by The Observer Staff | Jul 12, 2013 | Column
Back in 1951 during basketball practice at Evergreen High I asked my friend Billy Mudge Lee what his plans were after high school. Mudge said he “planned to go to college on the G.I.Bill.” It was the best idea I ever heard. I remembered every syllable, and a couple a...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 12, 2013 | Column
Last week I wrote about some of the non-domestic critters I have owned or cared for. I wrote about a fox, Screech Owls, a snake, and one of my two beavers. I neglected to mention that the baby beaver was depicted on the front page of the Birmingham News nursing on my...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 12, 2013 | Column
Dear MSNBC, I don’t want to try to tell you how to run your business, but you are under-using a great talent you already have. I’m talking about Melissa Rayberger. Three nights a week, we get to see her for about five seconds. After “Hard Ball” has started, you run...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 12, 2013 | Editorial Board, Opinions
It isn’t just that she was the driving force in putting together and getting out 209 issues of this newspaper – although she did. It wasn’t just the endless litany of office tasks – filing, faxing, scanning, billing – she always took care of, usually...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 12, 2013 | Legals
PROBATE COURT OF LEE COUNTY, ALABAMA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN E. SMITH, DECEASED. Notice of Petition to Probate Will To: Reba E. Richardson, 2112 Oak Bluff Court, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034 David Shane Baker, 10105 South 2165 East, Sandy, UT 84092 Lynne...