By Sean Dietrich New Year’s Eve always reminds me of an elderly man in town who everyone called “Bug.” He was bad to drink, but nobody ever called...
The Old Year
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Column Articles
Bring in the New Year
Happy New Year y’all. Or ya’ll if that is the way you spell it. I go with “y’all” but a minister friend insists it should be “ya’ll,” and who am I...
Resolve to explore
By Sarah West Between holiday festivities, I’ve spent the final days of this year penning pages, retracing steps and connecting an extensive volume...
2020 Bucket List
By Bradley Robertson I am not a New Year’s resolution gal. I may have made a few here and there in adulthood but nothing ever stuck or was...
Living as exiles
By Bruce Green Peter wrote to “exiles scattered throughout” five Roman provinces. They lived on a land bridge between Europe and Asia that is known...
Opelika basketball teams ring in 2020 with big wins
By D. Mark Mitchell Students returned to class Monday after Christmas break. Most of the OHS student-athletes spent several days away, but members...
Acts of kindness melt away the winter blues
By Beth Pinyerd It was winter 1986. I was a second-grade teacher at Carver Primary in the Opelika City School System. On Jan. 2, 1986, my husband...
Every trial is a pursuit of truth. Will my colleagues in the Senate uphold that?
By Sen. Doug Jones Submitted to the Opelika Observer “Verdict,” from the Latin “veredictum,” means “to say the truth.” Soon, my colleagues in the...
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers Our presidential primary in the Heart of Dixie is less than two months away. We vote on March 3, 2020. President Donald Trump will...