by The Observer Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | Politics
BY MICHELLE KEYPUBLISHER OPELIKA — The Bed & Breakfast debate is still ongoing in the city of Opelika. During Tuesday night’s city council meeting, the council held public hearings on two different versions of a text amendment to the existing ordinance with one...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | Politics
BY DANIEL SCHMIDTFOR THE OBSERVER AUBURN – The Yarbrough Tennis Center will soon receive major cosmetic upgrades after the Auburn City Council on Tuesday approved two contracts to resurface courts at the facility.Those contracts — one for $127,000 and one for $98,000...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured
BY KADIE TAYLORTHE OBSERVERAUBURN — Stamp has clothed the community for decades, through providing custom T-shirt options for businesses and organizations, as well as a retail storefront where people can walk in and buy artistic designs.“We’ve been open for 25 years,...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured
BY ROB DAVISFOR THE OBSERVER AUBURN — Representing the best of the city of Auburn, the five people who were presented with the Mayor’s Lamplighter Awards had no idea that they would be recognized at the annual State of the City Address held last Thursday at the Jay...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | Column, Sean Dietrich
BY SEAN DIETRICH OPINION — It was only an experiment. I wanted to see if I could change America in only one day by being the nicest person on earth for 24 hours.I’m not talking normal-nice. I’m talking obscenely nice. I’m talking do-you-need-a-kidney nice.It should be...
