by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY NICHOLAS YOUNGFOR THE OBSERVER AUBURN — On April 15, downtown Auburn saw the doors open for a new coffee shop, The Fox. This newest addition to the scene is brought to you by a set of familiar faces, Richard and Crystal Tomasello, owners of the popular coffee shop...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Column, Stacey Wallace
BY STACEY WALLACE OPINION — If you are like most people, you have a number of restaurants where you regularly dine. Since Mike and I moved to Auburn in November 2015, we have enjoyed a variety of great restaurants.One restaurant in Opelika, The Grille at Botanic, has...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Column, Sean Dietrich
Hi. You don’t know me. I don’t know you. We’re strangers. But we’re the same, sort of. Only chances are, you drive a nicer car than I do. In fact I guarantee you drive a nicer car.I drive a 25-year-old truck. The tailgate is rusted, there is a prodigious layer of dog...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Community, Featured
‘Cheese Curd Update’ BY ANITA STIEFELANITAS@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — The tension was thick as the seven remaining contestants entered the arena in Monday night’s episode of MasterChef Junior, but the atmosphere at Moe’s Original Barbecue at Bent...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Events
BY JANET MCCOY,LEE COUNTY RELAY FOR LIFE LEE COUNTY — Lee County’s Relay For Life, a community event to raise money and support those fighting cancer, is set for Friday, May 3rd, around the Lee County Courthouse square in downtown Opelika.This year’s theme is “Every...