By SEAN DIETRICH Nineteen kids came romping up the golden staircase, taking two steps at a time, sprinting toward the mother-of-pearl gates. It’s a...
Homecoming
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Column Articles
Winners Announced In 47th Annual Heritage Cooking Contest
By Ann Cipperly On a recent sunny afternoon at the Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church on Society Hill Road, participants in the 47th annual...
Making the Grade: All I Do is BBQ
By STACEYPATTON WALLACE AUBURN — Two weeks ago, Barbara Patton, my sweet Mama, went to be with the Lord. Overwhelming grief and insomnia have been...
Listen Up!
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Dozens of football players are on the practice field exercising. They are talking to each other. Suddenly they hear a...
The Fellowship of His Sufferings
By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika RELIGION — As we read through the gospels, we come across a number of...
OHS Graduation Exercises
ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL OPELIKA — Opelika High School held graduation exercises for the class of 2022 last Friday night at Bulldog Stadium. Dr...
2022 Summer Fun, Safety and Family, We Welcome You!
By Beth Pinyerd Memorial Day has come and gone and summer days are upon us, we can set the ground rules for each of our families to have an...
Inside the Statehouse
TV Still Drives the Vote By Steve Flowers After the 1960 Kennedy vs. Nixon classic presidential contest, television became the medium for political...
In the U.S. Senate, silence is not always golden
By GREG MARKLEY OPINION — In Moonstruck (1987), Cher’s character is at the opera and dating her fiance’s brother. She sees her father Cosmo with his...