Community Articles

Keys for Kids

Guests gathered at Spring Villa Lodge in Opelika on Sept. 24 for Keys for Kids, a dueling-piano fundraiser benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of East Alabama. The evening featured two pianists, a drummer, audience song requests, comedy and live entertainment, with...

Understanding ALICE Month

CONTRIBUTED BY UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY OPELIKA — This October, the United Way of Lee County is launching Understanding ALICE Month, a monthlong effort to help the community better understand the financial challenges facing working households in Lee County and the...

Rivals on the field, united against hunger

The annual Beat ‘Bama Food Drive is underway, continuing a 32-year competition between Auburn University and the University of Alabama to see which school can collect the most food for its local food bank before the annual football rivalry game. Auburn won last year’s...

Fallen Stars of East Alabama | Part 2

Patriot graves stretch across Lee and neighboring counties Publisher’s Note: This article, originally published in Tap Roots by the Genealogical Society of East Alabama, is being presented as a four-part series because of its length and the number of local...