by The Observer Staff | Feb 9, 2023 | Sports
BY DANIEL LOCKE FOR THE OBSERVER AUBURN — The Auburn gymnastics team has a roster that is loaded with talent. Among these athletes is Cassie Stevens, a senior from Phoenix, Arizona, who has made her mark on the program. “I’ve been doing gymnastics since I...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 9, 2023 | Community, Schools
BY KENDYL HOLLINGSWORTHKENDYLH@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM AUBURN — If you are an adult who experiences high blood pressure, or simply has the desire to help with medical research, researchers at Auburn University could use your help. Dr. Austin Robinson, an assistant...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 9, 2023 | Beth Pinyerd
As an early childhood teacher, I love the month of February. Readers, if you want to be loved, and to have heartfelt joy and happiness, spend time with young children. Right now, with it being mid-winter — overcast with rain and cold weather — the month of February...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 9, 2023 | Steve Flowers
Alabama Making Strides in Broadband Expansion OPINION — If you took a nighttime plane ride across much of the rural South in the early 1900s, you would see nothing but darkness on the ground below because electricity at the time was centered mainly around highly...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 9, 2023 | Greg Markley
OPINION — Many have heard the quote by Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father. But the setting for his saying, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes,” has seldom been noted. Franklin said that quote (in French) to a friend in a 1789 letter he sent to France. It...