by The Observer Staff | Aug 17, 2017 | Community
By Morgan Bryce Staff Reporter Next month, Jeter residents will have the opportunity to compete against each other in creating and maintaining award-winning yards through the Jeter Yard of the Month Clean-Up Initiative. An effort led by Ward 2 Councilwoman Tiffany...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 15, 2017 | Column
By Sean Dietrich The bottom has fallen out of the sky. My wife and her mother are standing by the front door, watching cats and dogs fall from heaven. The Weather Channel is on TV. The map shows radar splotches over South Alabama and the Panhandle. My wife has a...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 15, 2017 | Column
By Wendy Hodge This world’s a noisy place. In all things, from advertising blaring at us from the television, radio, and Internet to technology which beeps, chirps, and dings at us from our pockets and purses…. From city sounds that honk and bang incessantly to our...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 15, 2017 | Ann Cipperly, Column
By Ann Cipperly Days are slowing getting shorter, and soon summer will be gone, as well as the bounty of garden fresh vegetables. The Opelika Farmers Market will stay open through the last Tuesday of this month, while three permanent markets remain open year round:...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 15, 2017 | Column, Steve Flowers
You know the results of Tuesday’s primaries for our U.S. Senate seat. I had to go to press before the vote. However, the assumption was that there would be a runoff in the Republican primary. It is safe to say that the winner of that runoff on September 26 will be...
