WEDOWEE–During the last Randolph County Commission meeting, the commissioners learned that the state highway department had officially reclassified the northern part of County Road 59 as a major collector.The commissioners approved adding the northern part of County Road 59 (from Woodland to County Road 82) to the list for federal aid resurfacing, and to start…

City attorney Clay Tinney told the Roanoke City Council some progress has been made on the city gaining ownership of the Louina Street bridge that belongs to CSX Railroad. They are working to gain ownership of the bridge so ATRIP funding or Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program funding can be obtained and used to…

WADLEY––Gene Crouch, general manager of Wadley Holdings, updated the Wadley Council on the company’s current status at the last council meeting. Most products are sold January through July so fewer employees are working right now, about 60, but they will definitely ramp up in October or November, he said. “It has been a very successful…

Municipal elections are coming up and taxpayers would likely be interested in what their mayors and city councils make. In most cases these are considered part-time jobs. Woodland’s council makes the least and Roanoke’s makes the most. City Clerk Lisa Copeland said that they don’t do it for the money. The mayor in Woodland makes…

After two weeks of unexplained fires in Roanoke, a man was arrested on Thursday evening of last week, charged with starting a fire in the kudzu near the railroad tracks. Mario Jerel Broom, 24, of Schuessler Street is charged with reckless endangerment and willfully setting fire to brush after a witness reported seeing Broom set…

Crystal Lake, which provides the city’s drinking water, is maintaining at about 28 feet, close to where it should be this time of year, according to Brent Wilson. Wilson, the field supervisor, told the members of the city of Roanoke Water, Sewage, Gas and Filter Plant Board at Monday’s meeting that no water restrictions need…

Just as they did when school let out for the summer in May, driving conditions changed this week. The new school year means young people are out and about in concentrated numbers, particularly before the first bell in the morning and as school lets out in the afternoon. That means greater awareness and caution is…

OK folks, listen up. Summer on the beaches of the Redneck Riviera. Some folks just don’t know how to act. There is this widely held opinion that the good ole boys and girls who come down to the coast are an ill-mannered lot, pushy and such. It ain’t so. I have been a frequent visitor…

Alabama votes September 18 to decide the fate of a constitutional amendment that would strip $437 million from the Alabama Trust Fund (ATF) to patch a $437-million hole in the state’s general fund budget over the next three fiscal years. The amendment authorizes the withdrawal from a trust account Alabama set up in 1985 to…

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by MARLON L. STEWART, a Single Person, to SMALL TOWN BANK on August 26, 2011, said Mortgage being recorded in Book 566, Page 798 in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama; and…

United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Notice of Availability Construction of Poultry Houses Finding Of No Significant Impact (FONSI) The United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (FSA) issues FONSI for the construction of four broiler houses at 10811 County Road 16, in Sectionl2, Township 22 South, Range 13 East, in Randolph…

LEGAL NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held before the Department of Finance of the State of Alabama in the office of the Legal Advisor to the Finance Director in the State Capitol, City of Montgomery, Alabama at 2:00 p.m. on September 5, 2012, to determine…

LEGAL NOTICE Project No. RCP 56-235-12 The Randolph County Commission is considering the feasibility of patching, widening, leveling, resurfacing, paint striping and pavement markers on Randolph County Highway Number 52 commencing at the intersection of County Road 87 at Omaha, thence continue easterly along County Road 52 a distance of 2.700 miles to the Georgia…

RESOLUTION 1009 WHEREAS, a regular municipal election has been called to be held on the 28 day of August, 2012, and a runoff election to be held, if necessary, on the 9th day of November, 2012, and WHEREAS, Section 11-46-27 of the Alabama Code of 1975, and regulations adopted pursuant thereto provide, in part, that…

STATE OF ALABAMA PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR WHEREAS, the Alabama Legislature at its Regular Session of 2012 ordered an election to be held on a certain proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, set out herein as Act No. 2012-490; and in accordance with the provisions of Section 284, as amended by Amendment…

STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES BREWER FULLER, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of James Brewer Fuller, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 17th day of Aug., 2012, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…

STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH PROBATE COURT NOTICE OF HEARING TO PROBATE WILL IN RE: ESTATE OF ZOLA DANIEL TO:  Raoa Nicola Najmeh, Damascus, Syria Abd-Al-Nasser Nicola Najmeh, Damascus, Syria Abraham Najmeh, Damascus, Syria Semer Najmeh, Damascus, Syria Nabih Najmeh, Damascus, Syria Brandy Najmeh, Dunn, North Carolina Joseph Najmah, Dunn, North Carolina You are…

NOTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ELECTION FOR THE STATE OF ALABAMA Pursuant to Section 17-9-5 Code of Alabama 1975, I, George Diamond, Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, do hereby give Notice of Election to be held in Randolph County, Alabama, and by virtue of the power vested in me as Judge of Probate of…