by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2026 | Politics
Ron Anders Robert Wilkins The following is a question-and answer session between Auburn Villager Editor Brian Woodham and Mayor Ron Anders. Reprinted with permission. AUBURN VILLAGER: Auburn’s experienced a lot of growth over the last decade and a half, and some...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2026 | Featured
BY VANESSA ECHOLSFOR THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — The Opelika-based Dream Day Foundation is on the move, but the local nonprofit is not leaving town. It now has a new home at the Nonprofit Center of East Alabama.Local residents got a chance to see the new office and tour...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2026 | Legals
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Opelika will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the Courtroom of the Opelika Municipal Court Building, 300 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Opelika, Lee...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2026 | Column
OPINION — In the spring of 2000, I was playing college baseball when I had the opportunity to pitch against LSU. They were the best and biggest team I’d ever faced. And somehow, I walked away with a victory. I was incredibly proud. There was just one problem. And...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2026 | Column, Walt Albritton
OPINION — A woman I did not know called me from the local hospital. At her request I went to visit her, finding her in ICU, recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.She spoke plainly: “I saw no reason to continue living. I wanted to die so I shot myself in the...
