Special to the Opelika Observer It’s that time of year again. The Alabama Legislature is only days from its opening session, and lawmakers across the state are drafting bills they say will make Alabama better. As in years past, some special interest groups – big-box...

My granddaughter’s future is brighter because of the Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund. When we moved to Birmingham from Talladega County in 1993, my son attended a Birmingham public school where he was bullied. Because I could not afford to move or to send him to...

By Beth Pinyerd For the Opelika Observer “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise!” This is true in not only making all A’s on the academic report card, but also on keeping a “good health” report card. One of the first instructions we...

By Beth Pinyeard For the Opelika Observer The goal of this article is not to make readers sad or gloomy, but from my desire to help them know and understand that grief is a normal process we go through in the loss of a love one. There are other losses in our lives...