(ANNISTON) Wilma Deane Johnson Albright, 87, died at home on July 1, 2015, after an extended illness.Services were at K. L. Brown Memory Chapel in Golden Springs on July 3, at 2 p.m. Interment followed at Smyrna Baptist Church in Newell.Mrs. Albright was a native of Woodland but had been a resident of Anniston since…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Frances Alliece Spruill Webb, 100, of LaGrange, Ga., died June 30, 2015, at Hospice LaGrange. The funeral will be Friday, July 3, at 11 a.m. EDT at Higgins LaGrange Chapel with the Rev. Dwayne Perdue officiating. Interment will follow at Meadoway Gardens. Mrs. Webb was born Jan. 27, 1915, in Randolph County, Ala.,…
(WOODLAND) Funeral services for James Colton “Coty” Strange, 25, of Woodland will be Friday, July 3, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Phillip Waites, Chris Mitchell and Roger Hammett officiating. Burial will follow at Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Wedowee. Mr. Strange died Wednesday, July 1. A Randolph County native, Mr.…
Two seasons ago the Wadley boys basketball team went winless. 18 games. 18 losses. Last year the team unveiled one of the county’s most promising overall athletes as freshman Quae Drake burst onto the scene and propelled the team to a third place finish in a five-team area. Drake averaged 18.4 points and 8.4 rebounds…
HEFLIN–After allegedly shooting at a black bear seen in Heflin on June 16, a local man has been charged with breaking the state’s bear protection laws. While classified as a game animal in Alabama, there is no established black bear hunting season in the state. Black bears are also protected by state law due to…
The pretty little church on West Point Street near the Roanoke Justice Center has had several lives. Another one is planned for it by Rick Emory once he finishes his course of study with Apostle Betty Brady and finishes his work on the church, which he will pastor. Rector Al Perkins was the pastor when…
Dr. Lewis E. Sellers will be coming to Roanoke every other Wednesday to serve patients in Dr. Russell Peterson’s office. Many people will remember his grandfather, Dr. Gerson Wallace Bonner, and his grandmother, Mary Lee Bonner. Sellers has fond memories of coming to visit his grandparents in their rock house near Rock Mills. At one…
WEDOWEE–Randolph County HealthCare Authority (RCHCA) approved several large expenditures during its meeting on Thursday evening of last week. Chairman Bill Caypless broke bad news to the authority–the election will cost nearly twice what they had planned. He was first told that the cost of an election would be $25,000; however, the probate judge had forgotten…
Although Randolph County deputies will continue to look and ask questions, Sheriff David Cofield said they feel like Audel Cabrera Penaloza, the fugitive sought last week in northern Randolph County by law enforcement, has left the area. Penaloza, 27, is wanted on three counts of kidnapping in Georgia and is also a person of interest…
WOODLAND–Two juveniles were arrested and charged in connection with a break-in at Woodland High School. Woodland principal Jeff Thompson reported that on June 20, a teacher informed him that she discovered items dumped out into the floor of her classroom. Inspection of other parts of the school revealed that someone had tried to burn a…
A fifth-wheel camper stolen from 700 Williams St. Monday night was recovered on Tuesday by Roanoke Police. According to investigator James Bailey, Roy Lone Whaley reported the theft of the camper, which contained camping, hunting and fishing supplies. Officers followed the trail made because some part of the camper was scraping the roadway and found…
WEDOWEE–A Wedowee man is recovering after being hurt on Wednesday morning of last week while preparing to cut down a large tree. According to reports, Anthony Higgins, 41, fell from the tree while working on West Broad Street. While making preparations to cut it down, he got tangled in his rope and fell about 20…
HEFLIN–A Ranburne woman remains hospitalized at University Hospital in Birmingham because of injuries from a vehicle accident in Heflin on Tuesday night of last week. LaNessa Morton Rollins, 33, formerly of Roanoke, was taken first to Regional Medical Center in Anniston before being transferred by helicopter to UAB. The accident happened on Ross Street when…
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TITLE V MAJOR SOURCE OPERATING PERMIT AND REQUEST FOR COMMENTS Facility/Permit No. 308-0014 PUBLIC NOTICE – 350 RANDOLPH COUNTY Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC, has applied for a renewal Title V Major Source Operating Permit for Station 110 located at 1440 County Road 41, Wadley,…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by William Michael Bailey and wife, Marie Bailey, originally in favor of Wachovia Bank, National Association, on the 24th day of August, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF KERMIT DOUGLAS HANSON, DECEASED NOTICE OF SALE By Order of the Probate Court of Randolph County, the undersigned Chad Lee, Commissioner appointed to make the sale, shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder the following described property situated, lying, and being…
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Eula Mae Grier and Juliet G Thurman, Joint tenants unmarried a widow to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc, A New Jersey Corporation, on January 14, 2009,…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MAX GARY BUNN, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Max Gary Bunn, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 23rd day of June, 2015, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALBERT BOWEN, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Albert Bowen, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 23rd day of June, 2015, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given…
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TAX ELECTION Pursuant to Section 17-9-5, Code of Alabama, 1975, I, George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, do hereby give notice of Special Election to be held in Randolph County, Alabama, August 4, 2015, to levy up to a one-cent per dollar sales tax, which shall be used for the…