by The Observer Staff | Sep 15, 2026 | Column, Sean Dietrich
OPINION — I woke up thinking about you. There I was, at 4:41 a.m., sitting in my living room, wondering about you. I heard the doctor gave you bad news. And I couldn’t help but imagine how afraid you must be. Fear is a curse. A primal heirloom, passed down...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 15, 2026 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BY ACES AUBURN UNIVERSITY — Alabama gardeners turned extra rows, backyard plots and community gardens into 124,414 pounds of donated produce during the Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Grow More, Give More 250 Pound Challenge, which wrapped up on...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 15, 2026 | Education
BY STEVEN STIEFEL FOR THE OBSERVER LEE COUNTY — Lee County Superintendent of Education Mike Howard stated he will resign, effective Dec. 31. He did not attend a Sept. 8 work session, where school board members discussed options for finding his replacement with board...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 15, 2026 | Education
BY STEVEN STIEFEL FOR THE OBSERVER LEE COUNTY — The Lee County Board of Education approved a $160 million budget Sept. 8 for the fiscal year that begins next month, continuing a decade-long practice of building in projected surpluses to protect the district’s cash...
by The Observer Staff | Sep 15, 2026 | Education
Joshua Dairen will speak Sept. 23 at noon at the Lunch Break Lecture Series for the Museum of East Alabama. His lecture will be: “Talking to Ghosts: How Embracing the Paranormal Preserves Our History.” Dairen explains his talk, “We are told that we should fear...
