IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMAIN RE: JOHNNY JAMES ANGLIN, DECEASEDADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMSLetters of Administration on the Estate of Johnny James Anglin, deceased, having been granted to Patricia Yearta on the 27th day of Sept. 2017, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES DAVID OAKES, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to Brenda Parmer Oakes on the 28th day of Sept., 2017, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of the…
ADVERTISEMENT FOR COMPLETION In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39 of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that S. Electrical Contractors Inc., Contractor, has completed the Contract for Improvements to Handley High School Football Stadium, Proposal “C”, #16-115B at 557 Main St., Roanoke, AL 36274 for the State of Alabama and Randolph/Roanoke, owners, and have…
The Randolph County Commission is considering the feasibility of closing a section of roadway in the Big Springs community being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of County Road 34 and County Road 645, for a point of beginning, thence run northerly along said County Road 645 a distance of 0.105 miles…
(ROANOKE) Paul Lamar Smith, 44, of Government Street, Roanoke, died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center, in LaGrange. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 4, at Sword of the Spirit Ministries at Christian Memorial Baptist Church, Roanoke. The Rev. Tommie L. Finley will officiate, and the Rev. William…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Penny L. Holloway, 63, of Roanoke will be Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, at 2 p.m. at High Pine Baptist Church with the Revs. Chuck Potts and Kevin Ramsey officiating. Burial will follow at Cedarwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday. Mrs. Holloway…
(VESTAVIA HILLS) The Rev. Dr. Belon O. Friday died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, surrounded by family. A celebration of the Rev. Dr. Friday’s life will be Monday, Oct. 2, at 1 p.m. at Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Vestavia Hills. Visitation will be in the sanctuary from 11 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. Burial will…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) George C. Ogletree, 66, of LaGrange, Ga., died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, at Hospice LaGrange. The funeral was at 2 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Hunter-Allen-Myhand Funeral Home with the Rev. Bryan Geter officiating. Interment followed in Meadoway Gardens Cemetery on Hamilton Road. George was born Aug. 11,1951, the son of the…
(BOWDON, Ga.) Alethea Coleman of Bowdon, Ga., died Sept. 25, 2017. She was 71. The funeral was Saturday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. EDT at Herren’s Grove Baptist Church in Woodland. Bro. David Taft officiated. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Mrs. Coleman was born Oct. 16, 1945, in Savannah to the late J.C. and…
(WOODLAND) Edward Eugene “Gene” Rainwater Sr. of Woodland died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. A memorial service will be Sunday, Oct. 8, at 2 p.m. CDT at Bethel East Baptist Church, Woodland. The family will receive friends and have light refreshments following the service. Gene was the son of the late Thurmond Rainwater and Doris Rainwater…
On Friday morning of last week at approximately 8:29 a.m. the driver of this 2002 GMC box truck lost control of the vehicle and drove into the residence of Jerri Mapp and her children on Highway 22 in Wadley. No one was home at the time of the accident. The driver, Phillip Blankenship, 39, of…
The Handley High School Community Studies class has prepared “morsels” of local history to share with the citizens of Roanoke. Painted rocks with QR codes glued underneath have been placed by students around the historic downtown area as the class members led Handley Middle School sixth-graders on a walking tour. The QR codes can be…
WOODLAND – Ronnie and Brenda Prince of Woodland are the recipients of the 2017 annual Helene Mosley Memorial TREASURE Forest Award for the northern region of Alabama. TREASURE stands for Timber, Recreation, Environmental education, Aesthetics, Sustained Usable REsource. The TREASURE Forest program recognizes forest owners for their forest management that meets certification standards of the…
Keri Hallford talked to a group of interested citizens at Annie L. Awbrey Public Library last Wednesday about the art of World War I. The collections archivist of Alabama Department of Archives & History did a PowerPoint presentation of the war’s art, explaining how the posters evoked feelings of patriotism, encouraging soldiers to enlist, preserving…
The Johnny Ray bicyclists had a beautiful day Saturday to ride from Opelika to Roanoke and back with Main Street Theatre and Roanoke Rotary Club once again serving as a rest stop. William Fuller’s bicycle rode again, but he was not the one on it. “My grandson took my bike, and he rode the 20-mile…
WEDOWEE – Tanner Health System will host a public open house at the new hospital facility on Saturday, Sept. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The hospital is located at 1032 S. Main St. in Wedowee, adjacent to the Tanner/East Alabama medical office building. Tours of the new, more than 50,000-square-foot, three-story hospital will…
WEDOWEE – Randolph County Commission announced last week that, following the competitive bid process required by law, a contract was entered into with Amwaste LLC to collect the garbage in the county for areas not currently under other municipal contracts. Those persons whose garbage had been previously collected by Waste Solutions or Randolph County will…
Roanoke City Council held a workshop on properties around town that need cleaning up with city attorney John Tinney, attorney Laura Morgan, and nuisance officer Mike Cofield Monday night. After discussing ones they will later hold public hearings on they moved on to the next workshop with Tinney on the sale of the Randolph Medical…
LaFAYETTE – The speed limit in Standing Rock is going down. Monday of last week, the Chambers County Commission voted to lower the speed limit in the Standing Rock community to 45 mph after residents there strongly opposed recent action by the commission to raise the speed limit on County Road 278, which runs through…
Another week, another lopsided score for the Wadley Bulldogs. The latest edition was a 56-6 drubbing of Ragland that gave Wadley its 17th straight region win and its third straight 4-0 start to a season. Wadley led Ragland 28-0 after the first quarter and 41-0 at halftime. Coby Nunn scored three touchdowns – two as…