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Auburn Council Approves Conditional Use For Downtown Fitness Center

BY HANNAH LESTERHLESTER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM At Tuesday night's Auburn City Council meeting, the  council approved a resolution for conditional use approval for a commercial and entertainment use as a fitness studio for the bottom floor of The Standard. The...

Colin Powell Knew How to Treat People — Even The Unruly Press

By GREG MARKLEY Colin Powell, son of Jamaican immigrants in Harlem, rose to the zeniths of American authority—military, diplomatic and moral. Admiration for him after his death Oct. 18 echoed his popularity in life. Sorrow on his death at age 84 crossed the political...

International Charity Fraud Awareness Week is Oct. 18 to 22

CONTRIBUTED BY THEOFFICE OF STEVE MARSHALL Attorney Gen. Steve Marshall is joining with state charities regulators and the Federal Trade Commission to observe International Charity Fraud Awareness Week from Oct. 18 to 22. This is a coordinated campaign to help...

ROGERS MOURNS PASSING OF GENERAL COLIN POWELL

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), Lead Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, released a statement mourning the death of former Secretary of State General Colin Powell. “I am saddened to learn of the passing of General Colin Powell. He served his...
Why do vaccine rights matter?

Why do vaccine rights matter?

Special to the Opelika Observer The Nuremburg Code guarantees personal autonomy. If we allow legislature to violate our rights to medical freedom,...

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