Category: Auburn

East Alabama Health will hold a Wave of Light ceremony Thursday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m. to mark Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. It is open to the public. The ceremony will be in the East Alabama Medical Center Memorial Garden behind Labor Management, 511 E. Thomason Circle in Opelika. Candles will be lit in remembrance and the babies' names read aloud. “This ceremony offers a quiet, sacred space for families to honor their… Read More

Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Fla., around 8:30 p.m. Friday as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, weaker than the Category 3 it reached Friday morning, then tracked slightly east toward central Alabama before weakening to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday, the Alabama Reflector reported. The hardest-hit parts of the state were in the south, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency said, with a “sting jet” of destructive wind causing widespread tree damage… Read More

Hurricane Isaias strengthened to a Category 3 storm with 120 mph winds Friday morning and is moving northeast at 15 mph toward a landfall expected tonight, Auburn University's Office of Emergency Management said in its 8 a.m. update. The Alabama Emergency Management Agency expects landfall between 9 p.m. and midnight somewhere between Gulf Shores and Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. Lee County remains under a Tropical Storm Watch . Tropical Storm Warnings reach as far north… Read More

Lee County is one of 40 Alabama counties under a state of emergency declared by Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday as Isaias moves toward the northern Gulf Coast, the Alabama Reflector reported. Chambers, Macon, Russell and Tallapoosa counties are also included. The order runs through Oct. 14. "While I hope for minimal impacts, we must take preparations seriously," Ivey said. Isaias became a hurricane on Thursday. The Alabama Emergency Management Agency expects landfall Friday night… Read More

This is a brief follow-on to a story first reported by The Observer , Opelika's community newspaper. Read their full story for complete coverage. A proposed temporary ban on new lounges in and around downtown Auburn failed Tuesday night, Oct. 6, on a 4-4 Auburn City Council vote, The Observer reported. Mayor Ron Anders was absent because of illness. The council had postponed the vote in September to hear from business owners and residents. Council… Read More

This is a brief follow-on to a story first reported by The Observer , Opelika's community newspaper. Read their full story for complete coverage. Lee County veterans will have more community-based suicide prevention help this fall under two federal grants announced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, The Observer reported. Southeastern Vet to Vet Peer Support Inc. received $750,000 to serve veterans in Lee, Montgomery, Macon, Tuscaloosa, Randolph, Russell and Chambers counties in Alabama… Read More

This is a brief follow-on to a story first published by The Observer , Opelika's community newspaper. Read their full story for complete coverage. An independent film about a young woman with Down syndrome is gathering support across Auburn and Opelika, and the community's backing has moved its planned filming from Atlanta to the Auburn-Opelika area, according to a story by Preston Sparks of Auburn University published in The Observer. Filming of "ABLE" is expected… Read More

East Alabama Health will hold two "Free Mammogram Days" this month for women in east Alabama who have no health insurance. The first is Friday, Oct. 23, at EAMC-Lanier Rural Emergency Hospital in Valley. The second is Friday, Oct. 30, at the Breast Health Center on the third floor of the Auburn Medical Pavilion, 900 Camp Auburn Road. To qualify, a woman must be medically uninsured, 40 or older and not have had a mammogram… Read More

This is a brief follow-on to a story first reported by The Observer , Opelika's community newspaper. Read their full story for complete coverage. Auburn University held its first Top Dog Performance Competition at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum, bringing police and security dog teams from Auburn, Opelika and other agencies in Alabama and Georgia together to compete for the Dog Bowl Trophy, The Observer reported. The event was held alongside Homecoming, when the Auburn University dog… Read More

Auburn residents can get rid of old paint, chemicals and other household hazardous materials for free at the city's fall Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, Oct. 10, according to the City of Auburn. The drop-off runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Environmental Services Complex, 4277 Wire Road, Suite 100. It is meant for materials that can't legally go out with weekly garbage collection. The city will also take paper documents for… Read More

The United Way of Lee County is spending October on what it calls Understanding ALICE Month, a push to explain the money pressures on working families across the county, the Opelika-Auburn News reported. ALICE stands for Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed. These households have jobs but don't earn enough to cover the basic cost of living month after month. The United Way says 15,415 Lee County households, or 21% of the total, fit that description. Another 20%… Read More