by The Observer Staff | Oct 23, 2011 | Sports
The Lee-Scott Warriors fell to Monroe Academy in a game that was much closer than the score indicated. Monroe Academy, of Monroeville, scored two of its TDs on long plays that could have easily gone the other way. On their first TD, the Lee-Scott corner went for the...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 23, 2011 | Editorial Board, Opinions
Spring Villa Park was an Opelika institution and rite-of-passage for generations of Opelikans, even all of us. We all swam in the cold, clear waters of the spring-fed pool, water so pure it needed no filters. We spent the night in the Yonge house, hearing the legend...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 23, 2011 | Column
I have discovered that I am not alone in yet another area of quirkiness. It seems the longer I live the more I find I share oddities with the most fun, wonderful people. This discovery came quite by accident. I made a remark on Facebook. Within minutes, I was...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 23, 2011 | Education
Last night and for five nights more, the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts will be an extension of normal, picturesque Grovers Corners, N.H., as the Opelika High Theatre Society performs the classic American play: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Theatre society...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 23, 2011 | Education
For almost a year and a half, the BigHouse Foundation, located on Samford Avenue in Opelika, has done what it tries to do best: reach out to and improve the lives of children in foster care in Alabama. This fall, Micah Melnick, executive director of the BigHouse...