After waiting for funding and donations to come in plus wading through years of yellow tape and paperwork, the Opp Memorial Pool and Park is finally finished. “We had a lot of those residents that came in there and gave, you know, what to them was just as important when they gave $100,” said Opp Mayor John Bartholomew. “It was just as…
At approximately 3:49 PM on Monday, April 11, Opp Police Department officers and Opp Fire Department fire units responded to the 400 block of Forth Street to the report of a traffic crash. Upon arrival, officers found a Ford Explorer had departed the roadway and crashed into a private residence. The operator and only occupant of the Ford Explorer sustained…
The 56th Annual Rattlesnake Rodeo is full of fun, great food, good music and, of course, rattlesnakes. Sometimes, even the people working the event become a part of the tradition. That is true for Don Childre, the rodeo coordinator. He has been wrangling snakes most of his life. “I had fooled with a lot of poisonous snakes as a child,”…
