by The Observer Staff | Dec 13, 2023 | Column, Sean Dietrich
The side-of-the-highway café was decorated for Christmas. Plastic balsam trees on formica tables. Beside the napkin dispenser, a nutcracker soldier with a Sharpie graphic drawn on his unmentionables, lending new meaning to the unfortunate soldier’s station in...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 13, 2023 | Column, Stacey Wallace
by STACEYPATTON WALLACE As I’ve mentioned many times in this column, I am the “Queen of the Klutzes.” When I go anywhere, I’m apt to drip, slip or trip. In an earlier column, I wrote about a time when my lack of gracefulness was really on display as I dined with my...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 13, 2023 | Community, Featured
Help needed to care for 14 children CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER OPELIKA — The Exodus Ranch needs your help.It currently has 14 children and, as always, needs help with food, clothing, medical care and providing the children with more than just the essentials. Eight...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 13, 2023 | Community
Piedmont Columbus Regional names Lee Co. Deputy as First Friday Hero BY HANNAH GOLDFINGERHGOLDFINGER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM The mother of the toddler that Deputy Jacob Cook saved during the “First Friday Hero” event where he was honored recently. LEE COUNTY —...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 13, 2023 | Community
The city of Auburn Parks & Recreation commemorated recent additions to the Wire Road Soccer Complex with a plaque ceremony on Dec. 11. Expansions to the complex were completed this fall, including a new indoor facility with a 160-by-350-foot in-door multipurpose...
