by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Schools
BY KENDYL HOLLINGSWORTHKENDYL@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — It was a night of honors as Lee County Schools named its Teachers of the Year and recognized Beauregard’s state champions in bowling. Jason Wright, assistant superintendent of secondary education,...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Beth Pinyerd, Column
I want to give my readers a heads-up: Wear green on Friday, March 17, so you won’t get pinched. St. Patrick’s Day rolls in among beautiful flowers, green clover and birds singing beautiful songs all day long. I love the way Opelika celebrates spring with the Azalea...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Column, Politics, Steve Flowers
Disgraced, Fraudulent Criminal Con Man Donald Watkins Blogs From Prison OPINION — I am old and old-fashioned. I have been writing this column on Alabama government and political history for 20 years, and it appears weekly in more than 60 newspapers. Folks believe what...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Community, Politics
BY HANNAH LESTER HLESTER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM LEE COUNTY — The Lee County Commission heard a presentation by Dan Mellot with Sain Associates on the results of a broadband feasibility study in Lee County during its meeting on Monday, March 13. “Last year the...
by The Observer Staff | Mar 15, 2023 | Greg Markley, Politics
OPINION — In his play “The Tempest,” William Shakespeare famously wrote, “What’s past is prologue.” In today’s parlance, the phrase advances the idea that history provides entry for the present. Centuries later, Southern writer William Faulkner wrote, “The past is...
