Column Articles

By SEAN DIETRICH Buc-ee’s convenience store sits outside Athens, Alabama, like a giant squatting beaver. This Texas-based gas station place is not a mere gas station. Buc-ee’s is a dwarf planet. You’re looking at Six Flags Over Circle K. And the place is packed today....

OPELIKA — Opelika High School spring athletics — baseball, softball and soccer — were all in action last week. BASEBALL Opelika's varsity baseball team (13-10) won two games, beating Handley and Dothan on the road last week. The Bulldogs defeated Handley, 8-4, in nine...

By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION —  Two disciples who attended the Passover Feast are headed toward Emmaus (about seven miles from Jerusalem). As they travel, their conversation is dominated by events of the last few days — how this year’s Passover was unlike any other they...

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — "Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little man was he. He climbed up in a sycamore tree for the Lord he wanted to see. And as the Savior passed that way, He looked up in the tree, and He said, ‘Zacchaeus you come down, for I’m going...