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 chance to find their footing here locally - a ‘honeymoon’ or ‘grace’ period. That time has now lapsed. As they say - “Game...

During this week’s Lee County Commission meeting, the subject of appointments to one of the commission-appointed citizen boards was on the agenda. All of the incumbent board members whose terms are expiring wish to be reappointed, and an interested citizen not already...

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 endless litany of office tasks - filing, faxing, scanning, billing - she always took care of, usually with a cheery...

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 Hubbard Barrington, but Bita and Rex will always be one and the same to us. She never missed a deadline - the only one of our...