First-ever event promises a dazzling celebration of community spirit CONTRIBUTED BY KOB OPELIKA — Keep Opelika Beautiful (KOB) announces its inaugural H ...

OPELIKA — Opelika head football coach Bryan Moore has been suspended for Friday’s class 7A playoff game against Hoover, after ...

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has taken on The Tutu Challenge. It is challenging Opelika Police Department & Auburn Public ...

In its first season competing, The Oaks School junior high boys team finished second in the state in the Alabama Independent ...

Auburn High School junior running back Omar Mabson has gone the extra yard to secure his name in the school record books with ...

AUBURN — The community is invited to the city of Auburn’s 2024 Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony on Monday, Nov. 11, at 10 ...

Opelika attorney Samantha Copelan is the first woman to be elected Judge of Lee County District Court. Copelan, ...

EAST ALABAMA — Southern Union State Community College (SUSCC) broke ground on construction of an aviation hangar at the Auburn University Regional Airport during an Oct. 31 ceremony. The event ...

Defense has strong showing, but offense struggles to score points PHOTOS BY ROBERT NOLES FOR THE OBSERVER | Misery continued ...

OPELIKA –– The calendar flipping to November means the start of the high school football playoffs, but it also marks the ...

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Ceremony scheduled for Nov. 8 CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER LEE COUNTY — Mercy Medical Ministry invites the community to a ...