PANAMA CITY BEACH–The Melton-Morrison family beach vacation was less than restful this year as family members found themselves responders to a near drowning in the riptides off of Panama City Beach.Roanoke Police Chief Adam Melton said on Friday of last week the family had just gotten outside to the beach and set up their tent…

Realtor Gene Crouch addressed the commission at the workshop and asked what will be done about illegal subdivisions. He said if developers don’t feel like regulations will be enforced, they do whatever they want to do. Commission Chairman Larry Roberts said they gave the county attorney two names of developers who have illegally developed subdivisions.…

In a workshop prior to Monday night’s council meeting city attorney John Tinney told the council members what they need to consider now the Charter Communications franchise is ending after 30 years. Tinney said much has changed in the past 30 years such as bundling of cable television, Internet service, etc. He provided them with…

STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage and security agreement executed by TERRY HILL AKA TERRY LYN HILL, unmarried, and COURTNEY HILL, unmarried, on the 27th day of June 2014, to VANDERBILT MORTGAGE AND FINANCE, INC.,…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Charles Bassett and Janet L Bassett husband and wife, originally in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for GTC Mortgage Company Inc. For Use In Alabama By Guaranty Trust Company,…

NOTICE Randolph County Commission is considering the feasibility of closing a section of unpaved roadway in the Folsom Community being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of County Road 187 and County Road 88, being further described as 264 County Road 88, for a point of beginning, thence run northerly along said…

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY DR-2011-063 CORNELIUS R. COFIELD V. MONICA L. HARPER COFIELD Monica Lynn Harper, whose whereabouts are unknown, must answer Cornelius Cofield’s petition for divorce and other relief by Aug. 14, 2015, or thereafter, a judgment by default may be rendered against her in Case No. DR-2011-000063, Circuit Court of…

There is little doubt that Alabama’s general fund budget, which includes virtually everything except education, is broke, without enough funding to operate at previous years’ levels. Unless a solution is found quickly, Alabamians will feel the effects in the coming year. Alabama is among a handful of states that separates its education and general fund…

Out on I-20, just before it crosses into Georgia, there are giant fireworks warehouses.   They may well constitute the largest “industry” in the East Heflin-South Muscadine metropolitan area. A friend who worked in one of them from time to time, told of how when fireworks were illegal across the line, entrepreneurial Georgians would drive…

Alabama is one of a handful of states that works out of two budgets. We have a General Fund Budget and a separate Education Budget. Our General Fund is where the severe problem rests. The reason is that the General Fund gets none of the growth taxes so its revenue has remained the same for…

(COSTA RICA) Memorial services for Lois Richardson Brown, 76, of Costa Rica, formerly of Randolph County, will be Sunday, June 28, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church in Roanoke with the Revs. S.T. Janney and Jeff Burns officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Mrs. Brown passed away Tuesday, March 24. A…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Voncille Melton Matthews, 75, died June 22, 2015 at Hospice of LaGrange following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. The funeral will be Wednesday, June 24, at 11 a.m. EDT at Hunter-Allen-Myhand Funeral Home. Burial will be private at Shadowlawn Cemetery. Mrs. Matthews was born June 8, 1940, in Randolph County, Ala., to Alvin…

(VALLEY) Roger Smith, 64, of Valley died Monday, June 22, 2015, at Bethany House in Auburn. Graveside services will be Thursday, June 25, at 11 a.m. EDT at Resthaven Memorial Gardens in Lanett with the Rev. Sam Wood officiating. Mr. Smith was born in West Point, Ga., on Sept. 24, 1950, to the late Bobbie…

(FRUITHURST) Clifford Bradley Teague, 27, died Saturday, June 20, 2015. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Upper Cane Creek Cemetery. Mr. Teague was a native and lifelong resident of Fruithurst. He graduated from Cleburne County High School in 2005. Bradley was…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Clara Sue Baker, 72, of Roanoke will be Saturday, June 27, 2015, at 1 p.m. at Wehadkee Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Elijah Jackson Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Baker passed away Monday, June 22, at West Georgia Medical Center, LaGrange. A Roanoke native, Mrs.…

(ROANOKE) Funeral arrangements are pending for Jerome Carrol Patterson, 49, of Roanoke who died Friday, June 19, in Roanoke. Vines Funeral Home, LaFayette.

(DAYTON, Ohio) Leroy Trammell, 78, of Dayton, Ohio, died Thursday, June 11, 2015. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 19, at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Dayton. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife Dennise Trammell; children and their spouses, Kelvin and Cynthia Trammell, Royce and Candi Trammell and LaChelle Trammell-Jackson;…

(MONTGOMERY) Jesse Lewis Mathews, 92, of Montgomery died Monday, June 15, 2015. There will be a short visitation on Thursday at Benefield Funeral Home in Wedowee at noon followed by a graveside service at 1 p.m. A memorial service will be in Montgomery on Friday, June 19, at 2 p.m. in the Stakely Chapel of…

(WEDOWEE) Everado Marin, 29, of Wedowee died Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at University Hospital in Birmingham. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 18, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel in Heflin with the Rev. Donnie officiating. Survivors include: his mother, Sanjana Sustaita Silva; father, Francisco Marin Torres; two sisters, Norma Alicia Marin…

(GAHANNA, Ohio) Elsie C. Moody Hisle Potts, 94, of Gahanna, Ohio, a longtime Portsmouth, Ohio, resident, died Saturday, June 13, 2015, at the Rehabilitation and Health Center of Gahanna. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 19, at Pleasant Green Baptist Church with the Rev. Clarence Parker officiating and interment in Memorial Burial…