By Ann Cipperly Located in the Northside Historic District, the enchanting home of Beth and Charlie Brewer is decorated for Christmas with ten...
Brewers enjoy entertaining friends during Victorian Front Porch Tour
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Column Articles
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers One of the really good guys in Alabama government took over the reigns as president of the Alabama Association of County...
Let’s make Christmas merry and bright!
By Beth Pinyerd During the regular school schedule, we families have to multi-task in order to meet needs. We look forward to the schedule slowing...
Super 7 Championships held in the Auburn- Opelika area last week, Opelika basketball splits contests with LaFayette
By D. Mark Mitchell The Opelika High School Swim Team finished 10th (6A/7A Division) in the AHSAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the Martin...
Life among the thorns
Paul’s thorn in the flesh (2 Corinthians 12) can be the gateway to some important and profound truths—and none of them have anything to do with...
When life’s drawing began
By Sarah West I found my direction through drawing upon observations. The more I drew and the more I painted, the clearer my thoughts, ideas and...
Fat’s in the fire
By Hardy Jackson “All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.” - Oscar Wilde Immoral? None of your business....
Groups for the police, or not, need a ‘Big Good John’ to sort things out
By Greg Markley A Grammy winning country song in 1962 was titled “Big Bad John.” It told the legend of a large man, 6-foot, 6-inches, who used his...
Tender Care
By Sean Dietrich Her elderly father sits in a wheelchair in front of a television. It’s an old console TV. The kind every American family had back...