ORDINANCE 2012-05-01An Ordinance of the City of Roanoke, Alabama, to exempt certain “covered items” from the municipal sales and use tax during the first full weekend of August 2012, as authorized by Act 2006-574, generally referred to as the States sales Tax Holiday Legislation.Be it ordained by the City Council of Roanoke, Alabama as follows:Section…
For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those determined not to understand, no explanation is possible. Our legislative delegation doesn’t understand–or doesn’t want to understand–when it comes to the widespread opposition to SB 486, SB 476 and SB 487, the bills changing the distribution of tobacco tax funds in Randolph, Clay and Chambers…
The Fourth of July crowd was trickling away a couple of years ago when I got an e-mail from my old friend Ted, a former JSU history professor who retired to sunny Fort Myers, Florida in time for the fifth worst hurricane in U.S. history. Ted, a Citadel graduate and a Southern gentleman of the…
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916) was an educator, prison reformer, writer and an outspoken proponent of education for women. She was involved with the founding of institutions that became the University of West Alabama and the University of Montevallo and with innovations in education for women and African Americans during segregation. Alabama’s only women’s prison in…
This year’s All-County Baseball team consists of 22 of the county’s best players from Handley, Randolph County, Woodland and Wadley. The players were selected based on season statistics, work ethic and leadership qualities. Player of the Year The Woodland Bobcats recently completed one of the most successful seasons in recent history by making it to…
Sometimes as you grow older you miss the things you did when you were younger. I believe the word for this is nostalgia. Camping was always one of my favorite things to do growing up. We went as a family many times when I was but a lad. Sometimes we went tent camping in the…
As the calendar flips over to June, the thoughts naturally turn to college football. Actually our thoughts never leave college football with the year-round emphasis on football recruiting and the passion we all share for the greatest game on earth. With the SEC Football Media Days a little less than two months away, here are…
(HEFLIN) The funeral for the Rev. Jimmy Ray Nixon, 67, of Heflin will be Wednesday, May 30, 2012, at 2 p.m. at the chapel of Usrey Funeral Home of Talladega. The Revs. Pete West, Gary Ward and Lenox Mallory will officiate and burial will be in Eureka United Methodist Cemetery. He died Friday, May 25,…
(WEDOWEE) Walter Jasper “W.J.” Snow, a resident of Ava Hills Assisted Living in Wedowee, formerly of Bowdon, Ga., died May 27, 2012. He was 83. The funeral will be Wednesday, May 30, at 2 p.m. EDT at the chapel of Rainwater Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Bowdon City Cemetery. Mr. Snow was born on…
(WEDOWEE) Vickie Denise Maples, 42, of Wedowee died suddenly Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Memorial services were Friday, May 25, at 6 p.m. EDT at Shiloh Baptist Church, 9060 Ephesus Church Rd., Villa Rica, Ga. According to the family’s wishes, her body was cremated. She was born Jan. 25, 1970, in Atlanta, daughter of Patricia Ann…
(ROANOKE) Funeral service for Annie Rea Heard, 84, of Roanoke were Saturday, May 26, 2012, at 11 a.m. at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Jeffery Rosser officiating. Burial was at Peace & Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Heard died Sunday, May 20, in Wedowee. Miss Heard was born July 28, 1927, the…
(JACKSONVILLE) The funeral for Mavis Reaves Collier, 92, of Jacksonville will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at Gray Brown-Service Mortuary with the Revs. Lamar Reaves and Ridley Herren officiating. Burial will follow at Anniston Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Collier died Saturday night,…
(ROANOKE) The funeral for Joyce Allen Cobb, 75, of Roanoke will be Monday, May 28, at 2 p.m. EDT at Happy Valley Baptist Church with the Rev. John Samanie officiating. Burial will be in Osanippa Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Cobb died Friday, May 25, at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. Born in Chambers County…
(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for Lois Nix James, 90, of Lineville were Sunday, May 27, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home in Lineville with the Revs. Jimmy Brand, Braden Morrison and Scott Jordan officiating. Burial will follow in Union Baptist Church (Motley) Cemetery. Mrs. James died Friday, May 25, at Lineville Health and Rehabilitation…
(WEDOWEE) Funeral services for Dewey Davis Whaley, 83, of Wedowee will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 27, 2012, at Benefield Funeral Chapel with the Rev. David Glass officiating. Burial will follow in Wedowee City Cemetery. Mr. Whaley died Thursday, May 24, at East Alabama Medical Center. Mr. Whaley was born March 8, 1929, the…
(PHENIX CITY) Elsie Moncus Bassett, 96, of Phenix City died Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at Columbus Hospice House. The funeral will be Saturday, May 26, at 1 p.m. EDT in the chapel of Striffler-Hamby Mortuary, 3770 Hwy. 431 N. and 280 W., Phenix City, with burial to follow in Lakeview Memory Gardens. Mrs. Bassett was…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Billy Lake, 47, of Roanoke, will be at 3 p.m., Saturday, May 26, 2012, at Benefield Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Greg Norred and Rev. Matthew Birchfield officiating. Burial will follow in Liberty Grove Congregational Methodist Cemetery. Mr. Lake died Monday, May 21, 2012 in Pensacola, Florida. Mr. Lake was born…
(WHITESBURG, Ga.) Charles Darrell Hendrix, 70, of Whitesburg, Ga., died Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. The funeral will be Friday, May 25, at 2 p.m. from the chapel of Jones-Wynn Funeral Home in Villa Rica, Ga. Interment will follow in Faith Baptist Church Cemetery. He was born June 14,…
(JACKSONVILLE) Funeral services for Edna Gay Daniel, 89, will be Friday, May 25, 2012, 2 p.m. at Usrey Funeral Home in Talladega with Dr. Jonathan Watts officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died May 21 in Jacksonville. Miss Daniel was a native of Randolph County and lived most of her adult life…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Camilla Ann Smith Jackson, 65, of Roanoke will be Saturday, May 26, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Dick Waldrep officiating. Burial will follow at Rock Springs Christian Church Cemetery. Mrs. Jackson died Wednesday, May 23, at Stringfellow Memorial Hospital in Anniston. A lifelong Roanoke resident,…