Editorial Board Articles

Editor’s note: Robert Boland’s name was included in the “observer’s” list of great Opelika athletes.   Dear editor, I was a member of the class...

Monday is Veterans Day. That’s the special day we have designated to thank all the men and women who have served our country in its armed services....

We hear all the time, “Oh, we just LOVE the ‘Opelika Observer.’” You love the great stories and photos that fill our pages. You love that we...

Unfortunately, mental health is an issue not often discussed by many. That’s a shame because an estimated one out of every four American adults...

Normally, within the realm of student theatre (especially high school student theatre), audiences are forced to put up with tepid, watered-down...

Editors’ note: For a time now, we’ve given the local daily paper a break from being discussed in our pages. We wanted to give the new staffers a...

During this week’s Lee County Commission meeting, the subject of appointments to one of the commission-appointed citizen boards was on the agenda....

It isn’t just that she was the driving force in putting together and getting out 209 issues of this newspaper - although she did. It wasn’t just the...

To all of us in the Opelika Observer family, she was always Bita Bullet. Somewhere, deep within us, we knew she was actually Rexena Murrielean...