While the city is not hosting an official Memorial Day ceremony this year, be sure to take time to remember and give thanks for the men and women...
Relax with a cook-out at home or at the lake for celebrating Memorial Day
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Column Articles
Graduation
It is graduation season. Colleges. High schools. Grade schools. Even kindergartens bring families together to celebrate. Only not this year. Of all...
ACTION
I am on camera. There is a film crew standing around me. They are all wearing surgical masks. This is my first day out of quarantine, and we are...
IN DREAMS
Last night, there was a horrible storm brewing. Thunder rumbled low and long in the distance, and the lightning cracked across the sky. I was...
Farewell, Opelika Observer family
Speeding down Highway 51 on March 8, 2019, I remember a feeling of being caught up and overwhelmed in the moment. I was riding in a white van, only...
In the Statehouse
Steve Flowes The 1965 Special Succession Session The legislature meets in regular session every year for three-and-a-half months. However, an...
The Prosperity Challenge
By Bruce Green Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christ in Opelika Deuteronomy 8 should be required reading for everyone as we make our way...
In search of old timey recipes from a southern farmhouse kitchen
Photo by Ann CipperlyFarmhouse Blackberry Cobbler makes a scrumptious dessert baked in an iron skillet or baking pan. It is good served as is or...
HOUNDS
By Sean Dietrich DEAR SEAN: Can I babysit your dog sometime? I have always wanted a bloodhound, and my mom says no. But I read once where you let...