by The Observer Staff | Aug 30, 2012 | Editorial Board, Opinions
We’ll begin by congratulating council members Jones and Gray on their recent electoral victories in the city’s municipal elections. All of Opelika’s city officials were returned to their post, but only Jones and Gray had competition for their positions. Now that our...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 30, 2012 | Column
Saturdays at the Cottage Cafe have become an impromptu salon for the discussion of various ills and issues within our society. (This is what happens when I’m left alone to work the sandwich table.) As regular customers come and go, so do the topics of conversation,...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 30, 2012 | Column
For the past three years or so, each week-day afternoon when I attend the meeting of the Geezers at Hardee’s on Marvyn Parkway, I bring some food scraps and drop them on the parking lot. Between three and six crows would be expected to immediately descend for an...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 30, 2012 | Column
If the thought of the upcoming Labor Day brings a smile to your face, chances are good that you associate some special tradition with this day. Long heralded as the official end of summer with the beginning of the school year, it has always been a joyous holiday when...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 30, 2012 | Column
People who are supposed to know say this will be a bad (bad for us, good for them) year for yellow jackets. I hope not. Taking no chances, every afternoon I recon our back yard, like a U2 searching for atomic bomb sites, watching very carefully looking for the little...