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Update on insects

by | May 23, 2014 | Column

They’re baaack! Insect pests I thought had been virtually extirpated from our area have re-appeared. The pests are German cockroaches. Recently I wrote that small roaches I couldn’t identify were showing up in my house, more often than elsewhere in my dishwasher...

Let’s go to the movies

by | May 23, 2014 | Column

I accept full responsibility for last week’s goof. My fault. I did it. I’m the one who hit a wrong key and made a very common washday ingredient come out in a whole bunch of different ways. DUX, Dis, Diz, etc., etc., etc. The word is DUZ. Got it? DUZ. It rhymes with...

It’s my birthday

by | May 23, 2014 | Column

My birthday is this week. I’ve never been real big on celebrating birthdays. Perhaps it’s because I was born during ‘Nam. Seriously, why do we do it? Every single person on the globe has one every single year, and each year, it puts us one year closer to death. I’ll...

My newest app addiction

by | May 23, 2014 | Column

  I completely skipped the Farmville phase. I have never played Angry Birds or Flappy Bird or any other feathered friend-focused game. I have never crushed any candy or created words with my friends. There was a brief affair with DragonVale, but that has long...

SYNOPSIS OF ZONING NOTICE (5/23/14)

by | May 23, 2014 | Legals

SYNOPSIS OF ZONING NOTICE The City Council of the City of Opelika will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 204 S. 7th Street, Opelika, Lee County, Alabama, to consider the adoption of an...