Stacey Wallace Articles

Making the Grade: Angel Fire Gourmet Nut Company

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE What is your favorite nut? If this seems like a weird introductory question, you will understand a few paragraphs from now. Without a doubt, my favorite nut is the pecan. Before my sweet Aunt Jenny (Virginia Patton Daugherty) went to be with...

Making the Grade: Walk On’s Sports Bistreaux

Walk On's Sports Bistreaux opened at 3041 Capps Way in Opelika earlier this year.  Pictured is Walk On's boom boom shrimp po' boy with waffle fries. The longer I live in Lee County, the more I grow to love and admire my relatively new home. And I am certainly not...

Making the Grade: On the Road to Alexander City

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE As I’ve mentioned many times in this column, I was born and raised in Alexander City, Alabama (“Eleck” City to the locals). Therefore, I was very proud when I heard that “Alexander City is the second best Southern small town in the country,...

Making the Grade: Franky Junes Express

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE It has always amazed me that my sweet Mama Barbara Patton (not the former mayor of Opelika) could get everything done and done so well: 1. taking care of a husband and three children, 2. working full time in the main office of Russell Mills in...