Opelika Daily News https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Governor’s Commission on Classroom Screen Time Holds First Meeting From the Archives: The Day the Rail Leaned Over Downtown From the Archives: Four Sentences That Became Red Clay Brewing Opelika Police Report: Aug. 10-20, 2026 Opelika Opens $500,000 Inclusive Playground at West Ridge Park Opelika Sets Sept. 15 Public Hearing in Latest Round of City Notices Opelika Man Charged With First-Degree Sodomy and Burglary Auburn Council Moves to Cancel $120,000 Flock Safety Camera Contract Auburn IDA Approves $7.8 Million in Incentives for 89-Suite Marriott Hotel Alabama Lawmakers Tout Defense Role After Hanwha’s Opelika Howitzer Award Lee County Schools Adjusts to New Grade-Level Model in Smiths Station Area Southern Union Adds Women’s Flag Football This Fall Opelika City Schools Leaders Headline Chamber’s Business Over Breakfast Week 0 Football: Auburn High Falls to Hewitt-Trussville; Weather Ends Lee-Scott’s Opener Auburn University Band Opens and Closes Band-O-Rama as Nine Area Bands Take Bulldog Stadium Auburn Wraps Fall Camp With Alumni Day as Golesh’s First Preseason Ends Auburn Volleyball Hosts Georgia Tech in Exhibition as Fall Sports Ramp Up CatVideoFest Comes to BOXCAR Theater Sept. 4 as a C.A.R.E. Humane Society Fundraiser On the Tracks Wine Trail Returns to Downtown Opelika Oct. 9 Alabama Supreme Court Extends Tuberville Briefing Schedule; Another Challenge Dismissed Proposed Head Start Overhaul Could Reshape Alabama’s Early Childhood Programs Alabama Public Television Board Postpones Meeting on Contested Survey Funding State Health Officials Say Cyclospora Outbreak Is ‘Slowing Down’ in Alabama Jackson Hospital and Blue Cross Reach Deal to Keep Montgomery Hospital Open Hanwha Wins Army Howitzer Contract Worth Up to $262 Million; Prototypes to Be Assembled in Opelika Opelika Council Revokes Wild Wing Cafe’s Business License, Sets Sept. 1 Hearing for Top Shelf Alternatives Council Approves JoAnn Drive Name Change to Faith Way and $400,000 in Added Street Resurfacing Opelika Library Expands Outreach and Plans a Mobile Book Locker Construction Ready Class Graduates in Opelika as Alabama Faces 3,000 Open Construction Jobs Keep Dorie Miller’s Name on That Carrier Lee County’s Garrett and Robin Dixon Named Alabama’s Outstanding Young Farm Family United Way of Lee County Sets 2026 Day of Caring for Oct. 16 Upcoming Events & Dates — Week of August 24, 2026 Italian Die-Caster 2A USA to Invest $32 Million in Auburn Expansion, Adding 50 Jobs Auburn Council Clears ‘Project V’ Manufacturing Site and Two Student-Housing Redevelopments Auburn Voters Head to the Polls Aug. 25 for Mayor and Two Council Seats Golesh Likes What He Saw in Auburn’s Second and Final Fall Scrimmage Auburn Fall Sports Roundup: Volleyball Hosts Georgia Tech, Soccer Rolls After 5-0 Win Alabama ACA Enrollment Falls 23% After Enhanced Tax Credits Expire Alabama Prison System Signs 287(g) Agreement With ICE Download Daily Briefs Downloads Obituaries From the Archives: The Day Opelika Cut the Ribbon on Miracle Field Upcoming Events & Dates — Week of August 17, 2026 Jones and Tuberville in the Senate: what the record actually says Six years after promising veterans ‘every dime,’ Tuberville’s foundation has gone quiet Opelika Launches New Website and ‘Caboose,’ a 24/7 AI Resident Assistant Garbage Trucks Out of Service Cause Temporary Collection Delays in Opelika Council Set to Vote Aug. 18 on Renaming JoAnn Drive; Sharp Street Bids Open Same Day