A LaFayette man was injured and one arrested following a shooting outside the Roanoke Armory late Saturday night.Antoine Demetrius Heard, 23, of LaFayette is charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle and attempted murder. He turned himself in to Roanoke Police Department on Monday.Heard and the victim, Deperriez Akeem Burton, also of LaFayette, had been…
WEDOWEE–Time can be critical when searching for a lost loved one with Alzheimer’s, autism or any cognitive disorder. Randolph County Sheriff’s Office is putting into place a program that can turn hours into minutes. During this week’s Randolph County Commission meeting, Cpl. Kent Smith, state coordinator of Project Lifesaver, explained the program to the commission…
PUBLIC NOTICE The Randolph County HealthCare Authority will be discussing the potential sale of the Woodland Pharmacy Building and the Wadley Clinic Building at the next meeting at 6:30 p.m. on March 27, 2014 at the County Commissioners Office in Wedowee, Al. (11-13)
CONTINUATION NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by Mary R. Hall, a single woman, to North American Mortgage Company, dated the 5th day of January, 2000, which Mortgage was recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILMA JEAN WHALEY, DEC. Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to Patrick Whaley on the 4th day of March, 2014, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of the Probate Court of Randolph County, notice is hereby given that…
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 Bruce Jamison Young, an unmarried man, on the 22nd day of February, 2007 to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph…
The Roanoke City Council received two proposals for engineering work on street paving. Mayor Mike Fisher told council members to take them home with them and they can decide what they want to do at the next meeting. Harmon Engineering of LaFayette gave a price of $4,500 and said they would need a week’s advance…
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated October 10, 1997, executed by Donnie Dutton and wife, Teresa Dutton, to Bank of America, FSB, which mortgage was recorded on October 16, 1997, in Mortgage Book 349, Page 293, and assigned to The Bank of…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: MILTON RANDY COFIELD, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters Testamentary on the estate of Milton Randy Cofield, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 6th day of March, 2014, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA TO: FREDERICK LAVONE MIDDLEBROOKS On the 10th day of March, 2014, a Petition was filed in this Court for the name change of a minor child, CHM, date of birth March 7, 1999. A hearing upon this petition has been set for the 10th day of April,…
PUBLIC SALE Stack & Pack Self Storage, pursuant to the Alabama Provisions of the 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 22, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. on the following…
Where to begin when discussing the lunacy that characterizes this legislature? Let’s start with state Sen. Scott Beason, who has introduced yet another bill in his ongoing attempt to make sure Alabama students can’t compete with those elsewhere. Beason’s Senate Bill 443 would allow local school systems to “…opt out of the Common Core curriculum.”…
Down on the Alabama Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle, locals are bracing for the arrival of the annual invasion known as Spring Break. For years there really wasn’t much to it. Spring wasn’t summer. Spring was chilly and windy. Spring was not beach weather, But when you are young and out of school, you…
When state Rep. Alvin Holmes, the bombastic state lawmaker from Montgomery, makes one of his frequent outrageous statements even the best of the state’s news media go into an apoplectic state of mind. He played one of his notorious prank cards last week on the floor of the House during debate on abortion legislation. Said…
In the world of high school sports, when a coach tells you his team is young, that’s code for, “We’re not very good.” So it might be a little surprising when the first words out of Handley head softball coach Randy Hall’s mouth are, “We’re very young,” when describing his team. Despite the fact that…
Looking for a catchy nickname for this year’s version of the Southern Union baseball team? Try “the Bounce-Back Bison.” Southern Union started the season 2-7, then won seven of its next eight games. The Bison then started division play with a three-game sweep at the hands of defending national champion Central Alabama. Right on cue,…
The Wadley Bulldogs are 5-4 and 2-0 in area play after a sweep of Loachapoka last week. It’s a solid start for first-year coach Cary Montgomery, who took over as head coach this year after serving as an assistant for Gary Broach last season. Montgomery had been out of teaching altogether for four years before…
Southern Union used a combination of defensive savvy and hot three-point shooting to win its first two games in the ACCC tournament at Wallace-Hanceville last week. But with a berth in the NJCAA national tournament on the line, those two things abandoned the Bison, who fell to Shelton State 68-51 in the tournament semifinals Friday,…
(LANETT) Helen Christine Henry Workman, 81, of Lanett died Monday, March 10, 2014, at LaGrange Hospice in LaGrange, Ga. The funeral will be Wednesday, March 12, at 11 a.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley with the Revs. Floyd Aikens and Don Downs officiating. Born May 23, 1932, in Randolph County, Mrs.…
(GRAHAM) Mary Linda Wiggins of Graham died Sunday, March 9, 2014. She was 79. Funeral services for Mrs. Wiggins will be Tuesday, March 11, at 2 p.m. EDT at Campground United Methodist Church in Graham, with the Revs. Jerry Wiggins and Ed Grooms officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Mrs. Wiggins was born…