by The Observer Staff | Mar 6, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY MICHELLE KEYMICHELLE@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones has not forgotten the scene when he arrived at the intersection of Highway 51 and Lee County Road 38 in Beauregard. He arrived in Beauregard a mere 15 minutes after the EF-4 tornado...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 6, 2024 | Community, Featured
BY MICHELLE KEYMICHELLE@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — March 3, 2019, is a date forever etched into the memory of most Lee County residents, especially those in Beauregard and Smiths Station. Twenty-three lives were lost, more than a hundred people were injured and...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 6, 2024 | Community, Featured
Rememberance, Reflection, Resilence BY STEVEN STIEFELFOR THE OBSERVER BEAUREGARD — Survivors of the March 3, 2019, tornado in Lee County gathered Sunday at Providence Baptist Church in Beauregard to mark the fifth anniversary of the day and to honor the 23 people...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 6, 2024 | Column, Walt Albritton
OPINION — Friends make an awesome difference in our lives. Two special friends – Greg Lotz in Cincinnati and Bonny Johns in Pensacola – shared with me a new song that stirs my soul. The song reminds me that the living Jesus wants to display His power in my weakness....
by The Observer Staff | Mar 6, 2024 | Bruce Green, Column
OPINION — Over the last three weeks, we’ve looked at Paul’s instructions from Ephesians on how we are to walk as disciples of Jesus. We’ve learned that we are to walk: 1) in a manner worthy of our calling (4:1), 2) differently from the world (4:17), 3) “in the way of...
