(STOCKBRIDGE, Ga.) Audrey Beaird Rushton, 82, of Stockbridge, Ga., died Jan. 19, 2012, at Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, Ga.A memorial service will be at Antioch Congregational Christian Church in the Doublehead community on Sunday, Feb. 5, at 1 p.m. Ken Roach will give the eulogy.Mrs. Rushton was born Aug. 29, 1929, in Manchester,…
(OPELIKA) Easter Estelle Mitchell Hartt, 84, of Opelika was born in Randolph County on April 17, 1927, and died at her home on Jan. 19, 2012. Funeral services will be Sunday, Jan. 22, at 2 p.m. in the Chapel at Fredericks Funeral Home, with Brother Fred Woodall and Brother Robert Rhodes officiating. Interment will follow…
(WOODLAND) Vivian Andrade Shenker of Woodland died Jan. 16, 2012. She was 76. Funeral services will be Friday, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of Rainwater Funeral Home, Bowdon, Ga. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from noon until the funeral hour. Mrs. Shenker was born on Oct. 2, 1935,…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Samuel Earl McCain Sr., 79, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, at his home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. EST Friday at the Hunter-Allen-Myhand Chapel with the Rev. Charles Greathouse officiating. Interment will be in Hillview East Cemetery. Mr. McCain was born Dec. 4, 1932, in Wedowee, son of…
(MARIETTA, Ga.) Samuel Clifford Monroe Turner, 80, of Marietta, Ga., died Tuesday, Jan.17, 2012. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at Haney Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Franklin McPherson officiating. The body will lie in state from 10 to 11 a.m. at the church. Interment will be 2 p.m. CST…
(MOUNT VERNON, Ohio) Anne S. Brumley, 74, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, at the Emeritus at HillenVale in Mount Vernon. The family will observe a private service in Atlanta. She was born on March 24, 1937, in Atlanta to the late Allen and Lillian Vaughn Scarborough. Anne graduated from Carrollton High…
The field is set for the March 13 Presidential Preference Primary and Statewide Primary. The political parties run the primaries, and voters must declare whether they are Democrats or Republicans before receiving their ballot and voting. If necessary, the primary runoff will be April 24. The general election is Nov. 6. In local races incumbent…
BIRMINGHAM––A federal judge last Wednesday sentenced former Meadowcraft Inc. executive Larry Gene Maynor to 2 ½ years in prison for fraud totaling more than $5 million, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley. U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced Maynor on a charge of wire fraud and…
Congressman Mike Rogers congratulated the Wedowee Volunteer Fire Department for receiving a $123,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, funding Rogers said would help the Randolph County fire department purchase a new firefighting vehicle. Rogers said the grant should be awarded under the 2011 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, a federal program that…
WEDOWEE–Wedowee Town Council approved the purchase of a dump truck for the town’s street department at its Jan. 3 meeting. The truck will cost $31,012 off the state bid list and includes a 12-foot dump body on a one-ton Ford chassis to be used for light hauling. It has a gas engine. Mayor Tim Coe…
Two rural grocery stores were burglarized this week in the county. On Jan. 9, someone broke into Rock Mills Variety Store at 66171 Hwy. 22 and took cigarettes, drinks, food, motor oil, cleaning products and paper goods. Then on Jan. 15, B’s Grocery at Woodland was burglarized. The thieves took 14 cartons of cigarettes, rolls…
Three Roanoke men were arrested for making methamphetamine in Roanoke’s Mill Village on Thursday of last week. According to investigator Shannon Laney of 5th Judicial Circuit Narcotics Unit, they had received complaints about the smell of ether in the area around 711 West Ave. Investigators knocked on the door of the house and smelled it…
As Congress begins a new session, expectations are low that anything substantive will get done in this, an election year. Even if it were not an election year, expectations are low, with a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showing that 84 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. An election year always…
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Benjamin Franklin “Fermented beverages are at the center of religions around the world.” Patrick McGovern, University of Pennsylvania So it would stand to reason that I learned to like beer at a church event. A pre-game chili dog and beer party for…
It appears the state will face this coming October with a $400-million hole and the possibility of level-funded general fund and education budgets…unless a miracle shows up, and that isn’t likely. It appears the legislative and executive leadership in Montgomery do not intend to propose any increase in taxes–period. And there are no miracles in…
There’s an old bad joke about a congressman who spoke on an Indian (excuse me, Native American) reservation, and with each ringing statement the crowd responded with “Umgawa.” The congressman thought that was the indigenous equivalent of “Right on!” until his hosts took him on a tour of the cattle barns. As he tiptoed through…
Video of LSU and Alabama fans posing with Harvey Updyke Jr. at the championship game in New Orleans and obtaining this criminal’s autograph makes one wonder at the sanity of those walking the earth. Updyke poisoned some beautiful old trees that had graced Auburn for many years and were part of Auburn fans’ tradition. And…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARTHA K. MCMANUS, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Martha K. McManus, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 11th day of Jan., 2012, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF OTTO EDGAR FOWLER, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Otto Edgar Fowler, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 11th day of Jan., 2012, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: THE ESTATE OF MINNIE BELL FARRAR, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS Take notice that Letters of Administration having been granted to Larry Joe Burgess, as Administrator of the Estate of Minnie Bell Farrar, on the 12th day of Jan., 2012, by the Honorable Judge of Probate…