(FAIR GROVE, Mo.) Thelma Wright Hodges, 61, of Fair Grove, Mo., passed from this life on Thursday, May 12, 2016, in Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Mo.She was born one of twelve children on Sept. 29, 1954, in Roanoke to Robert Lee and Audrey Mae Ussery Wright. Thelma spent 24 years working in the textile…
(HEFLIN) Freddie Sue Brooks, 73, died Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at Cleburne County Nursing Home. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 20, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ralph Cook officiating. Burial will follow in Cleburne Memorial Garden. Mrs. Brooks was a native of Randolph County and a resident…
(VALLEY) C.L. Stephens, 84, of Valley died Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at EAMC-Lanier in Valley. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Wes Kinsey officiating. A Roanoke native, Mr. Stephens was born June 28, 1931, the son of William Nay and Flossie…
(OPELIKA) Alvin C. Mulkey, 84, of Opelika, formerly of Valley, died Monday, May 16, 2016, at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. The funeral will be Thursday, May 19, at 11 a.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley. Interment will follow in Langdale Cemetery. Mr. Mulkey was born April 1, 1932, in…
(ALABASTER) The funeral service for “Babs” Jones Carpenter, 61 of Alabaster, formerly of Wadley, will be Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Home in Lineville with the Revs. Zenus Windsor and Alan Hurst officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Olive Baptist Church (South) Cemetery. Mrs. Carpenter died Saturday, May 14, in…
Rock Mills Junior High School’s pre-K program is among 21 statewide to receive a $10,000 grant from the Alabama Power Foundation. The grants are part of the foundation’s Brighter Minds education initiative. The $10,000 grants will enable these pre-K programs to improve their learning environments. “Early-childhood education lays the foundation for lifelong learning and success,”…
Mullet toss teams as they placed: 1. M.L. Awbrey – Feedstore Fish Flingers with 375 feet (Hudson Burns threw the furthest with 106 feet.) 2. Handley High – Tigers with 351.5 feet 3. Community Life Church – Brotherhood Bait Casters wit 324 feet 4. Randolph County High School – Fish Lickers with 314 feet 5.…
On May 11 the Crepe Myrtle Garden Club planted a Japanese Red Maple tree at Annie L. Awbrey Public Library as a memoriam to Joy Harris. Participating in the planting were Bonnie Knight, Janelle Whaley, Faye McCord, Brenda Jones, Phyllis Lane, Linda Barrow, Brenda Botsford, Vicki Nixon and Delores Burgess. Other club members are Sherry…
The 41st Annual Randolph County Learning Center Bike Hike is Saturday at 8 a.m. Registration is from 7 to 7:50 a.m. The one-mile route begins at Roanoke Recreation Center on West Point Street and goes to Handley High School and back to the rec center. You may walk, ride or stroll in this casual route…
The Lake Wedowee Property Owners Association will hold its FREE annual Kids Fishing Day event on Thursday, May 19, at Rice Pavilion on Lake Wedowee. The event will begin at 3 p.m. and continue until 6 p.m. Kids through 15 years old who live in Randolph and Clay counties and the children of LWPOA members…
WEDOWEE–Two young men involved in a home invasion at the Kirk Street residence of Hannah Heard in October of 2014 pleaded guilty to multiple charges last week in front of Randolph County Circuit Court Judge Ray Martin. Co-defendants Samej Marques Nunn, 21, of 335 Pine Valley Drive, Roanoke, and Travius “Trae” Dewayne Dunson, 19, of…
The Summer on Main Festival and Street Market in Roanoke will be a little different this year. It will begin at 6:30 a.m. and run to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 The free concert with Soul Tymes Nine will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Main Street Theatre. People are reminded…
Roanoke Police Department and other Alabama law enforcement agencies are searching for this individual who is wanted in connection to shoplifting thefts at Walmart stores from Roanoke to Montgomery and many points in between. He has a female driver who assists in his getaway. If you have any information about this person or this incident,…
WEDOWEE–A Randolph County jury last Wednesday found Henry Clay Allen, 28, of Roanoke not guilty of burglary and robbery of an elderly man. On Dec. 12, 2014 deputies arrested Allen, then 26, of 4032 Louina Road., and charged him with first-degree burglary and first-degree robbery. The jury took about 30 minutes to find him not…
AUBURN – Summer adventures are underway for Auburn University’s 2016 Living Democracy students, who will live and work in diverse Alabama communities for the next 10 weeks. Four students, Weston Sims, Hamilton Wasnick, Madison Chamblee and Miranda Whitten, will create civic projects working with community partners in Collinsville, Elba, Linden and Roanoke. Two students, Wasnick…
Chancellor Mark Heinrich announced last week that the Alabama Community College System will delay plans to consolidate seven colleges into two until at least the middle of next year. Southern Union State Community College, of course, will be one of the seven schools that will be gobbled up into one of the systems in what…
I have attended a lot of graduations–my share and somebody else’s. Kindergarten (three times), elementary school (three times), high school (four or five times), college (Lord knows how many). They all had a lot of things in common. Proud graduates. Proud families of graduates. Longwinded speakers. Except when former state senator Doug Ghee or yours…
Last week we talked about how difficult it is to win passage of a legislative act. It does not matter if the proposed legislation is for apple pie and motherhood. If for nothing else, the bill has to go before both House and Senate committees, win approval, and not get an amendment put on it.…
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH Default having been made in the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jerry K. Gilliland A/K/A Jerry Keith Gilliland Husband And Shelly A. Gilliland A/K/A Shelly Ann Gilliland Wife to U.S. Bank N.A. dated August 31, 2007; said mortgage being recorded in…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CORA IRENE HEARD, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Cora Irene Heard, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 10th day of May, 2016, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…