Alabama voters, as they should have done, passed the only ballot measure up for a vote in yesterday’s referendum. By an overwhelming margin, voters insured that the state will have enough money in its General Fund to continue operating. That means that programs and services that are so critical to so many will continue for…
As most of my small but intensely ambivalent readership knows, over the past few years I have been spending significant hunks of time down along the coast. As a result, my general appearance is such that tourists with their crisp clothes and new beach toys take one look and decide I am a local. So…
Summer 2012 is gone. I hate to see it go. Before long I will have to pull out winter clothes and put up summer clothes and shoes. I realize most people do not share my feelings but I love the summer, no matter how hot it gets. We are edging into fall when we have…
Harvey Updyke is no Tommy Lewis, but he deserves a fair trial. In an interview a few months back on Paul Finebaum’s radio talk show Updyke compared himself to Lewis, the Crimson Tide player who came off the bench in the 1954 Cotton Bowl and tackled a Rice University runner destined for the end zone.…
More Randolph County voters than expected turned out on a rainy Tuesday to vote yes with the rest of the state on the proposed constitutional amendment to transfer a total of more than $437 million from the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund over a three-year period to keep state agencies operating. The voters…
At last week’s meeting of the Randolph County Board of Education, system technology coordinator Deborah McManus shared the good news via a Power Point presentation that Randolph County Schools–and all of the system’s individual schools–made AYP (annual yearly progress) on standardized tests. McManus said this year school systems did not have to increase their goals,…
The town of Wadley shut down its court system April 9, 2009 to save money but it is now likely to start it up again, Mayor Jim Dabbs said. The council discussed this at its last council meeting but has not passed an ordinance to bring it back. Research done the past four months indicates…
The Randolph County Animal Shelter recently invited some guests to tour the shelter so they could see how the shelter spends its money. Punch and cookies were available but the real draw were some gorgeous puppies, dogs, kittens and cats. At one point it looked like commissioner Terry Lovvorn might take a puppy home. Almost…
WEDOWEE–“The stuff is there, so take precautions,” Dr. Marty McIntyre told members and guests of the Upper Tallapoosa Clean Water Partnership Committee during their meeting on Thursday. McIntyre was referring to the so-called flesh-eating bacteria like those that attacked University of West Georgia graduate student Aimee Copeland May 1 after she fell into the Little…
WADLEY–On Friday around 11 p.m., a street fight ensued on Cooledge Circle, which resulted in Randy Preston Weaver, 24, of Cooledge Street being stabbed several times in the torso. Preston was life-flighted to University Hospital in Birmingham to undergo extensive surgery. Wadley police, along with Chambers County Sheriff’s Department and their K-9 unit, started a…
Last week Ryan Prince, a wildlife biologist with the Forestry Department, and Matthew Lowe, forester in Randolph and Clay counties, presented Stan Roark with a Champion Tree designation for a Witch Hazel tree on his property. Prince said the tree has a circumference of 13 inches, a height of 32 feet and a spread of…
WEDOWEE–Randolph County Schools Superintendent Paul Gay saved some big news for the end of Thursday’s regular meeting–he resigned. After all the other business was done, Gay told the board members and audience of a job offer he has with the State Department of Education. He said it has been a pleasure working with the board,…
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated February 12, 2008, executed by Kevin D. Ward, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Bank , FSB, which mortgage was recorded on February 12, 2008, in Mortgage Book 528, Page 120,…
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 Tim Pilgrim, an unmarried man, on the 17th day of December, 2001 to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County,…
PUBLICATION ON ADOPTION (ANY UNKNOWN OR UNDISCLOSED PARENT) In the Probate Court of Madison County, Alabama. Case No. 7007A IN: THE MATTER OF ADOPTION OF: BABY GIRL CLARK Notice to any Unknown or Undisclosed Parent of: Baby Girl Clark You will take notice that a petition for the adoption of Baby Girl Clark, a Minor…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: BARRY FULLER NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION FOR SUMMARY DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Summary Distribution of the above-named estate has been filed by Helen Fuller on the 11th day of Sept., 2012, and that 30 days after the notice of…
NOTICE OF COMMENT PERIOD AND PUBLIC HOUSING Roanoke Housing Authority is developing its FYE2012-2013 Annual Plans in accordance with the QWHRA of 1998. It will identify and govern future administrative and modernization activities. The Authority will begin a 45 day comment period on September 20, 2012. Interested parties may review the plan and offer comment…
PUBLIC SALE Stack & Pack Self Storage, pursuant to the Alabama Provisions of the Self Storage Act (08-15-33), 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 October 30, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. on the following…
PUBLIC SALE Stack & Pack Self Storage, pursuant to the Alabama Provisions of the Self Storage Act (08-15-33), 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 October 30, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. on the following…
PUBLIC SALE Stack & Pack Self Storage, pursuant to the Alabama Provisions of the Self Storage Act (08-15-33), 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 October 30, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. on the following…