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 set to graduate the next month. An editor picked up a teletype message and said to me, “I guess there will be no Beatles...

By Hannah Lesterhlester@opelikaobserver.com The Auburn City Council met Tuesday night and voted against annexing 93.96 acres located on 1100 Ensminger Road. Brett Basquin, representing The Mary W. Vinton Trust, who requested the annexation, spoke during the citizens’...

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 of the, if not the, most Republican states in America. The nation is totally divided into clearly defined ideological...

By Michelle KeyPublisher Nov. 28 is Small Business Saturday and during last week’s city council meeting Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller issued a proclamation of such to encourage citizens to shop in and support the small business community in Opelika. In other business, the...