(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Glover Childs, 67, died Monday, April 25, 2016, at UAB Medical Center, Birmingham.The celebration of life service will be Friday, April 29, at 1 p.m. CDT at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Roanoke (Welch). The Revs. Reuben Simpson and James Dunbar will officiate. Burial will follow at Friendship Baptist Church, Roanoke (Bacon Level).Mr. Childs…
(WOODLAND) Funeral services for Eunice Catherine Hester Stewart, 87, of Woodland will be Thursday, April 28, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Bro. Brad Prince and Bro. Ricky Murphy officiating. Burial will follow at Oak Grove Church of Christ Cemetery. Mrs. Stewart passed away Tuesday, April 26, at her home. A lifelong…
(FIVE POINTS) Louise Steele, 78, of Five Points died Tuesday, April 26, 2016, at Emory Midtown Hospital in Atlanta. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 28, in the chapel of Striffler-Hamby Mortuary in LaGrange, Ga., with the Revs. Tommy McLeroy and Lamar Truitt officiating. Burial will follow in Restlawn Memory Gardens.…
(LINEVILLE) The funeral service for Sandy Cook, 59, of Lineville will be Thursday, April 28, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home in Lineville with the Rev. Craig McClure officiating. A private interment will follow in Christiana Baptist Church Cemetery. Ms. Cook died Sunday, April 24, at her home. Born in Jacksonville, Fla., to…
Rhonda Joy Finley was born Rhonda Joy Taylor in Roanoke on April 26, 1964, and went to be with her Lord and Savior and her husband, Dennis, on April 24, 2016. She is survived by the children she so adamantly loved and adored, Cassandra Finley and Adam Finley; her parents, John Sanders and Joyce Adcock…
Dennis Richard Finley was born in Shawmut on Jan. 20, 1958. Dennis went to be with his Lord and Savior and to wait to welcome his beloved wife, Rhonda, on April 22, 2016. Dennis is survived by the children he loved so much, Cassandra Finley and Adam Finley; his parents, Richard Finley and Shirley Finley;…
Long before he was caught in an affair with his top aide, Gov. Robert Bentley had demonstrated poor decision-making. Governing a high-poverty state with poor health outcomes, rural hospitals closing, and not enough revenue to fund basic state services, it made little sense to turn down the billions in federal funds that would have come…
(This is the second in a series of columns that trace the history of efforts to regulate the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in Alabama. What follows is an updated and expanded version of an article by the author that first appeared in The Anniston Star back in 2008.) The story resumes. Thus…
As the budget hearings began for the 2016 Legislative Session in January the largest Powerball lottery sweepstakes in American history was playing out. It was one of the biggest news stories of the year, thus far. Legislators were hearing the same song second verse that they heard last year. The General Fund is about $200…
If you have expired or unwanted medications lying around the house, you can safely dispose of them at the Drug Take Back event on Saturday, April 30, at Randolph County Sheriff’s Office and the Roanoke Police Department. This is a “no questions asked” drop-off. Officers will accept prescription and over-the-counter medications from 10 a.m. until…
The third year of the Hands of Hope event in downtown Wadley is coming up Saturday. Fortunately Rick Whelan had asked his daughter, Kim, to head it up this year. Fortunately, because April 10th as Rick was herding his SimAngus cows his horse reared up and fell backwards on him, breaking five vertebrae in his…
Randolph County Farmers Market will open for the 2016 growing season on Wednesday April 27. The first Saturday opening will be on May 7. The market will then be open on Wednesdays from 7 a.m. until noon and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. throughout the summer. It will be located on U.S.…
Friday night’s performance of Sing, Sing, Sing by the Southern Union Show Choir was brought to the attention of Nashville producer Wess Walker (Florida Georgia Line, Tony Goulas, Tom Perkins) by friend and client Callie Knight. Knight has been a part of the group for the past three years, beginning with dual enrollment her senior…
LINEVILLE–A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the northern coast of Ecuador on April 16. Servants in Faith and Technology (SIFAT), a nonprofit founded and operating in Randolph County, has been working in Ecuador for 20 years. Although the SIFAT project sites in Quito were not damaged, several of our SIFAT partners with whom we work in Ecuador…
Randolph County Board of Education has been recommended for system accreditation by the external review team for AdvancED Accreditation Commission, the national commission that confers accreditation. The external review team’s report is submitted for review to the national AdvancED Accreditation Commission, and the commission will send a letter confirming accreditation status. This means the district…
The RCHS Tigers won their fourth straight first-round playoff series with a two-game sweep of Fayetteville Saturday in Wedowee. RCHS won game one 6-0, then rallied for six runs in the top of the seventh in game two to turn a 2-1 deficit into 7-2 victory. Catcher Eric Henderson had a huge day at the…
OPELIKA–A two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Magnolia Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard in Opelika at approximately 7:20 p.m. Friday has left two people dead and three injured. 58-year-old Dennis Richard Finley of Auburn was killed when the car he was a passenger in was hit broadside. Lee County Coroner Bill Harris pronounced Finley…
Mayor Mike Fisher asked everyone to keep the family of Robbie Robertson in their prayers, and he remarked on the number of deaths experienced lately, including Joy Harris and Bill Ford and others. Robertson’s daughter Margaret Calhoun is the director of the library. The mayor read a letter from city attorney John Tinney on the…
WEDOWEE–Randolph County Board of Education approved several personnel items at its meeting on Wednesday evening of last week. The board accepted the resignations due to retirement of: Elizabeth Denney, teacher at Rock Mills Junior High School; Suellyn Coker, teacher at Rock Mills; Cheryl Weathington, teacher at Woodland High School; Janice Slaughter, special education teacher at…
Shanetta Catique Winston, 41, of 333 Wilkie Clark Dr., Roanoke, was arrested on Tuesday night of last week and charged with aggravated assault. Winston is accused of shooting her husband, Terrance Terrell Reese, 39, in the right hand and side/rib area. The shooting took place on the street outside their home. Reese was treated for…