by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Beth Pinyerd, Column
I want to give my readers a heads-up: Wear green on Friday, March 17, so you won’t get pinched. St. Patrick’s Day rolls in among beautiful flowers, green clover and birds singing beautiful songs all day long. I love the way Opelika celebrates spring with the Azalea...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Column, Politics, Steve Flowers
Disgraced, Fraudulent Criminal Con Man Donald Watkins Blogs From Prison OPINION — I am old and old-fashioned. I have been writing this column on Alabama government and political history for 20 years, and it appears weekly in more than 60 newspapers. Folks believe what...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Community, Politics
BY HANNAH LESTER HLESTER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — The Lee County Commission heard a presentation by Dan Mellot with Sain Associates on the results of a broadband feasibility study in Lee County during its meeting on Monday, March 13. “Last year the...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Greg Markley, Politics
OPINION — In his play “The Tempest,” William Shakespeare famously wrote, “What’s past is prologue.” In today’s parlance, the phrase advances the idea that history provides entry for the present. Centuries later, Southern writer William Faulkner wrote, “The past is...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Kenneth Wayne “KW” Sherwood went to be with his Lord March 11, 2023, at age 93. He died peacefully at his home in Opelika, surrounded by his family. KW was born on May 7, 1929, in Allen County, Kansas, to Fred and Gladys Sherwood. He was the eldest of eight children....
