February 23, 2005, and at that time publicly opened for constructing the following: Resurfacing and traffic stripe on…

COUNTY OF RANDOLPH PROBATE COURT NOTICE OF HEARING TO PROBATE WILL IN RE: ESTATE OF BOB OLINGER (ROBERT LEE OLINGER) DECEASED TO: Jerry Olinger, 1565 New Elam Church Road, New Hill, NC 27562 Billy Olinger, 1311 N. Mineral Springs Road, Durham, NC 27703 Ruth Ellis, 637 Pea Ridge Road, New Hill, NC 27562 Linda Page,…

Did any of you make it up to New York City when the Whitney Museum had the exhibit on “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend?” If you aren’t familiar with Gee’s Bend, don’t feel bad. It’s not near here or anywhere else for that matter. Located down in the heart of the Black Belt, hemmed in…

Saturday night at the Altork home was a handy, 6-hour microcosm of how our lives very well may look over the next two and a half months and beyond, what with the baby coming and all. On the roster for this week’s episode were six women – two of whom were pregnant, two of whom…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. 2004-615 THE FINANCIAL STORE INC. PLAINTIFF VS. VICKIE BROOKS DEFENDANT NOTICE OF COMPLAINT Vickie Brooks, whose whereabouts are unknown, must answer The Financial Store Inc. complaint for unpaid balance on account by March 10, 2005, or thereafter, a judgment by default may be rendered against her in Case No. SM…

(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Pauline “Polly” Lanier, 82, of LaGrange, Ga., died Monday, Jan. 31, 2005, at West Georgia Medical Center, LaGrange. Mrs. Lanier was born Jan. 9, 1923, in Randolph County, Ala., daughter of the late James Fletcher and Mattie Hester Phillips. She had lived in LaGrange most of her life and was a member of…

I fell subject the other day to one of the most infuriating series of events in the life of a pet-owner. As I have mentioned here before, my wife and I are the proud owners of two full-grown Weimaraners. The eldest was trained by my wife before I ever came into the picture and is…

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ROBERT L. DRAKE JR., DECEASED ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Robert L. Drake Jr., deceased, having been granted to April Drake on the 26th day of January, 2005, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all…

RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NTOICE Default having been made in the terms of that Mortgage executed on the 14th day of April, 2003, by Glen H. Ward and wife, Marilynn B. Ward, to First Bank, which said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book 445,…

RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that mortgage executed on the 1st day of February 1999 by Leonard Lee Coats, III to the Bank of Wedowee, said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Record 375, Pages 302-308;…

(ROANOKE) Services for Albert “Ed” Hay, 73, of Roanoke, formerly of Sycamore, will be Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Shannon Mapp officiating. Burial will follow at Fellowship Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1 to 2 p.m. on Thursday,…