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Classroom Observer | Nov. 7, 2024

Children learn thankfulness OPINION — Lee County is beautifully displaying landscapes as leaves are turning. Sunrises and sunsets are brilliant colors. Festivals of gratefulness are being celebrated in our community everywhere and truly, after the initial busyness of...
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Sean of the South | Nov. 7, 2024

Veterans Day OPINION — Boaz is a town about as big as your average water heater closet. It was a quiet night. The sun had set. Houses were lit from the insides.The Bevill Center was packed. The parking lot was slammed. Families of all kinds gathered in the auditorium...
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Southern Hospitality | Nov. 7, 2024

Karen Wall Porter shares recipes, centerpiece ideas for fall entertaining OPINION — With a love for cooking, flowers, art and hospitality, Karen Wall Porter is carrying on her grandmother’s talents for gracious living. Karen has fond memories of growing up in Selma in...
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Classroom Observer | Oct. 31, 2024

The Greatest Generation OPINION — The Greatest Generation includes people born between 1901 and 1927. There are lessons and core values that we can learn from them, not only to strengthen our own personal lives but to strengthen our society as a whole. Let’s keep in...
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Lucky Pot lives up to hype

Lucky Pot lives up to hype

Jan 25, 2024

BY STACEY WALLACE OPINION — As I have probably mentioned before in this column (It’s hard to remember because, unbelievably, I have written for The...

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America’s Aunt

America’s Aunt

Jan 25, 2024

BY SEAN DIETRICH OPINION — Nobody knows when it started. But it did. The first jar of pickles to appear on Aunt Bee’s grave in Siler City, North...

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Out of this world — part two

Out of this world — part two

Jan 25, 2024

BY BRUCE GREEN OPINION — Last week we looked at the “heavenly realms,” a phrase Paul uses five times in Ephesians. We talked about it being 1)...

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We have to live by affirmation

We have to live by affirmation

Jan 25, 2024

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION — He was already 77 years old when I met E. Stanley Jones, but God used that encounter with Brother Stanley to change my...

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Girls wrestling perfoms well

Girls wrestling perfoms well

Jan 25, 2024

BY D MARK MITCHELL BY D. MARK MITCHELL OPINION — WRESTLINGTwo Opelika High student-athletes, Heidi Peralta-Fernandez and Gabrielle Reese, earned a...

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The Race to Watch

The Race to Watch

Jan 25, 2024

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The most interesting race to watch this year in Alabama will be for the newly drawn second con-gressional district.The new...

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