Despite recent precipitation, drought conditions continue to affect Alabama Power lakes.Streams that feed Alabama Power reservoirs have not recovered from the severe drought conditions of last year, even though the state has seen wetter conditions over the past several weeks. A number of those streams are approaching or have reached record low levels for this…

MONTGOMERY–State Senator Gerald Dial (R-Lineville) announced a $9,000 grant has been awarded to the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office by the Alabama Department of Economic & Community Affairs (ADECA). The grant will fund the purchase and training of a dog for K-9 patrol. The dog and its handling officer will be trained in narcotics detection and…

Gov. Robert Bentley is planning to call a special session of the legislature to again take up the issue of prison reform, specifically building several new prisons to replace the outdated, understaffed and overcrowded patchwork of facilities we have now. There can be little doubt that something needs to be done–and quickly. Alabama is now…

On Saturday, Jan. 14, the Handley Middle School Robotics Teams competed at the Oxford Middle School VEX IQ State Qualifier. All of the teams performed well with the sixth- and eighth-grade teams advancing to the finals. In the end, the eighth-grade team won the event. The eighth-grade team brought home two of the six awards…

Next time you watch a University of Alabama football game, pay particular attention when the Goodyear Blimp, which always seems to be there, flies over Bryant-Denny Stadium. When it does you will notice that hard against the imposing structure named for two of the university’s legends is a cemetery–Evergreen Cemetery–city owned and maintained. Years ago,…

Hillary Clinton’s failure to break the proverbial glass ceiling in American politics came up a little short. More than 100 men have been nominated for president by the nation’s political parties over the past 220 years. She was the first female to be the nominee of one of the two major parties. After Hillary became…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed on May 19, 2005 by Johnnie B. Bell, unmarried, originally in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and recorded in Mortgage Book 481 at Page 286 on May 31, 2005, and modified in and corrected by…

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…

Alabama Department of Environmental Management 1400 Coliseum Boulevard Post Office Box 301463 Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1463 PUBLIC NOTICE – 212 The Department of Environmental Management is proposing to issue the General Underground Injection Control (UIC) Permit Number ALIG020000 authorizing shallow injection of treated wash down water from meat and seafood processors discharging 1000 gallons per day…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by JAMES FREDDY POPE, JR., a single person, to SMALL TOWN BANK on November 25, 2006, said Mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama, in Book 507, Page 687,…

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: HOWARD L. FENNIE SR., DECEASED NOTICE OF HEARING TO: HOWARD L. FENNIE JR. TYRONE FENNIE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: 5763 Pecan Grove, Ellenwood, Georgia 30294 You are hereby notified that on this day came Jean Zachery and filed in this Court a petition to be appointed…

INVITATION TO BID The City of Roanoke will be accepting sealed bids for the grounds maintenance (mowing and trimming) of Cedarwood and Booker Hill cemeteries in Roanoke. The Mowing season for 2017 will run from March 15, 2017 through October 15, 2017. All bids must be received at City Hall by 2:00 p.m. on February…

STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE DEFAULT having been made in the terms of that certain mortgage executed by Nickie T. Nunn and Keiver Nunn to Habitat for Humanity, Troup County, Inc., which said mortgage is dated April 30, 2010, and recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) On Jan. 17, 2017, Edyth Louise Ware Hardman went home to be with her Lord and Savior and to be reunited with her husband, Wilbur D. Hardman, who joined the Lord in April 2014. Mrs. Hardman was the daughter of Edward Ware and Lucy Yarbrough Ware of Wedowee. She was preceded in death…

(WADLEY) Funeral services for Jerry B. Craven, 67, of Wadley will be Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Macedonia Baptist Church with the Rev. Donald Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday. Mr. Craven will lie in…

(LANETT) Dean “Miss Dee” Parrish Phipps, 87, of Lanett died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The funeral will be Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 2 p.m. EST at Westside Baptist Church in Lanett, where she was a charter member, with interment following in Oakwood Cemetery. Her family will receive friends at the church Wednesday from noon until…

(CHILDERSBURG) Maggie Presley Briskey, 82, of Childersburg, formerly of Lanett, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at Coosa Valley Medical Center, Sylacauga. The funeral will be at Friendship Baptist Church No. 1, LaFayette, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Prezell Lane officiating. Burial will follow at Handy Cemetery. The remains will lie…

(POMPANO BEACH, Fla.) Stuart M. Hansen Jr., 65, died Nov. 11, 2016, after suffering a cardiac arrest. A memorial service with military honors will be held Feb. 11 at 10 a.m. at Calvary Chapel, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Stuart will be interred in the South Florida National Cemetery in Lake Worth, Fla. Mr. Hansen was a…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for the Rev. Eugene H. Moore, 71, of Roanoke, formerly of Whitesburg, Ga., will be Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at 1 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Michael Moore and the Revs. Mark Moore and Bill Calhoun officiating. Burial will follow at Highway Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at…