Ann Cipperly Articles

Ogrows Open Air Farmers Market Returns May 17

By Ann Cipperly Garden fresh vegetables and fruits along with homemade baked goods, jams, honey and other items are available Tuesday afternoons at the Ogrows Open Air Farmers Market in back of the Southside Center for the Arts on Glenn Street in Opelika. The market...

Micah Melnick Shares Thoughts On Motherhood for All Moms

By Ann Cipperly As Mother’s Day approaches, Micah Melnick, founder and executive director of BigHouse, gives her thoughts on motherhood, whether someone is a birth or foster mom or one of the “mothers” in a child’s life, such as a grandmother or Sunday school teacher....

Entire Family Helps With Tea Party Celebrating A Special Birthday

By Ann Cipperly Birthdays are special times at the home of Natalie and Aaron Warren and their three children, Judson, 8; Ann Bradley, 6; and Caroline, 4. Natalie enjoys celebrating the children’s birthdays with a theme party at their home. For Caroline’s 4th...

Trish Toomer Enjoys Cooking At Home, For Coffee Shop

By Ann Cipperly With a love of cooking, Trish Toomer not only prepares delicious meals for her family but uses her culinary skills to create yummy pastries for Toomer’s Coffee Roasters in Opelika, which she and her husband Sandy own. Three and a half years ago the...

Laura McKay shares menus for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day

Laura McKay shares menus for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day

Dec 12, 2018

By Ann Cipperly Bare branched crepe myrtles line the drive to the country home of Laura and Jason McKay where the front of the house is festively...

Tiffany Denson enjoys entertaining at Christmas in historic home

Tiffany Denson enjoys entertaining at Christmas in historic home

Nov 28, 2018

By Ann Cipperly For the Opelika Observer Situated at the corner of North 8th Street and Fourth Avenue in Opelika, the 1913 Denson home in the...

Brenda Boteler creates healthy dishes to share with neighbors

Brenda Boteler creates healthy dishes to share with neighbors

Sep 12, 2018

By Ann Cipperly When Brenda and Bob Boteler decided to move to Opelika, they were looking for a friendly neighborhood. After talking to various...

Have plenty of good food on hand for Labor Day weekend

Aug 29, 2018

By Morgan Bryce Associate Editor Although the temperatures will continue to soar for weeks longer, Labor Day traditionally signals the end of...

Nealey Dozier Thompson has dream job working with Atlanta chefs

Aug 15, 2018

By Ann Cipperly When I walked into an Atlanta shop recently for a cooking class on Vietnamese kitchen techniques, I was pleasantly surprised to find...

New minister’s wife shares organizing tips, back-to-school recipes

Aug 8, 2018

By Ann Cipperly The mother of four children, Jennifer Rezek has developed organization ideas for getting her children ready for back to school....

Cool off with refreshing salads for lunches, light suppers

Cool off with refreshing salads for lunches, light suppers

Aug 1, 2018

By Ann Cipperly When temperatures soar during summer in Opelika, plan on serving a variety of salads for lunches and light suppers. Chicken or...

Prepare scrumptious, fresh dishes for mid-summer nights

Prepare scrumptious, fresh dishes for mid-summer nights

Jul 25, 2018

By Ann Cipperly “Summer afternoon- summer afternoon, to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James...

Grandmother, granddaughter enjoy special time during summer

Grandmother, granddaughter enjoy special time during summer

Jul 18, 2018

By Ann Cipperly After Martha Hill’s husband, Hoyt, passed away in 2015, life has changed, but faith and family have remained the most important....

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