IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMACASE NO. DV-2016.900006.00GIBBS SERVICE, INC. D/B/AQUATTLEBAUM FUNERAL HOME,PLAINTIFFVS.JAMIE LANCE, JAMES WATTS JR., JAMES LEONARD WATTS AND CRYSTAL SELFDEFENDANTSNOTICETO: JAMIE LANCENotice is hereby given to the above named individual that an action has been filed in the District Court of Randolph County, Alabama. You must file an Answer to…
STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced in the next session of the Legislature of Alabama commencing after the fourth consecutive week of publication of this notice, and application for its passage and enactment will be made: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE WHEREAS, default has been made in the terms of the Real Estate Mortgage, executed on the 5th day of July, 2011, by Roanoke Healthcare Authority as Mortgagor, in favor of Regions Bank, an Alabama Banking Corporation, as Mortgagee, as recorded in the Office of the Judge…
With the days winding down until the beginning of another school year and the appearance of all those big yellow buses on the roads again, a reminder is in order. Alabama law requires motorists in both lanes––oncoming and following––to come to a complete stop when a school bus stops and the STOP arm swings out.…
Remember when: The moon was in the seventh house And Jupiter aligned with Mars? Remember, tie dye and bell bottoms, and Long, beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen? Remember “Hell No, We Won’t Go?” “Give Peace a Chance?” “We Shall Overcome?” “I am a human being. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate?” How about…
As we have watched and participated in the presidential foray this entire year, an equally important event occurred. The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February is a very important event in American government. Scalia’s unexpected death at 79 could affect the ideological tilt of the Supreme Court and could essentially have…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Mohee White Bozeman, 87, of Roanoke will be Wednesday, July 27, 2016, at 4 p.m. at Lowell United Methodist Church with Pastor Shirley Meddick and Pastor Todd Henderson officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mrs. Bozeman will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to services…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Cecil Douglas “Doug” Brown, 71, of Roanoke were Sunday, July 24, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. CST at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Tim Steffey and Tim Teague officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Lanett. Mr. Brown died Friday, July 22, at Bethany House Hospice in Auburn. A Chambers…
(HOOVER) Helen Bechtold Cotney of Hoover died Thursday, July 21, 2016, at the age of 88. A memorial service will be Saturday, July 30, at 11 a.m. at Hope Presbyterian Church, Huntsville. Interment will be at Wadley Cemetery. She was born in Girard, Ill., lived in Huntsville for 65 years and was a charter member…
(JACKSONS GAP) The funeral for William Larry Freeman, 72, of Jacksons Gap was Saturday, July 23, 2016, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Dadeville. The Rev. Gary Wiggins officiated. Mr. Freeman passed away Wednesday, July 20, at Bethany House. He was born Feb. 20, 1944, in Selma to William Floyd “Jaybird” Freeman and…
(HATTIESBURG, Miss.) Graveside services for Samuel “Sambo” Joe Lewis, 60, of Hattiesburg, Miss., will be Saturday, July 23, 2016, at 1 p.m. at Randolph Memory Gardens with the Rev. Billy Joe Fetner officiating. Mr. Lewis died Monday, July 18, at his residence. A Randolph County native, Mr. Lewis was born Jan. 31, 1956, the son…
(WEDOWEE) Nobia Mims Coats, 79, of Wedowee died Monday, July 18, 2016, at Regional Medical Center in Anniston. A private family service will be held at a later date. A Ballground, Ga., native, Mrs. Coats was born June 4, 1937, the daughter of Payton and Jessie Mae Kennedy Haygood. She was Methodist by faith and…
(SARASOTA, Fla.) Maurine Hall Summersell Grayson died in Sarasota, Fla., on July 16, 2016. A graveside burial of her ashes will be held at Christ – St. Paul’s Church, Yonges Island, S.C., in October. She was born in 1922 in Woodland, Ala., daughter of John Wesley and Mattie Cordelia Hall. Mrs. Grayson was a member…
Southern Union State Community College nursing instructor Judy White has been selected as the 2016 Partner of the Year for Sight Savers America (SSA) KidCheck Plus program. White was chosen for this award based on her and her students’ work with the program. Southern Union and Kid Check Plus have a long-standing partnership to offer…
There’s no denying that – in the vast majority – a group of homegrown men are in charge of the homegrown athletes that suit up for football on Friday nights in Randolph County. It’s not so much of a coaching tree as it is a coaching kudzu vine. It has grown and split and crossed…
The Good Dinosaur back-to-school movie is Friday, July 29, at 8 p.m. at Main Street Theatre in Roanoke. Join the Roanoke Rotary Club for this back-to-school movie event. Bring your chairs or blanket, along with a donation of school supplies. Collected school supplies will be donated to assist students and schools with their back-to-school needs.…
Wadley guard Trent Belcher rode a late wave of 21st century recruiting to a basketball scholarship with Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon, Ga. Belcher signed with the school at a ceremony in the Wadley gym last Thursday, making him the first boys player in the county to earn a basketball scholarship since Handley’s Trae Dunson…
Wes Hardin is creating a large mural on the side of the downtown Roanoke building occupied by David Denton’s CPA office. Commissioned by cattleman and business owner Earl Manning, the mural will feature well-known residents of this area. Hardin is well-known in his field, painting throughout the Southeastern U.S. He has gone to Danville, Va.,…
Those who struggled and fought against the merger of Southern Union State Community College with Chattahoochee Valley Community College and Central Alabama Community College did not break into cheers when it was announced the merger was being “paused” last Thursday afternoon. The merger is being postponed indefinitely. One of the warriors, adjunct professor Carol Knight,…
SWAGG–Special agents with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) on Wednesday, July 13, arrested Brenda Marie Lee, 73, of Wedowee and charged her with five counts of attempted murder and one count of hindering prosecution. Mrs. Lee remained with her late husband, Eli Lee, on Saturday, July 9, when he…