By Beth Pinyerd As April comes to an end, I love the poem, “April showers bring May flowers!” April showers bring rainbows, too! When I look at...
Rainbow school for young and old
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Column Articles
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers It is a foregone conclusion that a Republican will take out our anomaly liberal Democratic Sen. Doug Jones next year. The question...
Tax season wrap-up: It’s never too early to start planning for next year
By Justin Smith For the Opelika Observer As this year’s regular tax filing season wraps up (don’t worry late filers – Lee County residents still...
Easter
By Sean Dietrich It was the worst Easter Sunday ever. People arrived to service dressed in pastels, wearing those big soupy grins. They were happy...
After the storm
By Lucy Fuller Storms seem to be worse near the water. There is most likely a scientific reason for that, but I have yet to research it. The wind...
Kudzilla
By Hardy Jackson Kudzu. Like the weather, everybody talks about it, but no one does anything about it. Introduced as an ornamental vine and later...
Opelika baseball swept by Russell County to end season
By D. Mark Mitchell Opelika High School’s baseball season ended last Thursday at Bulldog Park, falling 5-3 and 6-4 in a doubleheader sweep against...
Building Upon What Remains
By Sarah West Growing up in the south meant long summer days spent playing in the creek beds, discovering a snake wrapped round a ladder in a...
Playing with Doodlebugs
By Beth Pinyerd As I substitute teach and outreach in different community children’s’ ministries, we are focusing on God’s creation during April....