by The Observer Staff | Mar 2, 2023 | Beth Pinyerd, Column
I love the way the seasons are defined and displayed in central Alabama. We enjoy autumn and winter, but spring begins to tickle our senses of sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing. What a truly beautiful way for you to engage your child as we embark into spring of...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 2, 2023 | Column, Politics, Steve Flowers
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — The gala and festivities of the gubernatorial swearing-in are all wrapped up. Gov. Kay Ivey has been sworn in for another four-year term. The legislators, all 140, are all sworn in soon after the general election victories in November....
by The Observer Staff | Mar 2, 2023 | Community, Featured
CONTRIBUTED BY THE LEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE LEE COUNTY — Capt. Tammy Booth Hollis was recently promoted from lieutenant to captain of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), making her the first female captain in LCSO history. Booth Hollis started with...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 2, 2023 | Politics
BY HANNAH LESTER HLESTER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — The Lee County Commission voted to approve the purchase of new equipment for the Lee County Coroner’s Office. “If you back up a number of years, there was a lot of controversy around the transportation of...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 2, 2023 | Column, Greg Markley, Politics
BY GREG MARKLEY OPINION — I was a copyboy at the Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island from 1978 to 1981. Every December, quirky editors invited employees to participate in the “ghoul pool.” That was a competition to see who could predict the closest day to when...
