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Hillary White authors e-cookbook on healthy meals

BY ANN CIPPERLY OPINION — When Hillary Bazemore White became passionate about healthy eating, she assembled quick and easy recipes in an e-cookbook to help other moms prepare nutritious meals for their children. Hillary and her husband, Dr. Evan White, who shares an...

Lunch is served: The Grille at Botanic

BY STACEY WALLACE OPINION — If you are like most people, you have a number of restaurants where you regularly dine. Since Mike and I moved to Auburn in November 2015, we have enjoyed a variety of great restaurants.One restaurant in Opelika, The Grille at Botanic, has...

About today

Hi. You don’t know me. I don’t know you. We’re strangers. But we’re the same, sort of. Only chances are, you drive a nicer car than I do. In fact I guarantee you drive a nicer car.I drive a 25-year-old truck. The tailgate is rusted, there is a prodigious layer of dog...

Did you catch any fish?

OPINION — Peter and his brother Andrew were fishermen. One day, when they were busy casting their nets in the Sea of Galilee, Jesus walked by. Jesus invited the two men to follow him, and added this promise: “I will make you fishers of men.” Their response, as...
Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Shelby’s Last Hurrah Will Benefit Alabamians for Generations OPINION — Richard Shelby’s last week as our United States senator was poetically...

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How To Be a King

How To Be a King

RELIGION — It was always the plan of God for Israel to have a king. Deuteronomy 17:14-20 is one of the passages that tells us this, but there are...

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Living by the Rules

Living by the Rules

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Life is a school in which we learn the rules for living. Successful living is achieved by following the rules. The...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Legislature Organizes for Quadrennium OPINION — The legislature had its every -four-years organizational session earlier this month. It is exactly...

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OHS Pick Up Area Wins

OHS Pick Up Area Wins

OPELIKA — Opelika's varsity girls basetball team (8-12, A1-3) split a pair of games last week, beating LaFayette (56-21) and losing to area foe...

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Mama

Mama

By SEAN DIETRICH They called her Mama. Everyone at Waffle House knew her that way. Few knew her real name. To them, she was “Mama.” “She was...

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