In a show of appreciation to its customers, Alabama State Parks is offering free camping during its Customer Appreciation Days from February 8-12. During the event campers can stay for up to five nights based upon the availability of campsites. The free camping offer applies to both improved and primitive sites, but is not available…

Many of us had measles as children and survived. Nonetheless, measles is the most deadly of all childhood rash and fever illnesses. And it’s one of the most easily spread. For years we heard little about measles until a recent outbreak at Disneyland brought it back into our consciousness. Now we learn that incidents of…

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftan o’ the pudding-race! Aboon them a’ ye take your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang’s my arm Robert Burns, Ode to a Haggis Now I can understand how some of you gentle readers would think that the talking Kinky…

It didn’t get much attention at the time, but the elections last November did more than give Republicans a majority in the U.S. Senate. Voters also added to the ranks of people on both sides of Capitol Hill who believe members of Congress should serve a limited number of terms. I know a lot of…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that Mortgage executed on the 8th day of June, 2009, by Gerry Ken Runyan and Christi Adams Runyan to Oxford-University Bank of Oxford, Mississippi, said mortgage being recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County, Alabama, in the record of Mortgages, Book 545, Page…

STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY TO: THE RANDOLPH LEADER, a newspaper published in Randolph County By virtue of an execution issued the 14th day of November, 2014, from the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama, for collection of a judgment in Civil Action CV 2014-900050.00, First Bank, plaintiff versus Reliance Real Estate, Inc. of Alabama,…

STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY TO: THE RANDOLPH LEADER, a newspaper published in Randolph County By virtue of an execution issued the 14th day of November, 2014, from the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama, for collection of a judgment in Civil Action CV 2014-900050.00, First Bank, plaintiff versus Reliance Real Estate, Inc. of Alabama,…

STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY TO: THE RANDOLPH LEADER, a newspaper published in Randolph County By virtue of an execution issued the 14th day of November, 2014, from the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama, for collection of a judgment in Civil Action CV 2014-900050.00, First Bank, plaintiff versus Reliance Real Estate, Inc. of Alabama,…

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CASE NO. CV-2014-900060 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. PLAINTIFF V. STEPHEN B. LIPHAM AND KRISTINA M. LIPHAM, et. al, DEFENDANTS TO: Stephen B. Lipham and Kristina M. Lipham, whose whereabouts are unknown: You are hereby notified that the above styled cause was filed against Stephen…

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BILLY RAY MAPP, DEC. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Letters of Administration of said deceased having been granted to Alicia Moon on the 30th day of January, 2015, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of the…

(WADLEY) Funeral services for Sybil Ann Heard, 59, of Wadley will be Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Stoney Halsey and Darden Arrington officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Ms. Heard died Monday, Feb. 2, at East Alabama Medical Center. A lifelong Randolph County resident,…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Rob Hunt, 47, of Roanoke will be Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, at 1 p.m. at Rocky Branch Baptist Church, Woodland, with the Rev. Matt Browning officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Hunt died Monday, Feb. 2, at Wedowee Hospital. A Florida native, Mr. Hunt was born Oct. 18,…

(WADLEY) Jean Dowdell Stockdale, 78, of Wadley died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, at her residence. The funeral will be at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Wadley, on Thursday, Feb. 5, at noon with the Rev. Cornelius Reese officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Stockdale is survived by her husband, Donald Stockdale of Wadley;…

(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for Larcus B. Dewberry, 95, of Lineville will be Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Pine Grove Baptist Church with the Revs. Billy Taylor and Richard East officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Dewberry died Monday, Feb. 2, at Clay County Hospital. A native and lifelong resident…

(LaFAYETTE) Eloise Mims Clark, 90, of LaFayette died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at East Alabama Medical Center. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at LaFayette City Cemetery with her grandson-in-law, Carlton Amason, officiating. She was born in Talladega County on May 20, 1924, to George Mims and Aileen Caldwell…

(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Basil Ray Young, 74, of LaGrange, Ga., died Feb. 1, 2015, at West Georgia Health. The funeral will be Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 3 p.m. EST at Higgins LaGrange Chapel with the Rev. Danny Geter officiating. Interment will follow at Shadowlawn Cemetery. Mr. Young was born May 24, 1940, in Randolph County, Ala.,…

(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Gary Hudson Nelson, 67, of Roanoke will be Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, at 11 a.m. at Roanoke First Baptist Church with the Rev. Steve Dean officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. Gary went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Jan. 31. A resident of Alabama for the past…

(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Brother Harry Cobb, 84, of Wedowee will be Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, at 11 a.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Oak Grove Church of Christ Cemetery, Woodland. Brother Cobb passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham. A Birmingham native, Brother Cobb was born June…

(HOMEWOOD) Mary Bassett Hodges Baldwin died Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Graveside services will be at Randolph Memory Gardens on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. Dr. Doug Dortsch will officiate. She was born in Roanoke on Nov. 13, 1923, one of ten children in a large, close-knit family. Mary will always be remembered as a…

(DECATUR, Ga.) Frances Lorene Hall Biggs, 80, of Decatur, Ga., died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at Community Bible Church with Pastor Brooks Everett officiating. Interment will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park. She was born in Letcher to the late Bill and Clera Wilkins…