(ROANOKE) Funeral services for Jimmy Alton Driver, 70, of Roanoke will be Friday, March 11, 2011, at 2 p.m. at Big Springs Baptist Church with the Revs. Scott Whaley and Steve Dempsey officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. _Mr. Driver died Wednesday, March 9, East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika.Mr. Driver was born…
Rev. Jeffery Rosser was preaching hard in the pulpit of St. Paul Baptist Church Dec. 12. He was almost through, turned and just fell. He didn’t remember anything until he woke up in East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika. “I felt like I always felt. I didn’t know anything till I woke up and the…
During the summer of 1921, a hotbed of right-wing German nationalists looked to crush the young democracy centered in Berlin. A rising politician, Adolf Hitler, and his growing Nazi party looked for options to carry his movement to the rest of Germany. On July 11 he seized the moment and announced he would lead the…
Drivers show little interest as Mark Haeussler and his daughter, Tiffany, stand in the road operating bright yellow equipment. But he said some seem to be informed, asking if what they are doing is linked to planned new water lines in certain areas. It is. Some of these residents have suffered a great deal over…
ROCK STAND–An early Friday morning fire destroyed El Bethel Baptist Church. The church is located north of Roanoke on U.S. 431. The fire was reported a little before 3 a.m. by travelers from Illinois who were driving past and spotted the flames. A state trooper happened to be traveling 431 a few miles behind them…
EPHESUS, Ga.–A Heard County, Ga., deputy was killed and a Woodland man charged following an automobile accident Thursday evening. According to Georgia State Patrol spokesman Lt. Paul Cosper, the accident happened on Georgia 100 at Yates Road, which is south of Ephesus, at approximately 6 p.m. Charles Grady Green, 41, of Woodland was traveling north…
FIVE POINTS–The Feb. 28 storm damage in Chambers County has been surveyed and it has been determined that the damage was caused by a tornado. The tornado touched down just west of the intersection of County Roads 160 and 162. The tornado tracked eastward generally along CR 160 and lifted as it approached U.S. Highway…
CLEBURNE COUNTY–On Feb. 16 Cleburne County Sheriff’s Department received information about a 41-year-old male attempting to solicit a 14-year-old female using Facebook. During the investigation, the man was identified as Stephen Douglas Akins of 656 County Rd. 37, Graham. Akins was contacting the 14-year-old victim by means of Facebook and later text messages. The allegations…
Wadley police are investigating a case in which a man was using a younger relative’s cell phone to attempt to make inappropriate contact with one of his underage friends. According to Wadley Police Chief Tim Terry, Peter Pritchett Jr., 54, of 511 Morgan St., Roanoke, was charged on Friday of last week with enticing a…
Ryan Prince, a wildlife biologist supervisor with the Forestry Commission, was busily handing out free trees for planting to the public Friday. He enjoyed talking to people and telling them about how big the trees would grow and what they needed, as did members of the Randolph County Forestry Committee helping him, Coach Bubba May…
(ROANOKE) Funeral services for I.B. Moore, 79, of Roanoke will be Thursday, March 10, 2011, at High Pine Baptist Church with the Rev. Ken Griffith officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining church cemetery. Mr. Moore died Tuesday, March 8, at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, Anniston. Mr. Moore was born July 24, 1931, the…
With the announcement by Gov. Robert Bentley of another 3 percent proration to school budgets, local schools are trying to figure out how to best deal with this latest challenge. One thing that is not being discussed within the Roanoke and Randolph County school sys-tems, thanks to the local taxes that support our schools, is…
“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; and the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.” Song of Solomon, 2:11-12. (KJV)The Song of Solomon is my favorite book of the Bible. I…
The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected a state senator’s lawsuit to stop Alabama from giving driver’s license exams in multiple languages. The decision was actually an easy one for the court because just about every advocate for business growth and development in our state supports it. “A decision the other way would have been an…
I have been following the collective bargaining battles in Wisconsin and other places. It seems at the state and national level there is a move during financial hard times to get rid of programs and things those now in power don’t like and never have.It seems obvious those in power are not wanting to make…
I told a young friend I had posted a picture of her on Facebook, and she seemed surprised.”I didn’t know you were that high-tech,” she said.If being high-tech means I know how to log onto a computer and call up the Internet, I’m high-tech. But I’m still not sure what 4-G means, much less the…
STATE OF ALABAMA RANDOLPH COUNTY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE Default having been made in the terms of that Mortgage executed on the 18th day of June, 2009, by Mark Kirby and Beth Kirby to Small Town Bank which said mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Randolph County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by James A. Turner, an unmarried man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Amerigroup Mortgage Corporation, a Division of Mortgage Investors Corporation, on the 7th day of June, 2003, said mortgage…
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Joseph M. Smith and his wife, Theresa Binion Smith, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., on the 12th day of May, 2005, said mortgage recorded in the…
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…