By SAM DICHIARA You’ve either experienced it yourself or at least heard of it: Your family is gathered around a table for Thanksgiving dinner when...
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Making the Grade: The Flying Biscuit Café
By STACEY PATTON WALLACE Many changes have come about in education in the last few decades. One class that has fallen by the wayside is home...
Dietrich Dazzles at Opelika Public Library
BY WIL CREWS SPORTSCREWS@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM OPELIKA — A large crowd gathered at the Opelika Public Library last Thursday night to see acclaimed...
More On Truth Telling
By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — The witness section of Deuteronomy 19:15-21 should lead us to think about truth telling as it relates to the community of...
Feel Trapped? Here’s a Way Out
By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — I enjoy the company of positive people who affirm that “Life is good.” Life is good and too short to spoil it with...
Good
By SEAN DIETRICH I saw him across the crowded restaurant with his elderly parents. They didn’t look like they’d aged a bit. But he did. His face was...
Work Worth Doing
By SAM DICHIARA Martin Luther King Jr. Day got me thinking about a favorite quote from his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “We are caught in an...
Taste of Chocolate Returns for 20th Year
By ANN CIPPERLY After a two-year absence due to COVID-19, the Taste of Chocolate returns for its 20th year Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 5:30 until 7 p.m....
Banning Books, Not Reading Them, is Still in Vogue
OPINION — In ninth grade we read “Slaughterhouse-Five.” That was in 1970 at a Catholic high school in New England. This Kurt Vonnegut book has faced...