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Auburn Council Calls for Special Meeting for Redistricting

BY HANNAH LESTERHLESTER@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM The Auburn City Council voted to once again postpone the vote on redistricting Tuesday night and called for a special meeting on Jan. 25 to further discuss the topic. The plan was originally proposed in December with a map...

Top words of the year 2021: From ‘Vax’ to ‘Breadcrumbing’ to ‘Cisgender’

By GREG MARKLEY The Name of the Wind (2007) is a novel by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s focus is wizardry and a young man’s coming of age. Rothfuss is a fantasy writer from Wisconsin. One of his quotes is: “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power,...

$10 Million ARPA Funds to be Classified as Revenue Replacement Funds

BY MICHELLE KEY ANDHANNAH LESTER The Lee County Commission voted to accept the classification of $10 million of the $32 million America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds that it has received as revenue replacement funds. In a final ruling that was released on Jan. 6,...

Businessman Tim James Officially Kicks Off Campaign For Governor

Contributed byTim James Campaign Today, Greenville businessman Tim James held a kickoff event at 10 a.m. on the steps State Capitol to announce his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor in 2022. He outlined his platform to make Alabama a national leader...

Lee County Commission caves on budget issues

Lee County Commission caves on budget issues

Nov 9, 2016

By Fred Woods Editor The Lee County Commission reversed itself last Monday night and restored 2017 budget funding cuts to the Horseshoe Bend...

Larry Gray attends final council meeting as Ward 2 representative

Larry Gray attends final council meeting as Ward 2 representative

Nov 1, 2016

By Rebekah Martin Associate Editor Councilman Larry Gray attended his final Opelika City Council meeting tonight in his official capacity as...

Fourteen amendments on Nov. 8 ballot

Fourteen amendments on Nov. 8 ballot

Nov 1, 2016

By Fred Woods Editor Frequently, Alabama voters go to the polls for a general or state-wide election, pick up their ballots and discover a...

Fourteen amendments on Nov. 8 ballot

Opinion: Competition is great for Alabama business but bad for Alabama politics

Oct 26, 2016

By Ken Busby Lee County has had two third party candidates express their intentions to run for elective offices in 2016, who were unable to get on...

Mayor, council recognize city employees with service awards

Mayor, council recognize city employees with service awards

Oct 26, 2016

By Rebekah Martin Associate Editor Mayor Gary Fuller recognized a number of city employees at last week’s city council meeting with service awards....

Fourteen amendments on Nov. 8 ballot

Inside the Statehouse

Oct 19, 2016

By Steve Flowers Ole Bill Baxley has been in the news a lot this year. He was the lead defense counsel for former Speaker Mike Hubbard’s ethics...

Horseshoe Bend Library supporters urge restoration of funding cut

Horseshoe Bend Library supporters urge restoration of funding cut

Oct 19, 2016

By Fred Woods Editor Twenty supporters of the Horseshoe Bend Regional Library, apparently believing county funding for the library had been zeroed...

Busby to wage write-in campaign for District 1 commission seat

Busby to wage write-in campaign for District 1 commission seat

Oct 19, 2016

By Fred Woods Editor Ken Busby has announced that he will wage a write-in campaign for County Commissioner, District 1, in the Nov. 8 General...

Busby to wage write-in campaign for District 1 commission seat

Inside the Statehouse

Oct 12, 2016

by Steve Flowers Our junior U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions has risen to national prominence in this pivotal presidential year. His arch conservative...

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