“PREMIERE ISSUE: Community newspaper makes debut in Opelika” That’s what the first above-the-fold headline of the Opelika Observer read when we opened our doors almost four years ago. We feel honored and blessed to have succeeded in our endeavor to create and maintain...

We set out to write an objective editorial about the upcoming special election on whether or not to transfer funds from our state’s oil and gas “savings account” to the beleaguered General Fund Budget,  but the ballot language devised by our esteemable legislature...

We’ll begin by congratulating council members Jones and Gray on their recent electoral victories in the city’s municipal elections. All of Opelika’s city officials were returned to their post, but only Jones and Gray had competition for their positions. Now that our...

We’d like to take this opportunity to once again welcome the widely-respected Bob Sanders to our family of columnists here at the Opelika Observer. We think he fits in far better with our local columnists than he ever did getting edited to death by the daily paper ......