by The Observer Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Column, Stacey Wallace
At home with Chef Jim OPINION — As I have mentioned numerous times in this column, I love to eat, but I really dislike cooking.My attitude about cooking is: What if I spent hours cooking a meal and then dropped dead at the end of that day? I would have wasted the last...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 13, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY STEVEN STIEFELFOR THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — Doug Long of Opelika turned his love of carnivals into a business producing kettle corn in various sweet and salty flavors to treat kids of all ages.At 57, Long still cooks the old-fashioned way. He pours kernels into a...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 13, 2024 | Ann Cipperly, Column
Love of baking leads to customized confection business BY ANN CIPPERLY After having interesting careers around the country, Jan and Joel Martin moved to Opelika two years ago to be near family. Jan changed careers, using her love of baking to create specialty,...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 12, 2024 | Politics
BY MICHELLE KEYTHE OBSERVER LEE COUNTY — During Monday night’s Lee County Commission meeting,Jimmie Dickey, executive director and CEO of Integrea, presented information pertaining to the name change of East Alabama Mental Health to Integrea Community Health System....
by The Observer Staff | Sep 12, 2024 | Column, Steve Flowers
Remembering 9/11 OPINION — It was 23 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked our country. It was a day in infamy and a wakeup call for America. Allow me to share some memories from that day from famous Alabama political figures.The legendary Alabama...
