(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Kimberly P. Towler, 54, of Roanoke will be Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at 2 p.m. atQuattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Tony McManus, Keith Benefield and Roger Florence officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens.Mrs. Towler died Tuesday, Feb. 4, at her home.A lifelong Randolph County resident, Mrs. Towler was…
(ANNISTON) Sara Carter Stewart of Anniston died Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Visitation will be from 10-10:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 6, at Gray Brown-Service Mortuary. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. at Forestlawn Gardens. Mrs. Stewart was born in Randolph County on Sept. 13, 1923, the daughter of Grady and Nancy Holmes Carter. At an…
(JACKSONVILLE) Ezra Lee Stevens, 77, of Jacksonville died Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, at Stringfellow Hospital. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at Dryden Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Rayburn Jones officiating. Burial will follow in New Home Methodist Church Cemetery, Wedowee. Mr. Stevens a native of Cleburne County was a…
(WEDOWEE) Corile Combs James, 79, of Wedowee died Jan. 23, 2013, at St. Dominick Hospital in Jackson, Miss. A memorial service will be planned at a later date. Born Nov. 26, 1934, in LaGrange, Ga., Mrs. James was the daughter of the late Robert and Mary Kate Combs. She had worked as a nurse and…
The Woodland Bobcats have put together a sterling 25-1 record over the course of the regular season and have been ranked as class 2A’s No. 1 team from start to finish. After 12 weeks and 26 games the beginning of postseason basketball is a welcome sight for the defending state champs. “It seems like we’ve…
The office of revenue commissioner appears to be drawing the most interest of any local races for the June 3 primary. Revenue Commissioner Josh Burns is seeking the Alabama House District 37 seat as a Democrat, and several have qualified to run for revenue commissioner position. David Meddick, Randolph County Democratic Party chairman, said those…
The county experienced three house fires over the past week. At least two of them seem to be caused by their occupants just trying to keep warm. Graham fire A family home at 2500 County Rd. 87, Graham, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon of last week. According to the report from Randolph County…
It is much easier for elected officials to do their jobs if they don’t have to answer questions about the decisions they are making. Citizen oversight of those the public elects to represent them is what makes our system of government work, though. And we have laws protecting the rights of citizens to know what…
The winter weather that began the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 28, challenged those in Randolph County and travelers outside the county. Stories from Russ Cummings, Steve Wier, and O’Day and Carl Britt, who were part of the massive traffic jams in Atlanta, Birmingham and around Leeds, show how they met those challenges as well as…
Roanoke Police seek the public’s help in locating a missing person, Dennis Culberson. Culberson is a black male, age 55, 5-foot-10 and approximately 185 pounds. He was last seen Friday, Jan. 31. Some neighbors have seen him around Avenue A, the package store and Chestnut Street. One friend had concerns about him because he had…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUCILLE WHALEY, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Lucille Whaley, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 27th day of January, 2014, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having…
PUBLIC NOTICE The Randolph County Commission is considering the feasibility of closing a section of roadway in the Bethel Community being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of County Road 87 and County Road 444, for a point of beginning, thence run easterly along said County Road 444 a distance of 0.95…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that Mortgage executed on the 8th day of July, 2009 by Phillip M. Ray, Sr. and Andrea C. Ray to I.B. Moore, which said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama, in…
PUBLIC NOTICE RANDOLPH COUNTY HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN The Randolph County Emergency Management Agency will be revising Randolph County’s Hazard Mitigation Plan. If you wish to make a proposal please send your proposal to the Randolph County Commission Office, Post Office Box 228, Wedowee, Alabama 36278. Proposals must be in the Commission Office before 3:00p.m. February…
The Roanoke Board of Education meeting set for Tuesday night of last week was moved to the morning due to inclement weather coming in. Superintendent Chuck Marcum commented on the Alabama Department of Education graduation rates listed for 2013. Roanoke City Schools posted a 91 percent graduation rate–much better than the state average of 80…
Randolph County Revenue Commissioner Josh Burns has been in the county courthouse all his life but is now looking to move to the statehouse in Montgomery. His grandfather was District Judge Joe Tom Burns. “I used to come up here a good bit when he was here,” he said. It was a home away from…
Reginald and Tara Staples opened Express Chicken and Fish Tuesday, planning to provide a wide-range of dishes to this community. They own the LaFayette Express Chicken and Fish and run concessions at Auburn football’s Tiger Walk. Reginald is well known to local residents as a street vendor at Summer on Main. The restaurant is in…
Let me begin with this observation. With our elected representatives gathered in Montgomery to do the people’s business the time seems right for me to issue my annual warning to them. Think before you act. Or the law of unanticipated consequences will get you. You know that law, the one that holds that an intervention…
After more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the public doesn’t think the United States has achieved its goals in either country according to a recent poll by the respected Pew Research organization. About half of Americans (52%) say the U.S. has mostly failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan while 38%…
Every three or four years–about as often as it snows on the sunny side of the Blue Wall of the Appalachians–I am called upon to defend the sturdiness of Southern people in the face of wintry attacks. Northerners tend to snicker at us just because our cities are immobilized by a few flakes of snow,…