(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for retired U.S. Navy Capt. Don C. East, 77 of Lineville will be Tuesday, March 15, at 11 a.m. at Lineville Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Colquett officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow in Rock Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.Capt. East died Wednesday, March 9, at the UAB Medical Center…
(AKRON, Ohio) Thomas Vernon Jones, 91, of Akron, Ohio, died Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Services will be Monday, March 14, at 1:30 p.m. at Stewart and Calhoun Funeral Home, Akron, Ohio, with the Rev, Douglas Price eulogizing. Interment will be in Rose Hill Burial Park. Mr. Jones was born Jan. 11, 1925, to Oscar and…
(ROANOKE) Mary Clyde Rice Ussery, 90, of Roanoke passed Wednesday, March 9, 2016. The funeral to celebrate her life journey will be Saturday, March 12, at Whites Chapel Methodist Church with services beginning at 2 p.m. and the Rev. Stoney Halsey, Rev. Mike Nobbley and Rodney Heard officiating. Interment will follow at Whites Chapel Methodist…
(HEFLIN) Tracey Ann Daniel, 45, died Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at Regional Medical Center in Anniston. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 11, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Sonny Martin and Philip Morris officiating. Burial will follow in Heflin Memorial Garden. Mrs. Daniel was a native of Clay…
Handley and Woodland won their opening round games in the county softball tournament Monday in Woodland, while RCHS kept itself alive in the tournament with an elimination win in the Monday nightcap. Wadley drew the short straw in the tournament as the Bulldogs lost their first two games Monday and were eliminated. The tournament concluded…
WADLEY–Several hundred turned out last week to hear Dr. Susan Burrow talk about the consolidation of Southern Union State Community College with Central Alabama Community College and Chattahoochee Valley Community College and what it will mean to SUSCC. Former and present students and faculty, townspeople, and those with ties to the college nestled on the…
State Rep. Bob Fincher has begun a petition campaign to bring Alabama TV stations coverage to Randolph County. These petitions will support the satellite market modification request that will be submitted by the Randolph County Commission to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). In a news release dated Feb. 25, the FCC announced it is accepting…
Whether or not to allow the legal sale of alcoholic beverages was on Tuesday’s ballot in Ashland and Lineville, and both cities voted in favor of it. With that vote Alabama now has no county without some part of it allowing alcohol sales. In Clay County, as is the case with several other counties, alcohol…
WEDOWEE–The Randolph County Grand Jury reported Friday, Feb. 19, returning 199 true bills. Assistant District Attorney Amy Newsome said there were a lot of thefts, particularly all-terrain vehicles, and a lot of drug crimes. The 199 was slightly less than usual. One of the more serious assaults was of a man struck in the head…
A Call Away Bail Bonding Officers responded to a call at the Key West Inn in reference to a disturbance where a female and a young juvenile were outside a hotel room banging on the door and yelling. Kelli Nicole Beck, 28, of 168 County Rd. 703, Roanoke, told the officer she and her boyfriend…
A Call Away Bail Bonding A Roanoke man was arrested on March 2 and charged with second-degree assault. Danny James Boyd, 40, of 2510 Louina Rd., was taken into custody on March 2 after allegedly striking Kenneth Moore, 33, of Roanoke in the back of the head and in the left knee with a liquor…
You might not know her name but you might remember many of the parts she has played through the years, such as Aunt Etta Kibbey “In the Heat of the Night” from 1988 to 1994. Dr. Tonea Stewart spoke to Handley High students during Black History Month betraying her dramatic background as she told her…
Two people were injured on Saturday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident in Roanoke. According to Roanoke Police reports, Willie Wade Stephens, 78, of Five Points was traveling south on U.S 431 in his 1995 GMC C1500 when Marie Pinkard, 80, of Roanoke pulled out from Lane’s Chapel Road in her 1998 Chevrolet Lumina. Pinkard said…
The Handley High Theatre class will present the musical Hairspray Jr. Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. Admission is $5. The story is as follows: When Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teen, auditions for a spot on a popular teen dance show, she beats out the spiteful Amber von Tussle, winning over…
For the Handley Tigers, basketball’s loss became baseball’s gain. When the Handley basketball team’s season ended in the regional finals in Montgomery last week, that freed up two key outfielders to join the baseball team. And for a first-year head coach whose team is replacing four infielders and was off to a 2-4 start, those…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Gerald L. Gore, Sr. and spouse, Cheryl Diane Gore, on January 20, 2005, to First State Bank, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage…
Final Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed Activity in a 100-Year Floodplain or Wetland To: All interested Agencies, Groups, and Individuals This is to give notice that the Randolph County Commission has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order 11988 and/or 11990, in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C…
NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS March 9, 2016 Randolph County Commission 12 East Broad Street Wedowee, AL 36278 TO ALL INTERESTED AGENCIES, GROUPS AND PERSONS: These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by the Randolph County…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Johnnie B. Bell, unmarried, originally in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A, on the 19th day of May, 2005, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: JERRY E. WHALEY JR., DECEASED ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Jerry E. Whaley Jr., deceased, having been granted to Nannie Sue Parmer on the 22nd day of Feb., 2016, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County,…