by The Observer Staff | Dec 24, 2024 | Column, Sean Dietrich
Happy New Year OPINION — New Years – Jan. 2016 Millions of years ago, New Year’s Eve was a rather disappointing thing. Way back then, our filthy ancestors huddled around campfires, sipping swamp water, grunting at teenagers who peed too close to camp. Then,...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 24, 2024 | Column, Stacey Wallace
Café de Fleur BY STACEY WALLACE | PHOTOS BY MIKE WALLACE OPINION — I am a huge fan of I Love Lucy, and Lucille Ball is my favorite comedienne of all time. My love of Lucy developed when I was in kindergarten through sixth grade.After school, I would stay with J.W. and...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 24, 2024 | Column, Walt Albritton
Recalling joy in the Cumberland Mountains OPINION — Living a life filled with love must begin in the home with the family. A preacher cannot share authentic love with others if his family views him as a “street angel and a house devil.” Fortunately, despite our...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 24, 2024 | Bruce Green, Column
Good News and gratitude OPINION — Romans 1:18ff is a downer in a book of good news. It is the longest list of sin in Scripture and it ends with God giving the people mentioned over to self-destruction (v. 24, 26, 28). How did this descent into darkness begin?...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 24, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY SAM HENDRIX, SECRETARYAUBURN HERITAGE ASSN. Seventy-five years ago this January, Auburn resident Marianne Jackson Cashatt (1933-2011) was on top of the world: a popular senior at Lee County High School with abundant school and church activities and plans for...