(WEST POINT, Ga.) W.P. “Pinky” Parmer, 93, of West Point, Ga., died Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, at his residence.Graveside funeral services were Sunday, Aug. 11, at 2 p.m. at Marseilles Cemetery in West Point with the Rev. Randy Parmer officiating.Mr. Parmer was born June 17, 1920, in Woodland, Ala. He was a police officer with…
LaGRANGE, Ga. – A young Wedowee man was killed on Tuesday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in LaGrange, Ga. Patrick Ryan Denney, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene by deputy coroner Derick Staley. According to Trooper Turner with the Georgia State Patrol, a northbound silver Grand Prix was stopped to make a left turn…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Patrick Ryan Denney, 23, of Wedowee will be at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at Souls Harbour Baptist Church, Roanoke, with the Rev. Fred Flowers officiating. Burial will follow in the Potash Church of God Cemetery, Roanoke. Mr. Denney died Tuesday, Aug. 27. Mr. Denney was born April 25, 1990, in…
(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) Emily E. Goss Heard, 70, of Chattanooga, Tenn., died Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Services will be Thursday, Aug. 29, at noon at Second Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Paul A. McDaniel officiating. Interment will be in Chattanooga National Cemetery. Mrs. Heard was born on Nov. 30, 1942, to Mann Goss and Mable…
(COLUMBUS, Ga.) Laura Brookins, 92, of Columbus, Ga., died early Tuesday morning, Aug. 27, 2013, surrounded by her loving family. The funeral will be Friday, Aug. 30, beginning at 11 a.m. EDT with the Rev. Billy Duncan officiating in the chapel of Vance-Brooks Funeral Home, Columbus. Mrs. Brookins was born Aug. 17, 1921, daughter of…
(TULLAHOMA, Tenn.) Mildred Wilder Benefield, 94, of Tullahoma, Tenn., died Tuesday morning, Aug. 20, 2013, at Life Care Center of Tullahoma. The funeral was Sunday, Aug. 25, at 3 p.m. at Tullahoma Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bratton Tucker officiating. Burial followed in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens in Tullahoma. She was a native of…
About 30 teachers, Slow Food volunteers, parents, students and faculty members turned out on Saturday morning to build raised garden beds at Knight-Enloe Elementary School. The school garden received funding through a grant from State Farm. The group built and filled four beds with dirt in four hours. Mark Head donated and delivered the dirt;…
LAKE WEDOWEE–A couple from Fort Myers, Fla., made an emergency landing in their floatplane on Lake Wedowee Sunday morning. James and Jessica Pretty had visited Michigan. On their return trip, the spent Saturday night on Weiss Lake near Centre. When they were 27 miles north of Lakeside Marina, the engine of the green and white…
They met when they were students at Alabama Politechnic Institute (Auburn University) at the Baptist Student Union in 1941. Pete came off the farm in Abanda in northern Chambers County and Kay from the big city of Birmingham. World War II was underway, and Pete would enlist in the ROTC and prepare for his role…
The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” Labor Day mobilization will be in effect from now through Sept. 2 throughout the state as a countermeasure to impaired driving and to help keep drivers safe on the roadways. Law enforcement departments will be able to intensify traffic patrols with a focus on impaired driving due to…
Andrew Wackerle, area director of United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development, attended Monday night’s Roanoke City Council meeting with the documents to be approved to get a new boom truck and possibly three to four trucks for the Streets Department. The boom truck picks up limbs and construction debris. This project has been going…
WEDOWEE–Wedowee Town Council approved the purchase of a new tractor for the town’s street department at the last council meeting. The town will purchase a 70-hp, four-wheel-drive, open-cab Kubota with a front-end loader for approximately $34,000 from the state bid list. They also received an appraisal of land in the industrial park near Jeld-Wen that…
FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness described in and secured by that certain mortgage executed by RON ELLIOTT and WILLENE ELLIOTT, husband and wife, as Mortgagor(s) to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as Mortgagee, dated the 15th day of December,…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: THE ESTATE OF CLARA B. BOYKIN, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 21st day of August, 2003, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that…
PUBLIC NOTICE The Dollar General Store in the Town of Wadley has applied for a Beer and Tobacco License. If anyone objects please notify The Town within 10 days of this notice. (35-36)
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by J. Craig Prestridge and wife, Deborah M. Prestridge, to Fairfield Financial Associates of Columbus, on the 20th day of June, 1991, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County,…
WEDOWEE–A Woodland woman died Thursday morning from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on U.S. 431 in front of Lake Wedowee Motel & Cabins. The accident around 7:48 a.m. involved a silver 2001 Pontiac Firebird car and an unloaded cattle truck. It is said the cattle truck was trying to avoid a flatbed Lowe’s truck…
Commissioner Larry Roberts recommended at a recent meeting of the Randolph County Commission that the county prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages within 500 feet of churches, schools, hospitals and clinics––property line to property line. Acknowledging that the commission lacks the power to do this, he said the commission should ask for local legislation to…
It was the late Fuller Kimbrell, Gov. James E. “Big Jim” Folsom’s finance director, who summed up the whole thing about as neatly as anyone could. “In my day,” he said, “politics in Alabama was a dirty business, if it was done right.” And it was. I can recall many a time when I sat…
RCHS head coach Pat Prestridge is no stranger to the Handley-RCHS rivalry. He played in it under coach Ron Watters, and he coached in it back in the early 2000s. But the revival of the rivalry – a 49-28 Handley win in Friday’s preseason game – after five years in hibernation did not bring back…