By Steve Flowers Around Labor Day, when this year’s presidential campaign was beginning to heat up, I wrote a column about the classic 1960...
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A career in law enforcement
By Hannah Lesterhlester@opelikaobserver.com John McEachern will stand up from his chair, leave his office and say goodbye to the police department...
NAACP Lee County Branch 5038 plans election of officers
Contributed byNAACP Lee County The NAACP Lee County Branch 5038 has scheduled the election of officers for Saturday Dec. 5, 2020, at Greater Peace...
Adopt-a-Mile for Lee County
By Hannah Lesterhlester@opelikaobserver.com District 2 Commissioner Sarah Brown proposed a new litter campaign during the county commission meeting...
A hard day’s night: the day Beatles icon John Lennon was murdered
By Greg Markley Dec. 8, 1980 was a routine night for me as a copy boy at a newspaper in my native Rhode Island. I was a 24-year-old college student...
Auburn Council votes against annexation and ‘no parking’ zones
By Hannah Lesterhlester@opelikaobserver.com The Auburn City Council met Tuesday night and voted against annexing 93.96 acres located on 1100...
Doug Jones’ annihilation reaffirms mantra that winning the Republican nomination for statewide office in Alabama is tantamount to election
By Steve Flowers The defeat of Democrat Doug Jones in our United States Senate seat race is easy to explain. It is a Republican seat. Alabama is one...
Nov. 28 declared Small Business Saturday
By Michelle KeyPublisher Nov. 28 is Small Business Saturday and during last week’s city council meeting Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller issued a...
“Plantations” are still here, even on my undergrad degree from up north
My name, home state, type of degree, the college president’s name and signature and the chairman of the Board of Regents are all on my sheepskin...