By Wendy Hodge This world’s a noisy place. In all things, from advertising blaring at us from the television, radio, and Internet to technology...
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Column Articles
Serve assorted fresh vegetables before summer harvest ends
By Ann Cipperly Days are slowing getting shorter, and soon summer will be gone, as well as the bounty of garden fresh vegetables. The Opelika...
Inside the Statehouse
You know the results of Tuesday’s primaries for our U.S. Senate seat. I had to go to press before the vote. However, the assumption was that there...
OHS Sports Roundup
By D. Mark Mitchell The Opelika football team completed their first full week of fall practice with a scrimmage Friday afternoon inside Bulldog...
OHS Sports Roundup
By D. Mark Mitchell Opelika City Schools started classes for the 2017-18 school year. The Bulldog football team officially started fall practice...
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers Folks we are getting down to the proverbial lick log in the much-anticipated vote for the open U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff...
Substitute teacher enjoys preparing recipes from family, Texas friends
By Ann Cipperly It was easy to find Brenda Harris’ home with a “Yard of the Month” sign on her well manicured lawn. Brenda, a substitute teacher at...
The musician
By Sean Dietrich Opelika, Alabama—this is an old home. The kind of house with frilly curtains, decorative plates, and linoleum floors....
Going to school beat cottonpicking
By Bob Sanders Man, I was always glad for school to start back. It was not, you understand, that I had much reverence for Academe. But consider the...