(ROANOKE) Memorial services for Arthur Ivinson Jones, 68, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at 1 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with Ministers Jeffery Rosser and Charlie Rowland officiating.Mr. Jones died Friday, March 4, at Gentiva Hospice in Columbus, Ga.A Kingston, Jamaica, native, Mr. Jones was born Aug. 23, 1947, the son of…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Mary Jane Cofield Embry, 93, of LaGrange, Ga., died March 3, 2016, at West Georgia Health. The funeral will be Saturday, March 5, at 3 p.m. at Higgins LaGrange Chapel with the Rev. Frank Sledge officiating. Cryptside services will follow at Shadowlawn Cemetery Mausoleum. Mrs. Embry was born Aug. 9, 1922 in Wedowee…
SYLACAUGA–A Wadley man was captured after he left work release assignment in Sylacauga on Wednesday morning. According to the Department of Corrections, Jeremy James McCormick, 39, was an inmate at Childersburg Work Release Center. He is serving a sentence of 30 years for manufacture of a controlled substance. After leaving Sylacauga, McCormick had been at…
(FRANKLIN, Ga.) Charlie Kenneth Pike, 78, of Franklin, Ga., died peacefully Thursday, March 3, 2016, at his home. The funeral will be Tuesday, March 8, at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Striffler-Hamby Mortuary with Pastor Scott Hannar officiating. Burial will follow in Franklin City Cemetery. Mr. Pike was born Oct. 29, 1937, in Heard…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Mark Earl Goodson, 53, of Wedowee will be Friday, March 4, 2016, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Wedowee. Mr. Goodson died Wednesday, March 2, at his residence. A Newnan, Ga., native, Mr. Goodson was born in Landstuhl, Germany, on July 22, 1962, the son of James Nelson and…
(HEFLIN) Katharina Thomas, 76, died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 at her residence. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel in Heflin with the Rev. Jeff Freeman officiating. Mrs. Thomas was a native of Germany and came to the United States in 1957. Katharina had been a…
The comeback magic ran out for the Handley Tigers on Thursday as they lost to Childersburg 53-47 in the regional finals, ending the Handley season. Childersburg advanced to the state final four with the win. The Tigers had reached the regional finals after posting two improbable comeback wins in their last three games, including an…
RCHS suffered its first setback of the season Monday in a 12-6 loss to Central of Clay County in Wedowee. RCHS was less than sharp defensively as they committed six errors and several other miscues that made life easier on the Clay Central offense. The pitching was not sharp either as the trio of Danny…
WEDOWEE–Randolph County Commission received a $50,000 grant from the Coosa Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council. The money was used to purchase crushed aggregate, which was used to upgrade dirt roads that are heavily traveled and part of the school bus routes. Funding for this project was made possible through the efforts of state Sen.…
No one was injured in a log truck accident on Monday morning at the intersection of U.S. 431 and Airport Road in Roanoke. According to Roanoke Police Department, the truck, owned by Slay Forest Enterprises of LaFayette, came to rest sitting half in the air with the log trailer in the drainage ditch and logs…
The Randolph County Chapter of the Alabama Democracy Conference 5th annual Black History Parade was Saturday. There were more entries than usual, and some entrants worked to have outstanding floats. The judged float winners are: 1st Place- First Baptist Missionary Baptist Church-replica of church. 2nd Place- Rock Mills Missionary Baptist Church-Edmund Pettus Bridge. 3rd Place-…
Town hall meetings on the proposed consolidation of Southern Union State Community College (SUSCC) with two other colleges have been announced. Wadley’s will be Wednesday, March 2, at 5:30 p.m. in Brazeal Auditorium. Dr. Susan Burrow, who was in Wadley Monday meeting with people, will serve as president for the regional community college, which will…
The rain came down and the wind blew ferociously and a huge old oak tree on Chestnut Street came down Wednesday afternoon. No one seems to know how old it is. Inside the neat little bungalow were Lily Harvel, 3, and her aunt, Jo Ann Hamlin. Hamlin was in the kitchen cleaning and Lily was…
People really turned out last week for the planting of a white dogwood to remember their colleague, friend and loved one, Bill Ford. Pam Ford, to whom he would have been married for 45 years on March 20, was very appreciative of the remembrance and those who turned out to remember her late husband. “It…
WEDOWEE–The presidential SEC Primary in Randolph County saw 41 percent of the 15,33 registered voters go to the polls for a total of 6,495 voting. Democrats were dwarfed by the Republican voting, 1,884 Democrats to 4,606 Republicans, which some attributed to citizens wanting to vote for Donald Trump. As expected Donald Trump overwhelmingly carried the…
The agony of not knowing was replaced with the grief of knowing when the body of a missing Carrollton, Ga., man was found in the Tallapoosa River in Randolph County on Sunday morning. According to Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, the body of Lamar Allen Putnam, 79, was spotted by a family of kayakers from Heflin…
Randolph County Sheriff’s Office continues to search for a 16-year-old who ran away from her Rock Stand area home on Sunday morning. Danielle Morris, a student at Handley High School, has no vehicle and no cell phone. If you have any information about Danielle’s whereabouts, please call RCSO at (256) 357-4545.
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…
The Handley Tigers softball team is off to an 8-4 start to the season after a strong showing in the 24-team Wetumpka tournament in Dothan on Friday and Saturday. Handley won five of its six games and advanced to the tournament semifinals before losing to eventual tournament champion Rehobeth. The tournament was filled with strong…
WEDOWEE–“People have no idea what’s gone into this already,” said Randolph County HealthCare Authority (RCHCA) Chairman Bill Caypless. Caypless was addressing the RCHCA meeting about the progress of the new hospital on Thursday evening of last week in the Wedowee Hospital cafeteria. He said right now Randolph County HealthCare Authority has two major expenses: the…