by The Observer Staff | Aug 10, 2023 | Community, Sports
The Opelika Sportsplex opted for a duathlon, as opposed to a triathlon, this year due to ongoing construction at the Sportsplex. This year’s Duathlon for Kids took place Saturday, Aug. 5, for children ages 6 to 15. Participants ran and biked instead of the...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 10, 2023 | Community, Schools
Opelika students returned to the classroom last week. Pictured are students from Carver Elementary, the new Fox Run sixth grade school and Jeter Elementary. Â PHOTOS BY ROBERT NOLES/THE OBSERVER The community contributed pictures to The Observer via Facebook last week,...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 10, 2023 | Beth Pinyerd, Column
Here we are as students and families head into the second week of school and we begin to take on the adventures of homework. I can remember it like it was yesterday; my mother was a classroom teacher in the Opelika City Schools system and had much to do with her own...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 10, 2023 | Column, Politics, Steve Flowers
Friends and Lawyers OPINION — We continue this week with our series of stories about Alabama’s most colorful governor, the legendary Big Jim Folsom. Big Jim was a true politician, and he was not above straddling the fence, but at least he was honest about it. When...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 10, 2023 | Community, Featured, Schools
BY WIL CREWS SPORTSCREWS@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM AUBURN — Auburn University students returned to campus last weekend, but a select few of on-campus residents were told they cannot move in. Students assigned living quarters in the Cambridge Hall...
