by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2016 | Community
By Morgan Bryce Staff Reporter Opelika Sportsplex Director Reid Pope is retiring Oct. 31, after nearly 43 years of working with Opelika’s Parks and Recreation Department. Pope said his decision to retire came after a conversation he had with his wife Gail earlier this...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2016 | Politics
By Rebekah Martin Associate Editor Mayor Gary Fuller recognized a number of city employees at last week’s city council meeting with service awards. Fuller said he believes everyone who works for the city is special and deserves the recognition. “The employee service...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2016 | Column
By Ann Cipperly It hardly seems possible that it has been eight years since I started writing the food column for the Observer. It seems like yesterday that I walked into the first office of the Observer in the old Woolworth’s building on a sunny October afternoon. It...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2016 | Column, Steve Flowers
The year was 1962. John Kennedy was President. Camelot was in full bloom. The Congress was controlled by Democrats only because the South was solidly Democratic. The Southern bloc of senators and congressmen were all Democrats. Because of their enormous...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2016 | Column
In a past column I commented on my boyhood living with an aunt and uncle in Waynesboro, Tennessee, and how the place was a child’s paradise. Years ago, I barely mentioned a town about 12 miles away, Clifton, where my maternal grandparents, Daddy and Momma Hughes,...
