(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Melissa Young, age 56, of Roanoke will be Saturday, March 10, 2018, at 1 p.m. at Roanoke First United Methodist Church with the Revs. Tim Whaley and Chris Martin officiating. Burial will follow at Highway Methodist Church Cemetery.The family will receive friends at the church from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday…
(RAINBOW CITY) The Rev. Marion M. Shivers, 96, of Rainbow City died Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at Gadsden Health and Rehab Center. The funeral will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 10, in the chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville, Ga. The Rev. John Evans and Dr. Gary Ashley will…
(LaFAYETTE) Dian Reed Thomas, 71, of LaFayette died Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at East Alabama Medical Center. Graveside services will be held Friday, March 9, at 4 p.m. at LaFayette City Cemetery with the Rev. Paul Howard officiating. Visitation will be at the funeral home Friday from 2-3:30 p.m. prior to the graveside. Mrs. Thomas…
(SYLACAUGA) Stephen Terry Dean, Christian, husband, father, son, brother, pastor, teacher and friend to all, was born Jan. 28, 1966, in Sylacauga to parents Judy and Terry Dean. He went home to be with the Lord on March 6, 2018, in Birmingham, surrounded by his loved ones. The celebration of his life will be at…
(ANNISTON) Funeral services for Laura Norris, 67, of Anniston will be Friday, March 9, 2018, at 1 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Barry Cosper and Jerry Wiggins and Dr. Roland Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Bethel East Baptist Cemetery, Woodland. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8…
Woodland nearly put a stone between a giant’s eyes Monday, but the Bobcats’ seventh-inning rally fizzled against 6A Opelika in a 10-7 Woodland loss. Starting seven players in the ninth grade and below, Woodland gave Opelika all it could handle late after falling behind 9-3 heading to the bottom of the sixth inning. “They don’t…
It’s safe to say that the Wadley baseball season has not started the way the team and head coach Ken Fordham would have hoped. Yes, the Bulldogs are 2-1, including a solid 8-6 win over RCHS last Tuesday. But they’ve had to play those three games without key player and vocal leader Jamichael Angel, who…
Grease spill detour Traffic on U.S. 431 near Rock Stand had to be detoured on Wednesday evening of last week because of a grease spill in the northbound lanes. Randolph County EMA director Donnie Knight said no one witnessed it, so they are not sure what company is responsible, but it appeared to be residue…
Roanoke Superintendent of Education Chuck Marcum swore in Regina Joiner last Tuesday to fill the remaining 3.5 years of Marianne Jordan’s five-year term. Jordan was serving as president of the board when she died in January. Vice president Rosalyn Houston is presiding over the meetings. Marcum welcomed Mrs. Joiner and suggested she might want to…
The theater class of Handley High School has been busily preparing a production of the musical Godspell. The show has enjoyed a long, rich history because the stories it tells are timeless. Basically it tells many of the parables of Jesus as found in the Book of Matthew and a few from the Gospel of…
Shanna Lockwood refers to it as a “post-Olympic stupor.” If you traveled nine time zones away from home, spent 18 days working 15-hour shifts, processing over 5,000 photographs in that time and viewing as much as 10 times that many images, well, when it was all done you’d probably be in a stupor too. But…
On Monday, Feb. 26, according to Wedowee Police Department, officers responded to a call at Randolph-Roanoke Career Technology Center regarding an alleged verbal threat made by a student. The student was immediately detained by school officials after the alleged threat and then law enforcement was alerted. Wedowee Police responded immediately. The school was never placed…
A Randolph County Jail inmate was captured on Friday of last week after walking away from a work detail on Wednesday. Shannon Gregory Hendricks, 41, is charged with second-degree escape. Hendricks had been scheduled to be released next month from jail. A tip to authorities led to his arrest at a residence on Louina Road…
LaFAYETTE – Chambers County engineer Josh Harvill announced at the Feb. 26 meeting of the Chambers County Commission that work is presently underway on putting in some new drainage structures on County Roads 263, 281 and 282. “There are two locations on County Roads 281 and 282 and one location on County Road 263 that…
In addition to being the final week of Standard Time (Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday, so remember to set your watches and clocks ahead by one hour Saturday night) this week, March 4-10, is National Consumer Protection Week. The week serves as a reminder to be on guard against scams and fraud, although we need…
The latest go-to place to go on the Florida Panhandle is Scenic Highway 30-A. Right in the middle of what tourist development branders have branded “The Emerald Coast,” resorts along this stretch of road attract thousands of visitors each year. It was there, on that road, that the Redneck Riviera died. Those folks helped kill…
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. CV-2017-900062.00 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION PLAINTIFF VS. JACOBO MATIAS CASTILLO DEFENDANT LEGAL NOTICE Notice to Defendant of Complaint issued out of the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama, Federal National Mortgage Association vs. Jacobo Matias Castillo, Case Number: CV-2017-900062. Notice is given in the above-entitled…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: GROVER BARRY PAYNE III, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GROVER BARRY PAYNE III, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Grover Barry Payne III, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 1st day of March, 2018,…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Lloyd Craft, a single man, on March 28, 2014, to First State Bank, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book 595, Page 113,…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Debra Yates Gosdin, an unmarried woman, originally in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Keystone Bank, on the 17th day of July, 2013, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…