Column Articles

One Good Way to Love Your Neighbor

By Walter Albritton The word “herd” became an acceptable part of my vocabulary in childhood. My dad was an honorable man who served others by farming. By the sweat of his brow, he wrestled with the ground to produce the food with which he fed his family. Beginning...

Thank you to my children, for training me up

By BRADLEY ROBERTSON ''Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not stray from it.” Proverbs 22:6 I have always seen these words from my parent to child point of view. Always thinking to myself, “I must train them up properly. I must lead...

Commercial Break

By WENDY HODGE Remember the NBC Sunday Night at the Movies? Way back in the 70s and 80s, NBC had a running Sunday night schedule featuring made for TV movies and miniseries. Advertisements played for days ahead with teaser trailers that promised a “family event” that...

Laura Cooper is ‘mom to many’ at unique center for children, youth

By Ann Cipperly While Laura Cooper has a child of her own, she is also a “mom of many” as the executive director of the Lee County Youth Development Center (LCYDC) in Opelika. Laura has served in this position for 21 years at the center that has helped thousands of...

Leprosy and other zooneses

Zoonoses are diseases in animals transmissible to humans directly or indirectly, perhaps by infected ticks.. I have, in recent columns, mentioned...

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Inside the Statehouse

At this time of year Washington, D.C. is a beautiful place to visit. The city is aglow with the blooming of the cherry blossom trees. The cherry...

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Storm cellars

A while back, three generations of us were wandering around and we came to the old Matthews place---where Uncle Audie and Aunt Tezzie and Betty Jane...

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Inside the Statehouse

As the budget hearings began for the 2016 Legislative Session in January the largest Powerball lottery sweepstakes in American history was playing...

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My home is Opelika

Because of my time in the army and other changes in my life, I’ve lived in a lot of places. Those places include Louisiana, Oklahoma, Washington...

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