by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2023 | Community, Politics
BY HANNAH GOLDFINGER HGOLDFINGER@ OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM AUBURN — The Auburn City Council approved several items relating to the new Boykin Community Center during Tuesday night’s council meeting. The Boykin-Donahue Campus Project is a large city project to...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2023 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BY WANDA DYE OPELIKA — “Take me to your River…Time with my Fathers” is a body of work created over the past seven years that reflects upon my journey in recovery. The work is a series of meditative moments recorded through image, sound, drawing and...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2023 | Community, Featured, Politics
BY MICHELLE KEY MICHELLE@ OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM OPELIKA — During Tuesday night’s Opelika City Council meeting, the council approved a special appropriation to the Arts Association of East Alabama (AAEA) in the amount of $14,000 to be used exclusively to defray...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2023 | Column, Greg Markley
OPINION — When Vladimir Putin became Russia’s president in 1999, its constitution allowed presidents for two consecutive terms. But wait? After his second term ended in 2008, Putin sat in as prime minister before becoming president again in 2012. And so it goes. Did...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 3, 2023 | Sean Dietrich
Lake Martin is flat. Mirror flat. It is a perfect evening. The sun is low. The crickets are singing in full stereo. And I’m visiting with old ghosts. My father would have looked at this calm water and said it was as “flat as a bookkeeper’s bottom.” Only he...
