Randolph County EMA learned last week that it is the recipient of a FEMA mitigation grant that will provide 18 storm shelters to local families.EMA director Donnie Knight said that after last year’s tornados, grant money became available for all counties. The possibility of this grant was advertised, and these 18 recipients responded to the…
WEDOWEE–Wedowee Council members discussed the redistricting process at their Feb. 7 regular meeting. Mayor Tim Coe said while the population has changed by only 5, the townspeople have moved around a lot. The target is to have 165 people per council district. The council members discussed finding a good time to ask someone from East…
WEDOWEE–“I don’t want to argue and bicker,” Commissioner Lathonia Wright told a frequent visitor to Randolph County Commission meetings. Jeff Nolen of Roanoke spoke before the commission at its Feb. 13 meeting regarding earlier discussions about what to do with the county building that the board of education just vacated. Putting individual offices for the…
WEDOWEE–A Temple, Ga., woman was arrested shortly after allegedly stealing a truck in Wedowee. According to the reports from Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, Amy Johnson Mann, 34, was arrested on Feb. 16 and charged with theft of property. The day before, Lloyd Miller, who lives on Highway 48, east of Wedowee, reported the theft of…
The Randolph County Democratic Party Executive Committee invites all interested persons to a Democratic Party forum at the former Hub Restaurant in Wedowee on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. All Democratic Party candidates are invited to come speak at the forum, and everyone interested in the upcoming election is invited to meet the candidates.…
A report released last week by the Pew Center for the States reveals that there are at least 1.8 million names on voter registration rolls nationwide that shouldn’t be there. These are the names of voters who have died. Actually, there are many more who shouldn’t be there. Another 2.75 million who are presumably still…
It started out so normal. Republican candidates said things they shouldn’t have said and which made no sense when they said it. Democrats delighted in what the GOP was doing while observers waited for the Democrats to do the same thing. Most TV shows were reruns, even when the schedule said they weren’t (“Honey, didn’t…
Five years ago I probably wrote the only editorial in an Alabama newspaper supporting the 62-percent pay raise state legislators gave themselves on a voice vote that shielded them from public scrutiny of how they voted. It technically was not a salary increase because the only salary they were paid then and now is an…
We have a major crisis in this state when there is talk of shutting down four of six major mental hospitals, releasing almost 13,000 prisoners and cutting Medicaid, the program for the elderly, disabled and poor. The corrections and mental health elements are safety issues. They have the impact of making all of us feel…
NOTICE OF EXPLANATION To: All interested Agencies, Groups and Individuals This is to give notice that the Randolph County Commission has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Orders 11988 and 11990 in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Procedures for Making Determinations on Flood plain Management, to determine the potential…
NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS February 22, 2012 Randolph County Commission P. O. Box 249 Wedowee, AL 36278 (256) 357-4980 TO ALL INTERESTED AGENCIES, GROUPS AND PERSONS: These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by the…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Christina W. Sherard and William Scott Sherard, husband and wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation DBA ditech.com, on the 12th day of April, 2004, said mortgage recorded…
NOTICE The City of Roanoke is requesting Bids on a Knuckleboom Loader Truck. For bid specifications call Donnie Cash at (334)863-7666. Bids are to be turned in at the Roanoke City Hall. Deadline for bids to be received is March 1, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Bids will be opened on March 2, 2012 at 10:00…
INVITATION TO BID The City of Roanoke will be accepting sealed bids for the demolition of a nuisance property located on Main Street in the downtown part of Roanoke. The property was formerly known as the “Snax Deli “building. The contractor shall be responsible for the removal of all debris and other material causing the…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Fred L. Pope, Jr. also known as Fred Pope, and wife, Stephanie Pope to The First National Bank of Talladega, Talladega, Alabama, a national banking association, on the 26th day of April, 2006, said mortgage…
NOTICE The Probate Judge as Chief Election Officer makes it known in each voting precinct that, as required, Randolph County, Alabama, is in compliance with the availability of registration and voting aids for all handicapped and elderly individuals, as stated in the Code of Alabama, Section 21-4-23(b). (8)
Click on the “2012 voters list” under Related documents below to view/download the voters list. This is a searchable document so you can check to see if you are currently on the active voters list in Randolph County. Anyone planning to vote March 13 must be registered to vote by Friday, March 2. You can…
The Handley Tigers are moving on to the regional round of the 3A state basketball playoffs in Montgomery after soundly defeating Clay County, 53-30, Friday night in Roanoke. The sub-regional round victory was another intense defensive effort from the surging Tigers. “I definitely was pleased,” Handley head coach Clifton Drummond said. “We took care of…
The Randolph County Tigers’ remarkable season came to an end Friday night with a 58-53 loss to Holy Family in Wedowee. Randolph County nipped at the heels of Holy Family through most of the game and had a chance to pull ahead late, but couldn’t get the shot to fall. “We played extremely hard and…
The Woodland Lady Bobcats season came to a halt Monday in Jacksonville in the regional round of the state playoffs with a loss to second-ranked Section, 51-49. Woodland easily defeated Vincent Thursday night in the regional round, 68-16, at home to advance to the regional bracket. Lady Bobcats head coach Larry Strain said if the…