Fifth Judicial Circuit assistant district attorney Amy Newsome said the most significant indictment returned by the recent grand jury was the indictment of Robert Gary Sims Jr., 46, of 3552 County Road 30, Roanoke for murder in the death of his wife, Brenda H. Sims, 59.Both Sims were reserve Randolph County deputies. At the time…
WEDOWEE–Randolph County Commission approved its budgets for the 2012-2013 fiscal year during Monday’s meeting. The budget calls for $3,750,119 in total expenses in the general fund. This includes many county offices and other organizations, such as: county commission – $621,606; circuit judges’ – $624; circuit clerk – $11,200; district judge – $1,200; drug court program…
The Randolph County Board of Education approved its 2012-2013 budget of $20,468,218. The total expenses for personnel are $15,584,544. This includes $11,189,788 for salaries and $4,394,756 for matching benefits. Planned expenses for capital projects (re-roofing and the new cafeteria at Woodland) are $1,814,278. ACCESS labs for all schools will be paid for by a RUS…
Roanoke Mayor Mike Fisher said he had talked to Andy Etheridge who won the bid to demolish the three buildings downtown, and Etheridge will start Wednesday, Oct. 3. Fisher said Etheridge is a certified inspector. The council debated buying the exercise equipment from The Fitness Vine for $6,000 and putting it in the recreation department…
Three local people were injured in three separate accidents on Saturday evening. In the first accident at about 8:12 p.m., 4 miles south of Wedowee on U.S. 431, Jason Brown of Wedowee, 31, struck a brown bull with his 2011 Honda truck. The bull was killed in the accident. Just a few minutes later, Taylor…
The East Alabama Cycling Club is again doing the 105-mile Johnny Ray Century bike ride from Trinity United Methodist Church in Opelika to Roanoke and back on Saturday. Last year was the first time the club did the ride to Roanoke, and Clarence Brown, a club member and the greeter at the rest stop next…
A resident of Knollwood Baptist Retirement Community was injured in an accident in the parking lot on Monday morning. According to the report, Leonard Gay Brewer, 80, was backing out of a parking space in his 2001 Ford Ranger truck when it struck a parked 2006 Chevrolet HHR SUV owned by Earlene Brown Harper of…
However one feels about legalizing the sale of alcoholic beverages in Randolph County, at least we get the right to decide. That wasn’t the case when the Legislature passed a law a couple of years ago allowing municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more to call for a vote to allow for the sale…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEWEY WHALEY, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Dewey Whaley, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 19th day of Sept. 2012, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given…
FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness described in and secured by that certain mortgage executed by Charles L. Griffith and Arline A. Griffith to Bank of America, N. A. dated June 2, 2009, and Recorded in Book 545, Page 421 of the records in the Office of the Judge…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE ESTATE OF CEROY C. PATE NOTICE OF HEARING TO PROBATE WILL TO: Mary Holmes 16711 Bouldgreen Houston, TX 77084 Carol Powell 106 Alford St. LaGrange, GA 30240 Children of Ceroy Pate Jr. Names and address unknown Last known address: Carthage, NC Kaza Hishida 907 Joseph…
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA Default having been made pursuant to the terms of that certain mortgage executed by Daniel E. Gunter and Katrina D. Gunter, Wife to New South Federal Savings Bank dated March 4, 1999, said mortgage being recorded in Book 378, Page 126 in the Office of the Judge…
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following vehicle has been abandoned at Extreme Watercraft, 130 Woodland Dr., Woodland. 1997 Harley Davidson VIN# 1HD1FMR13VY624033 You have until Sept. 29, 2012, to claim. Extreme Watercraft (39)
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following vehicle has been abandoned at 449 Co. Rd. 632, Roanoke, AL and will be sold on Nov. 5, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. at the same address. 1990 Toyota Corolla VIN# 1NXAE94A7LZ077017 Larry D. Wilson 449 Co. Rd. 632 Roanoke, AL 36274 (39-40p)
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS REROOFING VARIOUS BUILDINGS AT RANDOLPH-ROANOKE CAREER TECHNICAL CENTER FOR THE RANDOLPH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION WEDOWEE, ALABAMA PROJECT NO. 12-170A Separate sealed bid proposals will be received for the above referenced project by Mr. Dewey Paul Gay, Superintendent, at The Randolph County Board of Education, Wedowee, Alabama, until 2:00 PM, Thursday, October…
The well was dry. I did not have writer’s block, I had writer’s empty. I knew that I could write another beach column but recent storms have washed away a lot of the beach, which leaves not much to write about. Then the letter arrived. My buddy Gary, down at the University of South Florida,…
Advice to apprentice hold-up guys and gals: The next time you hit a convenience store, look straight into the surveillance camera and smile. That should enable you to execute your robbery anonymously. I’m told on good authority–the good authority being the folks in charge of driver’s licenses in New Jersey–that a smile can throw off…
A question circling around Goat Hill in recent weeks is whether or not the State Ethics Commission or the U.S. Attorney’s office will initiate a probe into the documented evidence that the Attorney General Luther Strange campaign received a $100,000 donation from the Poarch Creek Indians in 2010 and it is now pay-back time. The…
(ROANOKE) Nathaniel “Catfish” Keith Sr., 80, of Roanoke died Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, at Wedowee Hospital. The funeral will be at New Hope Methodist Church, 875 Hwy. 100 S., Bowdon, Ga., on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m. EDT. Mr. Keith was born March 13, 1932, in Randolph County, Ala., the second child of the…
(WOODLAND) Funeral services for Kevin Matthew Sears, 20, of Woodland will be at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, at Bear Creek Methodist Church with the Rev. Wendell Ford and Jake Brown officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Sears died Monday, Sept. 24, at his home. He Sears was born March 19,…