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Opelika City Schools’ budget on track, despite pandemic

By Wil Crewssportscrews@opelikaobserver.com The Opelika City Schools Board met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday at revealed that the school system is on track, budgeted revenue wise, for the first half of the fiscal year. Vice Chairman Kevin Royal opened...
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Local schools issue mask regulations for remaining term

By Wil Crewssportscrews@opelikaobserver.com When Gov. Kay Ivey ended the statewide mask mandate on April 9, Alabama schools were faced with a difficult decision: drop the mask mandate to coincide with Ivey’s new “Safer Apart” order, or continue with the current...
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Exploring and Keeping God’s World

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. God’s world in the spring offers so many nature lessons for young children in listening, seeing, smelling and feeling. We will celebrate Arbor Day on April 30, Earth...
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Van Cleaves Scholarship awarded

Contributed by SUSCC Cha’rae Jones of Lineville is the 2021 recipient of Southern Union State Community College’s Van Cleaves Scholarship. First awarded in 1967, the scholarship is sponsored by the Southern Union Alumni Association in appreciation of Dr. and Mrs. A.R....
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