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The 2022 World Games Will Showcase Alabama By Steve Flowers Allow me to deviate from politics to discuss an important event for our state. The World Games 2022 will place Birmingham and the entire state of Alabama squarely in the global spotlight. Believe it or not,...

Averitt Expres Employees Donate More Than $1 Million to St. Judes

CONTRIBUTED BYAVERITT EXPRESS Setting a company record for its largest-ever contribution, truck drivers and other employees of Averitt Express raised $1,050,001 in 2021 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. The amount is $50,000 more than Averitt’s previous...

ARTHUR C. WARD JR.

Mr. Arthur C. Ward, Jr. 88, of Cortland, passed away Jan. 12, 2022, at the Veterans Administration Hospital, in Syracuse, New York. Arthur was born July 22, 1933, in Salem, Alabama. Arthur was a veteran of the United States Army and a former employee of Cooper Tools...

Lee County EMA Offering Free COVID Test This Week

By Wil Crews The Observer The Lee County Emergency Management Agency in partnership with Alabama Department of Public Health and East Alabama Health is offering free coronavirus tests to Lee County and its surrounding communities through a temporary testing site that...

Solar Eclipse frenzy

Solar Eclipse frenzy

Aug 19, 2017

Limited supply of solar eclipse glasses now available at Almost Anything By Michelle Key Editor People in search of solar eclipse glasses watched...

Bicentennial Beer

Bicentennial Beer

Jul 5, 2017

By Hardy Jackson In case you haven’t noticed, Alabama is in the midst of its Bicentennial Celebration. And how better to mark this historic event...

The Exodus Ranch provides children with home, hope

The Exodus Ranch provides children with home, hope

Mar 8, 2017

By Kris Martins Opelika Observer In the outskirts of Opelika, a loose gravel road winds its way to a white antebellum house sitting on a brick...

Planning Commission grants conditional use requests

Planning Commission grants conditional use requests

Mar 8, 2017

By Morgan Bryce Staff Reporter The Opelika Planning Commission granted a conditional use request during its meeting last Tuesday for a new Subway...

Virtual Reality kits for OCS students

Virtual Reality kits for OCS students

Mar 8, 2017

By Fred Woods Editor Virtual reality. If you can’t actually go and see it first hand, virtual reality is the next best thing. Opelika Board of...

Lee County man writes book on historical Alabama courthouses

Lee County man writes book on historical Alabama courthouses

Mar 7, 2017

By Morgan Bryce Staff Reporter The history of the Lee County Courthouse and Alabama’s 66 other county courthouses is chronicled in a recently...

Planning Commission grants conditional use requests

Gibson-Pitts secures Ward 2 council seat in runoff election

Oct 4, 2016

By Rebekah Martin Associate Editor Tiffany Gibson-Pitts defeated opponent Oscar Penn for the Opelika City Council Ward 2 seat with 63 percent of the...

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

Sep 14, 2016

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT ESTATE OF EARNEST CLIFTON PASCHAL, SR. COURT OF PROBATE Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to the...

Opelika Observer to launch new website

Sep 10, 2016

Staff Reports The Opelika Observer is in the final stages of development of a new website with expanded features and content for the online version...

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