(HEFLIN) Funeral services for David Elijah Gann, 87, of Heflin will be Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Joseph Newborn and Jimmy Brand officiating. Burial will follow at Pinetucky Cemetery.The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on Saturday.Mr. Gann died Thursday, Sept.…
It’s Football Friday, which means it’s time for me to tell you what’s going to happen tonight in high school football and tomorrow in college football so you don’t have to watch the games. (Just kidding. Definitely watch them. If you don’t know where to go tonight to watch a game, come see me in…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Walter William Holloway, 77, of Roanoke will be Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Bro. Scott Whaley, Bro. Steve Williams and Bro. Henry Nelson officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Kimberly “Michelle” Greene, 48, of Wedowee will be Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at noon at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Dr. Jeremy Pridgeon officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 11 a.m.-noon on Saturday before services begin. Ms. Greene died Tuesday, Sept. 4, at UAB Hospital in Birmingham.…
ROCK MILLS – Last Wednesday afternoon tragedy struck as fire broke out in the home of Dee Ann Garey on Highway 22, east of Rock Mills. Thankfully, neither Dee Ann nor the three children were hurt, but the house is unlivable due to fire destroying a large part of it. According to the report from…
(LAKELAND, Fla.) Frank Delnore Anglin, 84, of Lakeland, Fla., died Friday, August 31, 2018. The funeral will be Thursday, Sept. 6, at 11 a.m. at Heath Funeral Chapel in Lakeland with graveside services immediately following at Oak Hill Burial Park. He was born in Roanoke on Dec. 4, 1933, to Oliver William and Mary Lou…
Randolph County Animal Shelter’s Fall Book Sale will be on successive Saturdays, Oct. 13 and 20, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Chris Mitchum’s warehouse on Main Street in Roanoke. “We again will be featuring our military and history display. In addition, many new books have been arriving daily,” said Evelyn Smith, fundraising chairperson.…
New coach. New players. Same result. That was the story for the Wadley Bulldogs as they won head coach Jonathan Farr’s regular season debut with a 48-0 thrashing of Woodland Friday in Wadley. The imbalance between the two county teams remained heavily in Wadley’s favor despite Wadley breaking in an almost entirely new set of…
WADLEY – As the freshmen started the next chapter of their lives at Southern Union State Community College on Aug. 20, there was another new face on campus as well – in the president’s office. Todd Shackett was selected by Alabama Community College System’s board of trustees on July 11 as president after 10 years…
Roanoke City School Board had a busy meeting last week approving the 2018-2019 budget; welcoming two new school board members and saying goodbye to a third longtime board member; hearing discipline reports from the three principals; and approving the five-year capital plan. Budget Superintendent Chuck Marcum and chief financial officer Pam Mitchum explained the new…
MONTGOMERY – Randolph County Commission has been presented with a 2018 Safety Award by the Association of County Commissions of Alabama’s (ACCA) Self-Insurance Liability Fund Inc. for the commission’s outstanding efforts to improve safety and reduce liability exposures from 2015 to 2017. Presented annually at the ACCA Annual Convention in August, the awards are given…
Southern Union State Community College’s online English Composition I course (English 101) recently received the nationally recognized Quality Matters Certification Mark for meeting course design standards in an Official Quality Matters peer review. Quality Matters (QM), a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer review process that certifies the quality of online courses, has recognized Southern Union English…
It was not what anyone would classify as a virtuoso performance from Class 3A’s top-ranked team, but RCHS beat Notasulga 28-14 in Friday’s season opener, and for now the Tigers will take it. Atario Hester rushed for 158 yards and three touchdowns, and the Tigers overcame three lost fumbles and 12 penalties to hold on…
For the third straight year Handley managed just two touchdowns against Tallassee. And for the third straight year that wasn’t enough. Tallassee scored the go-ahead touchdown on a fourth-down play early in the fourth quarter to come from behind and knock off Handley 16-12 Friday night. While that final play pushed Tallassee over the top,…
Just when it seemed everything was all coming together for the Clay Central Volunteers, it all came apart. Benjamin Russell scored 28 unanswered second half points to erase a 17-0 Central lead before ending up with a 28-23 victory to spoil Danny Horn’s debut as Central head coach. “You don’t expect to lose a 17-point…
With the expectations at Ranburne set higher than they’ve been in the past two seasons, Ranburne head coach Stephen Bailey was cautiously optimistic heading into his team’s regular season opener against Glencoe Friday. That optimism was rewarded, as Ranburne cruised to a 41-7 victory. “We felt like we were the better team going in, but…
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated February 22, 1994, executed by King E. Longshore, a single person, to The United States of America, acting through the Farmers Home Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, which mortgage was recorded on February 23, 1994,…
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated June 19, 1980, executed by George Bryant and wife, Bessie S. Bryant, to the United States of America, acting through the Farmers Home Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, which mortgage was recorded on June 20,…
PUBLIC NOTICE The Randolph County Commission is considering the feasibility of closing a section of roadway in the Bethel Community being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of County Road 87 and County Road 445, for a point of beginning, thence run northerly along said County Road 445 a distance of 0.045…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEBRA TOMBLIN JANES, DECEASED Letters of Administration on the Estate of Debra Tomblin Janes, deceased, having been granted to Haley Tomblin, on the 31st day of Aug., 2018, by the Hon. George Diamond, Judge of Probate Court of Randolph County,…