by The Observer Staff | Feb 22, 2013 | Sports
The Opelika boys basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 after beating Jeff Davis 57-52 in overtime. OHS trailed most of the game including being down by 12 points in the fourth quarter. Senior center T.J. Pressley led the Dawgs’ comeback, scoring 29 points and...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 22, 2013 | Letter to the Editor, Opinions
The Character Trait for the month of February is “Civility”. The standard definition of the word is this: to show polite and courteous behavior towards others in one’s words and actions. But isn’t true Civility more than being polite and courteous to others? My...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 22, 2013 | Column
I was sitting across the table from a delightful, fresh faced, twenty-something in an upbeat local restaurant the other day. I had invited her to lunch to pick her brain. Ages have passed since I was in her shoes, I wanted a view into her world. For a moment, I felt...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 22, 2013 | Column
Realization might come the day your dog needs help to get into the car, or when he can’t get up the stairs or slips in the kitchen. You might realize it when your former retrieving fool sadly watches his ball sail to the far end of the field and lies down instead of...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 22, 2013 | Column
A fellow toiler at the sewage purification plant where we work said–now get this–that she had never…seen…Casablanca. Egad! Zounds! You can imagine the shock this caused amongst her fellow workers. Then, she compounded this rare display of...