(ROANOKE) Funeral services for infant Tucker Brian Laws of Roanoke will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Scott Whaley officiating. Burial will follow in Randolph Memory Gardens.Tucker died Wednesday, Oct. 3, at West Georgia Medical Center, LaGrange.Tucker is survived by his parents, Brian and Angelia Laws…
(RANBURNE) Funeral services for Wendell “Duck” White, 69, of Ranburne will be Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Old Hopewell Baptist Church with the Revs. Lewis Cushion and Lanice White officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. White died Thursday, Oct. 4, at his residence. Mr. White was born April 8,…
(LANETT) Harvey Lee Brown, 65, of Lanett died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in Valley. The funeral will be Saturday, Oct. 6, a 2 p.m. EDT at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley. Burial will follow at Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery. Born April 10, 1947, in Valley, Mr. Brown was the son of the late…
Matt talks with Handley head coach Mike Battles about the region race and the upcoming game against Elmore County.
(TYLER, Texas) Mary Catherine Higgins Watson, 60, of Tyler, Texas, died Thursday, Sept. 18, 2012. The funeral was Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 11 a.m. at Hopewell Valley Baptist Church in Tyler with the Rev. Efrem Collins officiating. Burial was at Hopewell Valley Community Cemetery in Tyler. Mrs. Watson was born Jan. 6, 1952, in Roanoke,…
(RANBURNE) Clyde Gibbs of Ranburne died Oct. 3, 2012. He was 86. Mr. Gibbs was born on June 1, 1926, in Cleburne County to the late Dock and Donie Langley Gibbs. He was a farmer and a member of Ranburne First Baptist Church. Funeral services will be Saturday, Oct. 6, at 10 a.m. EDT at…
ROANOKE) Funeral service for Barbara Jean Morgan, 63, will be announced by Goodson Funeral Home Inc. Mrs. Morgan died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
(TALLADEGA) Funeral service for Roy Watson Hill, 93, will be Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, at 11 a.m. at Usrey Brown-Service Funeral Home with the Revs. Randy Howell and Bill Huffaker officiating. Burial will be in Pine Hill Memorial Park. Mr. Hill died Oct. 1 at St. Vincent’s, St. Clair, Pell City. He was a native…
(NEWELL) Funeral services for Jeanette Craven Hill, 70, of Newell will be Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Chapel with Revs. David Waldrop and Clay Pawley officiating. Burial will follow in the Bethel West Baptist Church Cemetery, Wedowee. Mrs. Hill died Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Wedowee Hospital. Mrs. Hill was born…
Andy Ethridge of ALA-GA Roll Off Container, Inc. has been staging containers and equipment to use while demolishing the three buildings next to the First Baptist Church lot in downtown Roanoke. The city of Roanoke awarded the bid for the removal of the businesses to him. Two of the buildings seem to be hanging on…
The Keep Dollars in Randolph County Committee held a press conference Monday at The Missing Link Restaurant to lay out the case for alcoholic beverage sales in Randolph County. This non-profit organization has the stated goal of working to promote progress and increased retail sales and tax revenues. Its first major project is to support…
Principals from Roanoke City Schools presented their annual discipline reports from the 2011-2012 school year at the school board meeting last week. Superintendent Chuck Marcum thanked them for what they do. He gives some of the credit for the good reports to the parents, churches and the community as a whole. The teachers go far…
A forked limb on an oak tree in front of a Price Street house broke Saturday, crushing the 1974 F100 Ford pickup parked out front. Sherry Rowell, who rents the house from James Watson, said she loved the tree but her husband, Randy, loved his truck. She loved to sit out on the porch of…
Chuck Smith, president of the Randolph County Animal Shelter, has accepted from Suzan T. Scholl her watercolor painting finished with an acrylic overlay so no glass is needed. “Kudzu Grows on Butler’s Mill” circa late 1900’s is the second-place prize in the raffle drawing to raise funds for the shelter. First-place prize is $300 in…
A Roanoke couple was arrested last week in connection with the theft of a vehicle from an apartment complex. According to the reports from Roanoke Police Department, Ashley Nicole Brown, 27, and Gregory Markeith Henderson, 28, of 364 Field St., Apt. 3, Roanoke, are charged with receiving stolen property. On the night of Sept. 22-23…
Bicyclists from Opelika on the 105-mile Johnny Ray Centennial Saturday were greeted downtown by Roanoke Rotarians, who sponsored the rest stop, and Clarence Brown, a member of the East Alabama Cycling Club. While 155 bikers biked, about 120 of them chose the shorter rides of 62 miles, 34 miles and 20 miles, plus the centennial,…
Flu season officially began on Monday, and already we have had opportunities for getting flu shots. We’ll have more. Public health officials fear fewer people may take advantage of the opportunities this year, however. That’s because last year was such a mild flu season. Getting a flu shot is something that is easy to put…
Recently my family and another family and assorted children–ours, theirs, friends’–went to see Auburn play Clemson in the Georgia Dome. It was the second contest of the 2012 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game Weekend. The night before Tennessee had whipped North Carolina State to give the SEC a one-victory edge. We decided not to drive into Atlanta.…
Starting this week, as the New Orleans Times-Picayune ceases to be a daily newspaper, The Advocate, a daily paper in Baton Rouge, will begin offering home delivery of a New Orleans edition. The new Times-Picayune publication schedule is taking place at the same time in Alabama as the state’s three largest daily papers, The Birmingham…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by FELIX S. JORDAN, Jointly, to SMALL TOWN BANK on April 30, 2009, said Mortgage being recorded in Book 543, Page 437 in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama; and SMALL TOWN…