by The Observer Staff | Dec 10, 2024 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BYFAMILY FEATURES EAST ALABAMA — While family and friends share gifts and hearty meals during the holidays, make sure you protect the joy of the season by keeping pets safe as you likely introduce new foods, decor and other potential hazards in the...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 10, 2024 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BY THE CITY OF AUBURN AUBURN — Auburn Public Safety announces the return of its annual Auburn Toy Drive — a drive-through donation event — and invites residents and local businesses to help make the season brighter for families in need.Drop off newly...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 10, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY OBSERVER STAFF BEULAH — A multi-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 6:38 a.m. Monday, Dec. 9, has claimed two lives and injured nine other individuals.Corbin H. Hamby, 49, of Salem, was fatally injured when the 2022 Ford E-450 transport vehicle, he was a...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 10, 2024 | Events, Featured
The city of Opelika held the inaugural lighting of its new 72-foot Christmas tree — the largest in the state of Alabama — during SNOPELIKA festivities on Friday, Dec. 6. The tree is adorned with 1,058 individual branches, 4,232 ornaments and 106,200 LED lights and is...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 4, 2024 | Column, Steve Flowers
Big Mules ain’t all bad OPINION —Our legendary governor of the 1940s and 1950s was the giant, cartoonish, character James E. “Big Jim” Folsom. Ol’ Big Jim ran against the big businesses of Birmingham — big banks, utilities and U.S. Steel — and labeled them the...
