OPINION — We are one week away from Opelika playing Thompson in the 2023 AHSAA Kickoff Classic hosted by the Alabama High School Athletic Directors...
OHS Preparing for Thompson
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Tears At the Classroom Door
As school has started back in our preschools, as well as different childcare situations, we might hear that when young children separate from their...
Inside the Statehouse
Big Jim’s Run for Congress OPINION — We will continue this week with the saga of Alabama’s most colorful governor, the legendary Big Jim Folsom. Jim...
Carter Versus Guinea Disease; McConnell on Polio In Alabama
OPINION — Last week, I focused on the infamous “Killer Rabbit” incident President Jimmy Carter endured in April 1979. He was criticized for lack of...
Bulldogs Biting to Get Back
OPINION — We are less than two weeks from the start of high school football in Alabama. Locally, Lee-Scott and Chambers Academy will play the first...
The Homework Table
Here we are as students and families head into the second week of school and we begin to take on the adventures of homework. I can remember it like...
Inside the Statehouse
Friends and Lawyers OPINION — We continue this week with our series of stories about Alabama’s most colorful governor, the legendary Big Jim Folsom....
President Carter’s Trials, Triumphs — Part 1 — The Killer Rabbit
OPINION — As a sophomore at a New England college, I went to a history class in a new semester with two friends. We sat up front because I prefer...
Making the Grade: Staks Pancake Kitchen
On Nov. 5, 2005, Mike and I were married at Orr Street Baptist Church in my hometown of Alexander City, (“Eleck” City to the locals). We married...