Politics Articles

Auburn Forms Art Study Group

BY HANNAH LESTER The city of Auburn is in the process of forming an art-related study group, which will look at changing the zoning ordinances in the city of Auburn. Recent news has citizens up in arms that the Auburn Zoning Board has called for the removal of a mural...

Smiths Station to Suspend Ambulance Transport Services

CONTRIBUTED BY SSFR Feb. 2022 Smiths Station Fire & Rescue "SSFR" will suspend ambulance transport operations indefinitely. This reduction in services is the direct result of a severe staffing and funding shortage that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19...

Dr. Chris Roberts to Serve As Auburn’s 21st President

BY HANNAH LESTERHLESTER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM The Auburn University Board of Trustees voted to confirm Auburn’s 21st President Dr. Chris Roberts on Friday. Roberts has served as the Dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering since 2012 but began as an assistant...

Pilot Mike Durant Plans a Smooth Landing Into U.S. Senate

By GREG MARKLEY On  Oct. 3, 1993, I was in Hohenfels, Germany. We were in the “maneuver box” playing a war game. A crony of mine said: “This place is muddy, freezing, wet, full of snow and dark practically all day. That must be why they call it Hell.” A few...
Investing in our schools

Investing in our schools

Friends, You and I know that the future of Alabama is only as strong as our schools are today. Here in Lee, Russell, and Tallapoosa counties, our...

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