(REDLANDS, Calif.) Martha Nan Lee Handzel, 81, of Redlands, Calif, died Feb. 25, 2015.Memorial services will be at Emerson Bartlett Memorial Chapel on Thursday, March 5, at 11 a.m. Burial to follow at Hillside Memorial Park.Mrs. Handzel was born in Wedowee on July 24, 1933, to Virginia Hodnett Lee Walker and John Thomas Lee. She…
Handley posted a perfect 4-0 mark over two days last week to win the Handley Invitational Tournament and raise its record to 8-1 to start the season. The Tigers emerged from an eight-team field and bested 6A Valley in the championship game on Saturday night with a hard-fought 3-2 victory. Logan Taylor’s two-run double in…
Handley High School theatre class, with assistance from eight students from the middle school, will perform Annie on March 5 and 6. The show tells the timeless story of how a poor orphan girl named Annie is adopted by Daddy Warbucks – the richest man in America. The comic strip has been a favorite since…
A Roanoke teenager was injured in a two-vehicle accident on Monday evening south of Rock Stand on U.S. 431. Summer Roberts, 19, was the driver of a 1996 Saturn that was northbound. She had to be extricated from the vehicle by responders. The other driver, Tamela East of Roanoke, was southbound in a 2002 Chevrolet…
NEW HOPE–Nonnie Faye Huey turned 101 years old Feb. 10. Friends and family gathered at her home to help her celebrate. Her 97-year-old sister, Mary Lou Huey, who lives across the road, had to take only a few steps to attend. Nonnie Faye, who remembers going in a wagon to church, is now bedridden. Her…
Alabama’s First Lady Dianne Bentley signed Nathanael Smitherman’s shovel after a tree planting ceremony in honor of Arbor Day. Nathanael, a student at Woodland High School, won second place in the Arbor Day poster contest. Some 3,119 students in 161 classrooms in 50 schools participated in the contest. The First Lady hosted a tree planting…
Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) visited Wedowee Elementary School (WES). During this event, students had the chance to learn about marine science education from a DISL specialist. The most exciting part of the event was the Touch Table. Students had the opportunity to touch and pick up a wide variety of both wet and dry…
Two trees were planted in honor of outstanding Roanoke residents now gone. All three loved trees and two served on the Tree Board. Roanoke is a Tree City and Charlie Wise, work unit manager/forester with the Alabama Forestry Commission explained that to maintain the Tree City status they have to show they held an event…
Included in Roanoke’s Black History Parade Saturday were churches, gospel groups, matrons, businesses, organizations, groups such as the Young Motivated Girls, American Legion Post 53 members, the Alabama Democratic Conference, local elected leaders and the fire departments. The combined Woodland and Randolph County High School Bands marched together, for what some said was the first…
The Randolph County spring term grand jury re-indicted Larry Clark Jr., 35, of 7617 County Road 65, Roanoke in the death of Wendell Wayne “Boots” Heard, 72. Assistant District Attorney Amy Newsome explained he was previously indicted on the charge of vehicular homicide but the state legislature repealed the statute so the indictment was dismissed.…
All citizens of Randolph County and the surrounding area are invited and encouraged to attend a forum on rural and small town healthcare on Thursday, March 12 at 6 p.m. in the Roanoke City Auditorium (on the Handley High School campus). There is a statewide and nationwide crisis with regard to the availability of hospitals…
WEDOWEE–“You all have always done a lot with limited resources,” said auditor Carolyn Jeffs at the Randolph County Healthcare Authority meeting on Thursday evening of last week. Jeff and John Kinsley of the accounting firm Warren Averett were at the meeting to present the authority’s audit report. The overall findings are a “clean opinion.” Because…
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to Randolph County; to authorize the county commission to levy additional sales and use taxes of up to one percent to be used for the construction, maintenance, or operation of licensed hospital facilities in Randolph County; to provide for certain matters relating to the administration, collection, and…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE WHEREAS, default has been made in the terms of the Real Estate Mortgage, executed on the 1st day of October, 2013, by Justin Seaborn, as Mortgagor, in favor of Luigi Barone, as Mortgagee, as recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County,…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Teresa Taylor, an unmarried woman, originally in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., on the 31st day of August, 2009, said mortgage recorded in the Office…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MAVIS HYATT RAY, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Letters of Administration with Will Annexed of said deceased having been granted to James Ray on the 2nd day of March, 2015, by the Honorable George Diamond,…
NOTICE OF SALE The following vehicle has been abandoned at 160 Rosie Hill Lane, Wedowee, AL 36278 and will be sold on April 13, 2015 at the same address. 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 VIN# 3B7HF13Y61G742280 Butch Jackson 160 Rosie Hill Lane Wedowee, AL 36278 770-356-8991 (9-10p)
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: JANICE MCDONALD, DECEASED ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters of Administration on the Estate of Janice McDonald, deceased, having been granted to Gregory McDonald on the 2nd day of March, 2015, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that…
PUBLIC SALE Stack & Pack Self Storage, pursuant to the Alabama Self Storage Act (8-15-33) will conduct a public sale to the highest bidder for cash only on their premises, 410 Industrial Ave., Roanoke, AL 36274. Phone 334-863-7867. The auction will be on March 14, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. on the following unit. The company…
PUBLIC SALE Stack & Pack Self Storage, pursuant to the Alabama Self Storage Act (8-15-33) will conduct a public sale to the highest bidder for cash only on their premises, 410 Industrial Ave., Roanoke, AL 36274. Phone 334-863-7867. The auction will be on March 14, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. on the following unit. The company…