by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Community, Featured, Letter to the Editor
OPINION — I would like to bring to your attention and to the attention of your readers that the upcoming April 30, 2024 marks the 49th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.It is important to remember the lives of those men and women who died for our country and...
by The Observer Staff | Apr 19, 2024 | Community, Featured
CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — The city of Opelika, the Lutzie 43 Foundation and Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort & Spa at Grand National have joined efforts to bring awareness to safe driving.A new sign for the 43 Key Seconds Initiative was dedicated on...
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...