(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Sarah Jemima Clementine Pike Knight, 79, of Roanoke will be Thursday, May 8, 2014, at 2 p.m. at Forest Home Church with Darden Arrington, Jerry Pike and Lee Owens officiating. Burial will follow at Pike Cemetery.Mrs. Knight died Monday, May 5, at West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange.A Roanoke native, Mrs.…
(FAIRHOPE) Sue Fisher Webb Darden Bradley died April 1, 2014. There will be a family memorial service for her at Lowell Methodist Church later in the summer. Sue was born in Roanoke on Aug. 1, 1929, to William “Willie” and Velma Fisher. She was a former employee of Handley Mills and Southern Union State Junior…
After a year of legalized alcoholic beverage sales the figures are in, and Roanoke’s city government shows a substantial financial boost over previous years when no taxes or fees were collected on alcohol sales. In those years, under one of Alabama’s quirky laws, the county and its municipalities shared in a small portion of the…
Recently Rick Bragg, who next to Harper Lee has got to be Alabama’s favorite author, observed that when he started writing he was a reporter, paid to dig up new stories. Now, he mused, he is mostly paid to remember. I know the feeling. Last week I recalled a headline from a few years back. …
“I stood on the edge of quiet fields stretching away to woods, near the small French town of Fère-en-Tardenois in the Marne Valley. Before me loomed a monumental and poignant figure: an American soldier in World War I carrying a dead comrade from the battlefield. There is not much else here: a simple inscribed plinth…
Osmose Railroad Services has arrived to work on the Louina Street CSX bridge. The old wooden bridge had been closed since last July for safety reasons due to its deteriorating and poor condition. On Monday equipment appeared on the vacant lot adjoining the bridge, and railroad personnel in CSX vehicles were in the street leading…
WEDOWEE–Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather, and according to the fourth-graders in Randolph County, so is cornmeal. The students rotated through 17 stations set up by the Randolph County Young Farmers Committee during their ninth annual Farm Day at Kiwanis Park April 25 in Wedowee. FFA students from the county assisted with…
WADLEY–“Fun is in the Air!” at Southern Union this summer as the college holds its annual Kids Kollege summer camp. Sponsored by the SUSCC Alumni Association, Kids Kollege gives the youth of east central Alabama an opportunity to explore various subjects in a fun, supportive environment. Children participate in sessions such as art, sports, science,…
Since the rains quit, the Martin Theatre project has been a beehive of activity with a number of machines and workers. Friday employees of Harris Pate Developments of Anniston were busily painting the trusses and bridging black with an industrial marine coating to protect it and keep if from rusting. Co-owner Greg Pate, with Jerry…
MINNEAPOLIS–Handley High’s Academic Team members were invited to the National Academic Quiz Tournaments Small Schools National Championship for the first time and finished 36th overall out of 50 teams during the weekend. But sponsor Richard Head pointed out they lost to the team that won it all. They barely missed the playoffs, he said. It…
Randolph County Chamber of Commerce will host “Meet the Candidate Political Forum” on Tuesday, May 13, at 6:30 p.m. CDT in the Main Courtroom of the Randolph County Courthouse in Wedowee. All candidates for local offices, State Senate and State House of Representatives offices are being invited to attend. The forum is sponsored by Lake…
Roanoke Mayor Mike Fisher released figures on the annual alcoholic beverage sales and related taxes at Monday night’s council meeting. The city took in $111,868.74 in alcohol taxes. Of that the schools got five percent or $8,158.03 and the Randolph County Economic Development Authority received 15 percent or $13,506.20. The other 80 percent goes into…
The Roanoke City Council last week had a public hearing on properties it plans to tear down or clean up. The only ones to appear at the hearing were Fletcher and Katherine Pinkard, who complained about the College Street property adjacent to theirs belonging to Mamie Garrett. Mr. Pinkard said the structure needs to be…
Six Roanoke young people were arrested this week and charged with third-degree burglary in connection with a break-in and vandalism at the now-closed Randolph Medical Center. Between April 2-13 at Randolph Medical Center, several glass doors were broken, fire extinguishers had been sprayed in the halls and in some rooms, windows were broken, walls in…
STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Ray Yarbrough and wife, Deborah Yarbrough on the 3rd day of October, 2009, to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph…
STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Barbara Canant, on the 15th day of May, 2007 to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage from MERLE TRAVIS FARMER (herein referred to as “Grantor” or “Mortgagor”) to COMMUNITY & SOUTHERN BANK, assignee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for the National Bank of Georgia (herein referred to as “CSB”…
NOTICE OF CIVIL LAWSUIT TO: JEFFREY L. NOLEN, Individually and as Trustee of the Mary John Nolen Family Trust This is to notify that Civil Action No. CV 2013-900131, entitled Mary John Nolen vs. Jeffrey L. Nolen, et al, is presently pending in the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama, Randolph County Courthouse, One Main…
NOTICE OF INTENT TO ABATE NUISANCES The City Council of the City of Roanoke has approved resolutions regarding the dangerous structures located on the following properties, more particularly described in the resolutions: South Street property owned by Bessie Terry; Riley Street property owned by Chandra Bowen; Main Street property owned by John C. Bell and…
This Saturday is the 6th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta Races at Chimney Cove Properties on Lake Wedowee. “This event provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to help our schools and our homeless animals,” said Marty Kirby of Foundation for Randolph County Schools. “We, as a Foundation, truly believe it is within our power as a…