In a Tuesday morning meeting the Roanoke Board of Education said goodbye to two retiring teachers, heard reports of good things going on in the system and dealt with two issues: upgrading the wireless network at Handley Middle School and bidding the new weight room addition at Handley High School.A long list of personnel recommendations…
Wadley’s Kamaury Avery will get one last hurrah on the football field before beginning his college career at Savannah State next fall. Avery was selected as a linebacker for the North team at this year’s Alabama North-South All Star game in Montgomery. The game features teams comprised of 2016 graduated seniors from schools throughout the…
This year’s Randolph County Bike Hike broke records when it brought in $110,153. Warm-Up The Warm-Up held on May 13 at WELR raised $52,062. Top business money raiser was Wedowee Hospital, whose employees walking from Wedowee Hospital to WELR raised $2,055. The top individual fund-raisers were Richard Fetner, Billy Lane, April Anthony, Pam Taylor and…
On Monday evening, Roanoke Police were dispatched to a two-vehicle car accident on Old LaFayette Highway. Officers arrived to find a small utility trailer on the roadside with minimal damage, a four-door car with major damage and a truck with no damage. Albert Lee Holloway, 63, of Wedowee said he was traveling northbound in his…
A man went into Wedowee Marine upset because he couldn’t get his boat to run properly. He asked Wedowee Marine owner Randy Morris if he knew of any charities that would accept the boat. Morris suggested Randolph County Animal Shelter. Morris then got in touch with the shelter and explained the situation. He said he…
The Randolph Leader will be open on Memorial Day and the deadline will be as usual, Monday at 5 p.m. Also garbage customers of Randolph County Solid Waste and Advanced Disposal (in Roanoke) will have their usual garbage routes that day.
It’s time to wrap up another school year, celebrate high school and college graduations and kick off the summer with Memorial Day Weekend. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) reminds everyone to play it safe along Alabama roadways and waterways this Memorial Day Weekend. The official holiday travel period runs from 6 a.m. Friday, May…
You can safely and freely dispose of old electronic devices during the Summer on Main Street Electronics Recycling event June 4. Sponsored by the Tallapoosa Basin Clean Water Partnership, the event will last from 8 a.m. to noon at the corner of White and Trammell streets, a block north of Main Street in downtown Roanoke.…
May is National Foster Care Month. It is a time to uplift our foster children who are in foster care through no fault of their own. It is also a time to honor the dedicated men and women who readily accept and nurture the children in our state’s foster care system. In Alabama, there are…
Game one could have defined the state tournament for Handley’s softball team last Wednesday. More specifically, the first inning of game one. A Hollywood screenwriter wouldn’t put Handley’s first inning of the tournament on film for fear it would overstep a viewer’s realistic suspension of disbelief. That’s how bad it was. Each of the first…
It seems that a few years back we were regularly asked, “Why don’t you ever print any good news? You only print the bad stuff.” Well, that was never true, but it is true that we had more “bad’ things going on at particular times in the past. To keep Randolph County informed, we do…
For lo the winter is past The rain is over and gone The flowers appear on the earth The time of the singing of birds is come And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Song of Solomon, 2: 11-12 (KJV) I love the King James Version of the Bible. Written, a good Christian woman once…
A few weeks ago former Alabama Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper Sr. died at his home in Montgomery at age 91. He was the epitome of the southern gentleman. He was also one of the founding fathers of the modern Republican Party in Alabama. Hooper Sr. was a GOP leader long before it was cool…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: MARY JOY HARRIS, DECEASED NOTICE OF HEARING TO PROBATE WILL TO: Anthony Drew Harris 1000 Todd Drive Covington, GA 30014 Dawn Harris Atha 945 Todd Drive Covington, GA 30014 Rebecca Dyer Harris 610 Fairfield Road Covington, GA 30014 Trudy Rebecca Harris 192 Montag Circle, NE…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: WINIFRED MCCARD, DECEASED NOTICE OF HEARING TO PROBATE WILL TO: Linda Smith Franklin, GA 30217 Pamela Sprouse Dunn, NC 28334 Gregory McCard Kingsport, TN 37663 ADDRESSES UNKNOWN FOR THE FOLLOWING: James R. McCard B.J. McCard Mary McCard Barry McCard Joseph McCard Daphne McCard Dakota McCard…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLIE T. MADDEN, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Charlie T. Madden, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 17th day of May, 2016, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF WALTON COUNTY, GEORGIA IN THE INTEREST OF: K.J.E.G. RACE/SEX: W/M, AGE: 14, DOB: 5/7/2001, CASE#: 147-16J-0354 CHILD UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE NOTICE OF SUMMONS & EFFECT OF TERMINATION JUDGMENT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, BRIAN GOSS AND ANY OTHER PERSONS HAVING AN INTEREST IN SAID MINOR CHILD BORN TO…
(CARROLLTON, Ga.) Barbara Ann Barnes, 78, of Carrollton died Sunday, May 22, 2016, at Tanner Medical Center. The funeral will be Tuesday, May 24, at 2 p.m. EDT at Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel with the Rev. Mike Mallory officiating. Interment will follow in Carrollton City Cemetery She was born Dec. 20, 1937, in Detroit…
(WEDOWEE) Mrs. Ervis McKissic, 88, of Wedowee died Thursday, May 19, 2016, at her residence._ The funeral will be Wednesday, May 25, at 1 p.m. at Pine Flat Primitive Baptist Church in Wedowee with the Rev. Thomas Knight officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Mrs. McKissic is survived by her children, J.C. McKissic…
(VILLA RICA, Ga.) Kathleen Kalba, 67, of Villa Rica, Ga., died Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at her residence. Kathleen was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 5, 1949, the daughter of the late Joseph Young and Elizabeth Colgan Willard. Through the years she worked as a sales associate and waitress. Kathleen was a Christian. Survivors…