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,...
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....
