by The Observer Staff | Feb 11, 2024 | Community, Events, Featured
BY KADIE VICKFOR THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — Opelika Community Theater is once again sharing black history through a showcase Feb. 23-25. Showtimes are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.“The Black History Showcase is an outreach program that we do for...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 11, 2024 | Column, Sean Dietrich
OPINION — Newspapers have a smell. If you’re lucky enough to find a newspaper in our digital world, you’ll notice the smell first. Fresh newsprint paper. SoySeal ink. Still warm. It’s a unique scent.I grew up throwing newspapers. Not on a bicycle. My mother and I...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 11, 2024 | Column, Walt Albritton
OPINION — In the days of my youth, I was frail and weak. My dad was a strong man. I admired his strength. In the picture book of Bible stories my mother read to me, I learned about a man named Samson whose story is in the book of Judges. I was impressed with his...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 11, 2024 | Bruce Green, Column
OPINION — “I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my pray-ers.” Paul to the Ephesians in 1:16 of his letter. Here’s one of those verses that’s easy to rush right by. It’s not hard to think of Paul’s statement as being the first century equivalent...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 11, 2024 | Column, D. Mark Mitchell
BY D. MARK MITCHELL OPINION — The Opelika High varsity girls and boys basketball teams’ seasons ended in the first round of the Area tournament, last weekend at the Auburn High School gymnasium.The Lady Bulldogs lost their opening round to AHS, 89-44 last Friday....
