WEDOWEE–“I know we’re working, but it feels like we’re spinning our wheels,” said Commissioner Derek Farr. During Monday’s Randolph County Commission meeting, the group tabled action on what to do about solid waste service until it hears from an attorney about its questions. Commissioner Doyle Allen said contractors want a guaranteed number of customers, and…

Randolph County Chamber of Commerce is excited to host the Ninth Annual Summer on Main Street Festival and Concert on Saturday, June 3, in Roanoke. Opening ceremonies for the festival and the Alabama 200 Bi-centennial Kick-off will begin at 7:30 a.m. The festival will bring a variety of arts, crafts and food vendors, along with…

The Randolph County Economic Development Authority met Monday and dealt with much of the work of re-starting the authority after it had been shut down and re-organized. Valerie Gray, executive director of the Chambers County Development Authority, and Kimberly Carter, family support coordinator/business retention specialist, made some presentations. They are assisting RCEDA in its absence…

WEDOWEE–An inmate of Randolph County Jail and her husband were arrested last week after it was discovered he had mailed narcotics to her in the jail. On Tuesday of last week, Randolph County Narcotics Unit agent Larry Clark was contacted by Randolph County Jail matron Lori Green about someone having mailed narcotics to the jail.…

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated April 3, 2009, executed by Terill L. Drake, an unmarried person, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Southwest Mortgage Corp., which mortgage was recorded on April 8, 2009, in Mortgage Book…

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RODNEY LANIER ROBERTS, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to Arlene Roberts Staehly on the 15th day of May, 2017, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of the…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Louie Timothy Mitchell, Sr., a single man, and Chad A. Mitchell, a single man, on October 18, 2011, to First State Bank, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of…

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposals will be received from qualified General Contractors on second floor of the Administration Building in the President’s Conference Room at Southern Union State Community College, Wadley, Alabama, until 2:00 PM (local prevailing time), June 8, 2017; and thereafter opened publicly for construction of: Dormitory Chiller Replacement The work includes removal…

STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALVA JEAN SPRADLIN, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Alva Jean Spradlin, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 17th day of May, 2017, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…

PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing will be held to discuss the City of Roanoke, AL application and approve city match resolution for a 2017 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) through the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. The hearing will be held on June 12th at 6:00 P.M. Central Time, at Roanoke City Hall,…

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: J.D. STRICKLAND, DECEASED NOTICE OF HEARING FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT To: Tammy A. Weaver Amie M. Clayton, Muscadine, Alabama Melissa K. Clayton, Dallas, Georgia Ashlie Harmon, Carrollton, Georgia Shea Shaw, Carollton, Georgia Take notice that on this day a Petition for Final Settlement of the estate…

Kenneth ‘Joe’ Staples (ROANOKE) Funeral services for Kenneth “Joe” Staples, 85, of Roanoke, formerly of Detroit, were Thursday, May 25, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Scott Whaley officiating. Burial followed at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mr. Staples died Monday, May 22, at his home. A Harris County, Ga., native, Mr.…

(FIVE POINTS) Jane Ellen Bolt, 71, of Five Points died Friday May 19, 2017, at her residence. A memorial service will be in the chapel of Resthaven Memorial Gardens Friday, May 26, from 5 until 7 p.m. Mrs. Bolt was born Feb. 11, 1946, to the late Otis Arrington and the late Lois Noles Arrington.…

(ROANOKE) Wendy Ann Lucas Tiemersma, 65, of Roanoke died Wednesday, May 17, 2017. She was born in Miami on Nov. 11, 1951. Mrs. Tiemersma was the daughter of the late Zoly Lucas and the late Rose Barberi Lucas. Survivors include her husband, Donald Tiemersma of Roanoke; son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Michelle Reed of Pembroke…

(ROANOKE) Virginia Nell Collier Hammontree, 96, of Roanoke passed away Friday, May 19, 2017, at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Visitation will be held at Quattlebaum Funeral Home on Monday from 3-5 p.m. A Chambers County native, Mrs. Hammontree was born Feb. 28, 1921, the daughter of John Will and Lena C. Vinson Collier. She…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for James Walton “Jimmy” Lashley, 70, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at 11 a.m. from Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Willis Moten officiating. Burial will follow at Macedonia Baptist Church. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. on Monday. Mr. Lashley died Saturday, May 20,…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Ann Awbrey Glass, 91, of Roanoke will be Monday, May 22, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Roanoke Church of Christ with Bro. Gerald Romine officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the church from 1-2 p.m. on Monday. Mrs. Glass passed away Sunday, May…

(HEFLIN) Funeral services for Mary Jim Harrington Rice, 88, of Heflin will be Monday, May 22, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Harmony Congregational Methodist Church, Newell, with the Rev. Steve Dempsey officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Rice died Saturday, May 20, at Lineville Health and Rehab. A Randolph County native, Mrs.…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Glenda Morrison, 77, of Roanoke were Sunday, May 21, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bobby Burroughs officiating. Burial followed at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mrs. Morrison died Friday, May 19, at Regional Medical Center in Anniston. A lifelong resident of Randolph County, Mrs. Morrison was born…