By Steve Flowers Huntsville has rocketed past Birmingham as Alabama’s largest city. It is not named the Rocket City for nothing. The Census Bureau...
Column Articles
Remembering My First Job and Telling How You Can Shine in Yours
By GREG MARKLEY Next September marks 50 years since I put on slacks (not blue jeans!) and a tie (remember what that is?) and ventured across state...
Second-Grade Uprising – PART I
By WENDY HODGE In the fall of 1974, there was no shortage of major events to fill the evening news — the oil crisis had recently ended, President...
The Opry
By SEAN DIETRICH Iremember going to see the Grand Ole Opry as a boy. My father drove through the busy city of Nashville. I was five, he was...
Bake Homemade Cookies For Family Treats, After School Snacks
By Ann Cipperly When family walks in the house, there is something wonderful and welcoming about the sweet aroma of cookies baking in the oven....
Making the Grade: Full Moon Bar-B-Que
By Stacey Patton Wallace Some holidays just scream, “Ribs!” Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day come to mind. Now, my husband Mike is the griller...
Less Than Paradise
BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika The Book of Esther is a head turner. It’s about a Jewish woman (Esther), who...
The Influence of One Small Woman
By WALTER ALBRITTON While visiting Methodist mission stations in Southeast Asia, my wife and I worshipped one Sunday at an English-speaking church...
Bulldogs 2-2 After Beating Eufaula
ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL The Opelika High School varsity football team (2-2, R 2-0) forced five fumbles, intercepted three-passes and scored 21...