By WENDY HODGE When last we met, the mood at Carver Elementary was tense. Our two hall monitors, Steve and Andy, were not exactly everybody’s...
Column Articles
We Must Never Forget
BY PERRY HOOPER JR. As I watched 13 brave American heroes being brought home after being killed in Afghanistan, it was tragic and heartbreaking. All...
Plan Brunch For Houseguests, Fall Hospitality Before Football Games
By Ann Cipperly With the football season in full swing and houseguests visiting during the fall months, weekend brunches are an easy way to provide...
Making the Grade: Niffer’s at the Tracks
By Stacey Patton Wallace As I have said several times, I do love dining in downtown Opelika. The parking is plentiful and free. Also, the brick...
OHS VOLLEYBALL ON HOT STREAK
ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL The Opelika High Volleyball team has won its first three area games of the regular season. Earlier in September, OHS...
Engage Your Children
in October Celebrations
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. By Beth Pinyerd October enters this week with...
Inside the Statehouse
Inside the StatehouseWe Now Have a Very Youthful Federal Judiciary in Alabama By Steve Flowers Our senior senator, Richard Shelby, has left an...
AU’s Black Enrollment Dips, While Race Issues Rise In Nation
By GREG MARKLEY While teaching undergrad history at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2014, I wanted to find out how many fort buildings the soldiers’ were...
The Hands of God
By WALTER ALBRITTON Anyone with a dime’s worth of common sense knows that God is a spirit who has no hands like the appendages that hang from a...