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What loyalty means to us

by | Aug 6, 2012 | Editorial Board, Opinions

Loyalty: you don’t see much of it any more. Loyalty is a faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Loyalty is faithful adherence to a cause, a group, an employer. Loyalty is a pledge of truth to oneself and others. Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of...

Pardon our progress

by | Aug 6, 2012 | Editorial Board, Opinions

Some of you may have noticed this week’s issue of your beloved Opelika Observer seems to look a bit different. You aren’t crazy; things really are on different pages this week. This week, and over the next several weeks, we’ll be making tweaks and changes to some of...

Opelika City Council allots almost $50,000 for ‘exterior repairs, misc. restorative actions’ for historic Penn Yonge home at Spring Villa Park, beginning process of restoring historic Opelika property

by | Aug 6, 2012 | Politics

by the Opelika Observer staff   For the last few years, the historic Penn Yonge House, located at the city of Opelika’s Spring Villa Park, has been what Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller called  in October 2011 “a victim of blind neglect,” as the house currently features...