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‘Keeping Christmas’ offers good advice

BY WALT ALBRITTON BY WALTER ALBRITTON OPINION —As we say goodbye to Christmas, I want to share with you “Keeping Christmas” by Henry van Dyke. A Presbyterian pastor and professor of English literature at Princeton University, he was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania,...

Clean, bright and new

BY BRUCE GREEN OPINION —I hope the past year has gone well for you and that the new one will be even better. I think New Year’s Day is a great holiday. It tends to get the short end of the attention stick because it comes right after Christmas and is usually...

Getting to know coach Bryan Moore

BY D MARK MITCHELL BY D. MARK MITCHELL OPINION —Opelika Schools Superintendent Dr Farrell Seymore introduced Bryan Moore as the new OHS head football coach.The process began after Seymore fired head football coach Erik Speakman on Nov. 2.Seymore chose to take his time...

Roger Bedford remembered

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — As is my custom, my year-end column is devoted to acknowledging meaningful Alabama political leaders who passed away during the year. This year I will highlight only one. Roger Bedford passed away in October at 67. He was not just a...

Channeling Chuck Norris: Finding Ideas for Columns and Assignment

Channeling Chuck Norris: Finding Ideas for Columns and Assignment

Jul 20, 2022

By GREG MARKLEY OPINION — Last year in mid-December, I awoke in the middle of the night and yelled, “Chuck Norris.” My wife asked what the heck I...

The Sandwich

The Sandwich

Jul 13, 2022

By SEAN DIETRICH Do this. Get a tomato. Not just any tomato. A Slocomb, Alabama, tomato. Make sure the tomato is firecracker-red and softer than the...

Sequel

Sequel

Jul 13, 2022

By WENDY HODGE Last weekend, Tim and I went to the movies. “Top Gun — Maverick” was playing on the Big D at the Tiger Town 13, and we had tickets...

Create Savory Pies, Other Dishes From Tomatoes In Season

Create Savory Pies, Other Dishes From Tomatoes In Season

Jul 13, 2022

By Ann Cipperly Fresh vegetables are among the joys of summertime, especially tomatoes. Juicy, sliced tomatoes are the best accompaniment to fresh...

Making the Grade: The 19th Hole Restaurant & Sports Bar

Making the Grade: The 19th Hole Restaurant & Sports Bar

Jul 13, 2022

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE My husband Mike and I are certainly not the athletic type. Instead, we are quite clumsy, but loveable. This tendency to be...

Dixie Boys Baseball State Tournament

Dixie Boys Baseball State Tournament

Jul 13, 2022

ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL OPELIKA — Opelika hosted the 2022 Alabama Dixie Boys Baseball (DBB) State Tournament at West Ridge Park last weekend....

Kind Acts and Music Beat the Heat

Kind Acts and Music Beat the Heat

Jul 13, 2022

By Beth Pinyerd This past week in summer preschool, I had the pure joy of reading “The Very Lonely Firefly” by Eric Carle to the children. The very...

Inside the Statehouse Women and Young Folks Prevail in 2022

Inside the Statehouse Women and Young Folks Prevail in 2022

Jul 13, 2022

By Steve Flowers OPINION — In my observations of Alabama politics, every election year brings an underlying election year surprise or two. The...

Channeling Chuck Norris: Finding Ideas for Columns and Assignment

A ‘Hot’ Issue in 1977, Abortion Divided Our College Newspaper Staff

Jul 13, 2022

By GREG MARKLEY OPINION –– It was November 1977, four years after the controversial Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court. That landmark...

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