by The Observer Staff | Jan 4, 2023 | Community
CONTRIBUTED BYTHE CITY OPELIKA OPELIKA — The Fuller Center for Housing is a nonprofit organization seeking to eliminate poverty by promoting partnerships with individuals and community groups to build and restore homes for those in need. They will be building three...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 4, 2023 | Community, Events
CONTRIBUTED BYGIRL SCOUTS OFSOUTHERN ALABAMA ALABAMA — Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama kicked off Girl Scout Cookie season Jan. 1, as Girl Scouts and their troops rally the community to support the world’s largest entrepreneurial program for girls. Stock up on all the...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 4, 2023 | Community, Featured
BY MICHELLE KEY MICHELLE@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM OPELIKA — Opelika has lost one of its popular meat-and-three, country-style restaurants. Susie K’s, owned by Suzanne and Timothy Lowery, decided to shutter its doors at the end of the year. New Year’s Eve was...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 4, 2023 | Obituaries
Shirley Long Pope, 87, of Opelika, was born on Feb. 2, 1935, and passed away on Jan. 1, 2023. She was a member of the Opelika First Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Ora Lea Garrett Long and William Press Long Sr. She was preceded in death by her...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 4, 2023 | Community
As part of Wreaths Across America’s national initiative, Wreaths Across America Day, members of the Opelika community traveled to Ft. Mitchell National Cemetery in Russell County on Dec. 16 to lay wreaths on the gravestones of fallen veterans. Every year,...
