by The Observer Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Featured, Sports
BY ELESE MCKINLEYFOR THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — Hooked Martial Arts of Opelika offers an adaptive martial arts program specifically for children and adults with special needs. This adaptive program specializes in making martial arts accessible for everyone, offering...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Community, Featured
Thelma Jones, pictured at right, was born in Loachapoka on Sept. 19, 1919, and has been a lifelong resident. She is the mother of two children and has more than 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her words of advice are, “Be thankful for all the storms in your...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY MICHELLE KEYEDITOR@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM OPELIKA — Circles of Opelika, a local nonprofit, is working to changes lives in the local community. Led by the PRF Teaching Ministry and its founder, Dr. Nate Dunlap Jr., Circles and PRF hope to lead hundreds of people out of...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Community, Featured, Uncategorized
CONTRIBUTED BY OBSERVER STAFF OPELIKA — Ten days after nearly 120 long-term residents of the Springwood Hotel were evacuated at the request of the office of the Alabama State Fire Marshal, there is still no plan in place for repairing and reopening the...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Community, Featured
PHOTO BY ROBERT NOLES | THE OBSERVER The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs dedicated the Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins Veterans Home during a ceremony on Sept. 13. The 182,000-sq. ft. facility in Enterprise, home to 174 veterans, is named in honor of Adkins,...
