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On the Mark | Bulldogs show discipline in preseason tune-up

BY D MARK MITCHELL OPINION — The Opelika Bulldogs took another step toward the upcoming football season last week, unveiling brand-new Nike uniforms during picture day and gaining valuable experience in a preseason scrimmage at Pike Road.First-year head coach Jonathan...

Making the grade | Banditos delivers on full flavor

BY STACEY WALLACE OPINION —As I’ve mentioned before in this column, I am a proud Southern woman. I was born in Alexander City (“Eleck” City to the locals), attended Auburn University for my junior and senior years and lived in LaGrange, Georgia, for 26 yearsThen Mike...

Sean of the South | Scents and sensibility

OPINION — I used to write about her all the time. She was just so easy to write about.From the first moment I met Thelma Lou, when she was an itty-bitty puppy, I knew I had found a literary muse. Then, she bit my ear with her puppy teeth. Crimson blood poured down my...

Anchored in truth | Dressed for Battle

BY ROBERT MILLER OPINION — One of the first things I learned in the military was that equipment only helps if you know how to use it. Beginning in Basic Training and carrying over into the everyday life and job of being in the military, we spent countless hours...
Altar Call | Let me out

Altar Call | Let me out

OPINION —Forty years ago, Wally Armbruster published a little book titled “Let Me Out.”It never made the New York Times best-seller list. I read it,...

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Sean of the South | Memorial Day

Sean of the South | Memorial Day

OPINION —The 94-year-old woman gets a jumpstart on Decoration Day every year. The cemetery gets busy at her little church in Elmore County. She...

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