On the MarkBy D. Mark Mitchell The Opelika girls track and field team participated in the “Auburn Early Bird” meet at Auburn High School on Friday,...
Column Articles
IRS delays filing deadline
By Justin SmithFor the Opelika Observer The Internal Revenue Service announced that it will delay this year’s filing deadline by one month from...
A year into a pandemic, truckers continue to deliver for Alabama
By Tom McLeod I’s difficult to believe that it has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit America, closing businesses, stalling commerce and...
My second home: Celebrating 40 years of adventure at Hartsfield-Jackson
By Greg Markley I do not come from a family of frequent flyers. Air travel was rarer and costlier in the 1960s and 1970s when I was a child. A...
Whitmire: Different year, same old fight, but a new champion for open government
By Kyle Whitmire kwhitmire@al.com This is an opinion column. Alabama doesn’t work like other states on a lot of things, but especially when it comes...
IN THE STATEHOUSE
2022 Will be a big year for Alabama politics By Steve Flowers All signs point to a Titanic political year in 2022. In fact, as I look back over the...
Experience The Joy of Reading To Young Children
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. Young children have so many visual aids to...
Eggs and Bacon
By Sean Dietrich I was a young man. Four of us guys walked into an average Florida Panhandle Waffle House before sunrise. We did this every morning...
Jesus, John and Mary
By Bruce GreenTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika “Here is your son” (v. 26), Jesus said to His mother. In contrast to...