(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Willie B. McCollough, 95, of LaGrange, Ga., died Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, at Hospice LaGrange.Mr. McCollough was born July 1, 1916, in Randolph County, Ala., son of the late Zachariah Newton and Sudie Mae Shaddix McCollough. He was a member of Hilyer Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon and was retired…
(JACKSONVILLE) Funeral service for Nina Blair Howell Sullivan, 93, will be Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, at 2 p.m. at K.L. Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Center Chapel with the Rev. Bob Ford officiating. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery. Mrs. Sullivan died Monday, Dec. 5, at Jacksonville Medical Center. Mrs. Sullivan was a member of…
Two Randolph County farmers suffered significant losses to fire over the past week. On the afternoon of Dec. 1, a large barn at the home of Harold and Delores Harmon on County Road 56 in the Ava community was destroyed by fire. Lost in the barn were three tractors, a dually truck, ATV, hay and…
Woodland The Town of Woodland will have its annual Christmas parade Saturday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. The theme this year is “Santa Land.” All churches, clubs, groups, antique cars, tractors, horses, golf carts, motorcycles, fire departments and school bands, as well as veterans and soldiers are encouraged to join in the fun and enter…
The chairmen of the Randolph County Republican and Democratic executive committees are signing up candidates for local offices to compete in the March 13 primary. Republican chair Todd Freeman started qualifying candidates Nov. 14 for the March 13 election. The Republican qualification deadline ends at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 13. Democratic qualification ends the same day…
Roanoke Municipal Judge Sandy Holliday told Roanoke City Council members in a recent workshop that everything was going fine with the city court system except probation, which is now being rectified. Accompanying him to the meeting was Randall Hampson, director of Business Growth and Development with Providence Community Corrections, which began working with Court Clerk…
A Wedowee man found guilty of robbing a New Site business at gunpoint earlier this year was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week. Judge Ray Martin sentenced 32-year-old Troy Antoine Knight of Wedowee, who was found guilty of robbing the Foodland grocery store in New Site on Oct. 12, to life in…
Superintendent Chuck Marcum told the Roanoke Board of Education in its last meeting that Dr. David Crouse has been working with Handley Middle School principal Linda Crim on the school improvement plan, and they came up with a good one. Board president Penny Bradshaw said she had studied the plan and asked for a motion…
CONTINUATION MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by HOOTON PROPERTIES, INC., to SMALL TOWN BANK on February 18, 2010, said Mortgage being recorded in Book 554, Page 227 in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama; and SMALL TOWN…
CONTINUATION MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain Mortgage executed by TRANQUILITY, LLC., to SMALL TOWN BANK on June, 30, 2008, said Mortgage being recorded in Book 533, Page 781 and corrected in Book 534, Page 246; that certain Mortgage executed on September 2, 2009…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Mark A. Pike, married person and wife, Stacy Pike, to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., on the 30th day of October, 2008, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County,…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jason H. Wadkins, a married man, and Jessica N. Wadkins, his wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc., on the 1st day of November, 2006, said mortgage recorded…
PUBLIC NOTICE – 212 ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL (UIC) PERMIT AND REQUEST FOR COMMENTS RANDOLPH COUNTY Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc. c/o Jay Carter, 1608 13th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, UIC Permit Number ALSI9956001 has applied for the issuance of a permit for a Class Injection Well(s)…
IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA CASE NO. JU-2011-91.01 IN THE MATTER OF: SHELLY NICOLE EVANS, a minor (a/k/a Shelly Nicole Kirk) NOTICE OF PETITION A Petition to Relieve Minor from Disability of Non Age was filed on Oct. 21, 2011, in the Juvenile Court of Randolph County. Notice of this Petition shall…
ADVERTISMENT FOR COMPLETION LEGAL NOTICE In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama, 1975, notice is hereby given that M.J. Brooks & Son Construction Inc., Contractor, has completed the Contract for Renovations to Randolph County High School and Mechanical Upgrades to Rock Mills Middle School for the Randolph County Board of Education, Wedowee,…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF FAYE P. DILLARD, DECEASED Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 2nd day of Dec., 2011, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of the Probate Court of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons…
It is a holiday rarely observed, but today, the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, it deserves remembrance. The early morning sneak attack by the naval aviation forces of Japan was devastating. It was designed to cripple the U.S. Fleet stationed there so Japan could continue its expansion in the Pacific…
From time to time my buddy Gary down at the University of South Florida sends me copies of Sunshine State articles he has come across in his research. No comments included, just the clippings, as if to say, “and you think Alabama is bad”? I’m gonna share a few with you. Aware, no doubt, of…
Paul Hubbert has spent his career trying to improve education in Alabama and has been called in political circles the state’s “real governor” but the one time he ran for the office he was defeated by a man who didn’t attend a day of college. This past week the Alabama Education Association (AEA) he has…
A lot of loyal readers have been asking me to reveal my choice for president of the United States, even though we don’t yet know who the Republican nominee will be. “If we don’t know whom you’re for, how can we decide whom we’re against?” they say, which makes about as much sense as anything…