I remember well the tornadoes in the state of Alabama in 1974. I was 13 years of age. From our front yard we looked across the Luxapalila Creek bottom. We were eyewitnesses of the massive tornado that destroyed Guin and Yampertown (Twin), Alabama. The next day we were eyewitnesses of the devastation. Several persons we knew…
Like famous writers Harper Lee and Truman Capote, he comes from Monroeville. In a recent visit to Handley Middle School Mark Childress told students if he had grown up in Cam Newton’s town he might have wanted to play football, but he grew up in Monroeville and became a writer. Monroeville is famous because of…
A group of Red Cross volunteers from Randolph County traveled to St. Clair County Friday to provide disaster relief to victims of the powerful tornadoes that killed 13 people as they roared through Shoal Creek Valley near Ashville. Other groups from Randolph County assisted in other parts of the state, including hard-hit areas of Calhoun…
(WADLEY) Johnnie Kate Smith, 88, a resident of Coolidge Street, Wadley, died at Roanoke Health Care Center on Sunday afternoon, May 1, 2011. Services for Mrs. Smith will be Friday, May 6, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Wadley, at 1 p.m. Mrs. Smith will be in state at the church one hour prior to the…
Sunday night the lyric, “The Wicked Witch is Dead,” kept playing in my head. Osama bin Laden was not a witch but one of the most evil men to walk this earth. He went the way evil men do. It made me deliriously happy when the announcement came, and I make no apology for that.…
WEDOWEE––Myrtice Arrington busily filled out job applications. At Friday’s job fair she said she is looking for anything she can do that will pay her bills. She was laid off from then Plantation Patterns in May of 2009 and has been looking for a job for 23 months. “It’s rough,” she said of living on…
Well-known community leader and pastor Steve Dean turned himself in at the Randolph County Jail Tuesday on charges of sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old, according to Roanoke Police Chief Adam Melton. Dean, pastor of rapidly growing Community Life Church, said on Thursday: “My innocence will be proven and on the…
It’s getting harder and harder to be a skeptic in this era of high-tech achievements that border on science fiction, but if you’re creative enough and audacious enough, you can doubt anything. President Obama has just tossed out two pieces of red meat for the skeptics. One is his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate, designed to…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Phillip Taylor and his wife, Lisa Taylor, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Wilmington Finance, a division of AIG Federal Savings Bank, on the 27th day of June, 2005, said mortgage…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Christopher C. Siggers, an unmarried man, to First Citizens Bank, on the 8th day of March, 2001, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book…
NOTICE OF COMPLETION In accordance with Chapter 1, Title 39, Code of Alabama 1975, notice is hereby given that Mastin’s Inc., Contractor, has completed the Contract for Construction of Water Filter Plant Emergency Generator Project for The Utilities Board of the City of Roanoke, Alabama; Roanoke, Alabama, Owner, and have made request for the final…
PUBLIC NOTICE The Randolph County Commission is studying the feasibility of closing a section of roadway in the Morrison Crossroad Community being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of Old Highway 431 and County Road 251, for a point of beginning, thence run northerly along County Road 251 a distance of 0.123…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: ESTATE OF CURTIS G. CALHOUN, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters Testamentary on the estate of Curtis G. Calhoun, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 26th day of April, 2011, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SARA MARIE VAUGHN, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Sara Marie Vaughn, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 27th day of April, 2011, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: CHRISTINE JOINER, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters Testamentary on the estate of Christine Joiner, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 26th day of April, 2011, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having…
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: WALTER PHILLIPS, DECEASED NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letters Testamentary on the estate of Walter Phillips, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 28th day of April, 2011, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having…
FOR SALE BY SEALED BIDS Randolph County Board of Education May 4 – May 20, 2011 Inspection from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. (Monday-Friday) Items located at RRCTC (Trade School) Bids will be opened at 2 p.m. on May 23, 2011 Randolph-Roanoke Career Technology Center holds the right to refuse any and all bids. Bids may be…
In the “RSA Advisor”, a monthly newsletter of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, David Bronner, the CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, will take on all who disagree with his views and policies. A year or so back I ended up his target over the issue of construction of an RSA building which, along…
The Randolph County Learning Center Bike Hike Warm-Up will be Friday from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at WELR. With the theme of a beach party, participants will ride stationary bicycles in front of the radio for pledges throughout the day. Check The Randolph Leader to see a listing of riders and the times they are scheduled…
I like polls. Even though the idea of being able to ask a few people what they think and from that piddle of the population determine what everyone thinks just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, I still like ’em. So whenever a new poll comes out I am inclined to read the…