By Stacey Patton Wallace Last month, Mike and I finally managed to go to Christmas in a Railroad Town in Opelika. I’ve mentioned many times how much...
Column Articles
Bumblebees and Serving God
By BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika It was a grey day as I pulled my grey truck into the driveway about...
Get Up and Make a New Start
By WALTER ALBRITTON Sick and tired of the way things are going? Well, don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. Everybody has bad days. Days when you feel...
OHS Winter Sports Continue
ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL Winter sports continues at Opelika High School and Opelika Middle School. The girls’ and boys’ basketball teams play two...
Share the Dream That All Children Can Be Friends
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. By Beth Pinyerd All this week, we are...
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers The 2022 annual regular session of the legislature has begun. It began Jan. 11 and constitutionally can last three and one-half...
Top words of the year 2021: From ‘Vax’ to ‘Breadcrumbing’ to ‘Cisgender’
By GREG MARKLEY The Name of the Wind (2007) is a novel by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s focus is wizardry and a young man’s coming of age. Rothfuss is a...
New Year
By SEAN DIETRICH Lord have mercy. Betty White is dead. She inherited her eternal reward on New Year’s Eve, at age 99. Less than 24 hours before the...
Without Words
By WENDY HODGE Occasionally there are days when I sit in front of a blank screen with only a blinking cursor and the silence of my thoughts to keep...