by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2012 | Column
Years ago in the summer of 1965, when George Wallace was governor, I was in the Lowndes County Courthouse covering the murder trial of Viola Liuzzo, the woman from Detroit who was shot by a Klansman the night “The March” ended. Every major newspaper in the known world...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2012 | Obituaries
Zula Mae Williams A funeral service for Mrs. Zula Mae Williams, 95, of Auburn was held at 1 p.m. on April 14, at Peterson and Williams Chapel with interment in Cluster Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Solomon Torbert officiated. Williams passed on April 5, at...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 20, 2012 | Education
Special to the Opelika Observer The Lewis Cooper Jr. Memorial Library is the recipient of the book: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. The book was donated by the Alabama Forest Owners’ Association. In making its donation,...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2012 | Sports
by D. Mark Mitchell Sports Editor The spring sports will be finishing their regular season next week. The teams are trying to win their remaining games to earn spots in the state playoffs or position themselves to win the Area tournaments to make it to the...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2012 | Editorial Board, Opinions
Next Thursday, April 19, marks National Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time when as a nation we are supposed to come together to memorialize and remember the lives of the more than six million Jews (and five million others) who died in the terrible murders enacted by...