by The Observer Staff | Aug 31, 2022 | Column, Community
BY GUEST COLUMNIST TIPI MILLER, UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY DIRECTOR OPINION — Just last month, our local United Way kicked off its annual campaign to raise the funds needed to support 22 area agencies and maintain a community emergency fund. The goal this year: $925,000...
by The Observer Staff | Aug 31, 2022 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BY LCSO LEE COUNTY — The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is launching a T-shirt fundraising campaign to benefit EAMC Foundation’s Spencer Cancer Center Patient Assistance Fund. This fund is used to provide wigs and prosthetic bras, and assist with other...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 17, 2014 | Community
By Fred Woods Editor Thanks to action by the Lee County Commission this week, qualifying Lee County government retirees and their beneficiaries will receive a one-time lump sum bonus of at least $300 in October of this year. The bonus, the result of Act 2014-429 of...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 17, 2014 | Community
By Donna Williamson Opelika Observer Kathleen Chapman grew up with law enforcement. Her father was in law enforcement in Lineville. Her husband Herman, who served as a military policeman during World War II, began his law enforcement career with the Alabama Highway...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 17, 2014 | Politics
By Greg Markley Opelika Observer If everyone who voted in the Republican runoff election in Lee County on Tuesday took a seat at Auburn University’s Plainsman Park, there would still be some 2,300 seats unoccupied. Spurts of hard rain, the fact that Democrats had no...
