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October 2026
- Oct 15Clint Black and Midland Play the Gogue Center Friday Night
- Oct 15Alabama’s Community Colleges Top 100,000 Students for the First Time Since 2010
- Oct 1599-Year-Old World War II Veteran Bruce Ross Receives a Quilt of Valor at the Opelika Public Library
- Oct 15PACE Invites Lee County to Lace Up for ‘A Sparkling Sneaker Affair’ Scholarship Fundraiser Oct. 22
- Oct 15Auburn High Flag Football Seniors Pearl Simmons and A.K. Jackson Turn Touchdowns and Interceptions Into Diabetes Donations
- Oct 15Lee County Commission Signs Off on Grant Terms for the Loachapoka Park Outdoor Fitness Project and a Five-Lot Highway 51 Subdivision
- Oct 15Auburn Police Charge a Woman With Child Abuse After a 2-Year-Old Is Hurt, and a Man With Assault on Boykin Street
- Oct 15Auburn Soccer Hosts Kentucky Tonight; Men’s Basketball Falls to Florida State and Women Beat UCF in Boutwell Exhibitions
- Oct 15Beulah Man, 39, Identified as Victim of Lee Road 379 Shootout; Georgia Man in Critical but Stable Condition
- Oct 14Lowndes County approves $1.1B in data center tax breaks in 10-minute meeting
- Oct 14Meet Huey: Old, blind and covered in fleas, he’s getting his second chance
- Oct 14Opelika Chamber Honors Nine Lee County First Responders at 2026 Valor Public Safety Awards
- Oct 14EAMC Holds a Wave of Light Ceremony Thursday for Families Who Have Lost a Baby
- Oct 14Auburn’s Zach Dickey Heads to the Power Soccer World Cup in Argentina With Team USA
- Oct 14Zoe’s Ice Cream Delite Lives On as Miriam’s Delite Under Longtime Cook Danny Atteberry
- Oct 14Doug Jones Now Says He Would ‘Phase Out’ the CHOOSE Act, Letting Current Students Finish
- Oct 14Eight Medal of Honor Recipients Coming to Opelika for Freedom Fest Weekend, Nov. 13-14
- Oct 14Lantern Lore: New Downtown Opelika Walking Tours Benefit the Museum of East Alabama, Starting Thursday
- Oct 14Label Maker Maxim Opens an RFID Plant in Auburn, 1.7 Miles From AU’s RFID Lab: $1.4 Million, Up to 15 Jobs
- Oct 14Auburn Basketball Tips Off Tonight Against Florida State in Birmingham; Women’s Golf Wins the Haskins by 30 Strokes
- Oct 14Auburn Police Name Suspected Driver in Fatal Hit-and-Run of Reginald Griffin; Felony Warrants Issued
- Oct 14One Dead, One Hurt in Tuesday Night Shooting on Lee Road 379 in Beulah
- Oct 13Meet Spock, Opelika Daily News’ new adoption reporter
- Oct 13Auburn Police Seek Driver After Hit-and-Run Kills Pedestrian Reginald Griffin, 56, on Shug Jordan Parkway
- Oct 13Auburn Will Be Without Linebacker Xavier Atkins at No. 1 Georgia; Golesh Keeps the Reason ‘In House’
- Oct 13How Isaias Played Out in Lee County: Scattered Outages, Quick Restoration, and Local Firefighters Sent to the Coast
- Oct 13No. 3 Auburn Equestrian Routs No. 1 South Carolina 14-5; Soccer Wins at No. 20 Oklahoma; Volleyball Drops Two on the Road
- Oct 13Amendments 3 and 4 Ask Voters to Put the Pledge, Student-Led Prayer and the National Anthem in Schools Into the Alabama Constitution
- Oct 13Doug Jones Calls for a One-Year Moratorium and No Tax Breaks for Data Centers at a Lowndes County Town Hall
- Oct 13Broadway’s Cheyenne Jackson Opens the Gogue Center’s New Cabaret Series Oct. 26-27
- Oct 12Just One More Email… Really?
- Oct 12Featured Listing: A 1925 Cottage With a Detached Studio
- Oct 12What It Costs Just to Get By in Lee County: $84,504 for a Family of Four
- Oct 12Opelika Police Report: Oct. 5-11, 2026
- Oct 11Sunday Funnies
- Oct 10Prep Scoreboard: Oct. 8-9
- Oct 9Isaias Strengthens to Category 3; Lee County Should Expect the Worst From 7 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday
- Oct 9Isaias Weekend Changes: On the Tracks Postponed, Opelika’s Tour de Fright Canceled
- Oct 9Jalen Nelson Scores Five Touchdowns as Opelika Routs Dothan 49-28 in a Game Moved to Thursday by Isaias
- Oct 9Big Weekend for Auburn Sports Despite Isaias: No. 3 Equestrian Faces No. 1 South Carolina Today, Soccer at No. 20 Oklahoma Tonight
- Oct 9Alabama Public Schools Lost About 12,000 Students Last Year, Nearly Double the Prior Drop, State Superintendent Says
- Oct 9Ethics Commission Says Alabama Officials May Use Campaign Money for Lawsuits Tied to Their Office
- Oct 8Lee County Under a State of Emergency as Hurricane Isaias Heads for the Gulf Coast; Rain, Gusts and Isolated Tornadoes Possible Saturday
- Oct 8Zach Bryan’s Jordan-Hare Concert Saturday Is Still On, Auburn Says, as It Watches Isaias
- Oct 8Isaias Cancels Auburn Baseball’s Fall Exhibition With Florida State in Pensacola
- Oct 8GE Aerospace Foundation Puts $1 Million Into Aerospace Job Training in the Auburn-Opelika and Montgomery Region
- Oct 8Opelika’s Burgers & Badges Becomes ‘Municipal Mayhem,’ a United Way Fundraiser Oct. 17 at Municipal Park
- Oct 8New Faculty Senate Law Takes Effect, and Auburn Went Further Than Most Alabama Universities
- Oct 8Amendment 2 on the Nov. 3 Ballot Would Let County School Boards Merge if Local Voters Agree
- Oct 7Opelika–Dothan football game moved to Thursday and to Opelika ahead of Hurricane Isaias
- Oct 7Opelika Adopts New Package Liquor Store Rules and Awards a $975,000 I-85 Sewer Contract
- Oct 7Auburn Council Splits 4-4, Killing the Proposed Pause on New Downtown Lounges
- Oct 7Opelika Council Sends $310,000 to City Schools, Funds Nonprofits and Rejects a Settlement in a Bed-and-Breakfast Dispute
- Oct 7Auburn Council Awards $9.87 Million for the First Phase of North Donahue Drive Widening
- Oct 7PSC Will Now Publicly Vote on Alabama Power’s Data Center Contracts, but Silence for 90 Days Still Means Yes
- Oct 7Four Seasons Credit Union Breaks Ground Oct. 14 on a $5 Million Rebuild of Its Pepperell Parkway Branch
- Oct 7Two VA Suicide Prevention Grants Will Expand Help for Lee County Veterans
- Oct 7Auburn-Opelika Rallies Behind ‘ABLE,’ a Down Syndrome Film Set to Shoot Locally in 2027
- Oct 7Auburn Basketball Lands Four-Star Brentwood Forward Davis Cochran, Its Second 2027 Commitment
- Oct 7Picture Ukraine on top of Alabama: How big it is, how much Russia holds, and the history under fire
- Oct 6Make Board Games Great Again: Canadian teens’ “American Dictator?” passes 20,000 sales
- Oct 6Jefferson Ross and Todd Hoke Live at the AUUF — Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series
- Oct 6Opelika Man Killed in Chambers County Shooting; Another Opelika Man Charged With Murder
- Oct 6Opelika Opens Bidding for Its Employee Health Clinic After the Council Asked for Competition
- Oct 6Golesh on Auburn’s Offense Going Into the Open Week: ‘That’s the Part That Eats at Me’
- Oct 6Auburn’s Gracie Brown Named SEC Defensive Player of the Week After the Shutout of No. 13 Tennessee
- Oct 6Jones and Tuberville Raise Almost Exactly the Same in September, but Tuberville Has Triple the Cash on Hand
- Oct 6State Rep. Brett Easterbrook and a Former Satsuma School Board President Charged With Attempted Human Trafficking in a Sting
- Oct 6East Alabama Health Offers Free Mammograms for Uninsured Women Oct. 23 in Valley and Oct. 30 in Auburn
- Oct 6Opelika’s Community Relations Team Wins a National Savvy Award for Its Tunnel to Towers 9/11 Campaign
- Oct 5Working, but Not Getting By: 4 in 10 Lee County Households Fall Below the ALICE Line
- Oct 5Opelika Police Report: Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, 2026
- Oct 5Alabama Voter Deadlines for Nov. 3: Register by Oct. 19
- Oct 5Upcoming Events & Dates — Week of October 5, 2026
- Oct 5Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas Sue New York, California and Massachusetts in the Supreme Court Over Abortion Shield Laws
- Oct 5Trump Tells Mobile Rally to ‘Pretend I’m on the Ballot’ as Tuberville and Alabama GOP Nominees Open
- Oct 5Gov. Ivey Removes Five of Seven Alabama Public Television Commissioners Days After Survey Backed Keeping PBS
- Oct 5No. 3 Auburn Equestrian Beats No. 5 SMU 12-7 in a Top-Five Meet; No. 2 South Carolina Visits Friday
- Oct 5Auburn Volleyball’s Eight-Match Streak Ends in a Home Weekend Against No. 3 Kentucky and No. 11 Tennessee
- Oct 5Opelika Officer Connor Ramey Named Piedmont’s First Friday Hero for Saving a Man in Cardiac Arrest
- Oct 5Dead Fish in Halawakee Creek Traced to a Leaking Sewer Manhole; Opelika and ADEM Investigating
- Oct 5Opelika Seeks Licensed Contractors for Federally Funded Home Repair Program
- Oct 5October at Whistle Stop: Singo Bingo, Live Music, a Halloween Theme Night and More
- Oct 4Bishop’s 220 Yards Carry No. 17 Tennessee Past Auburn 24-14 in Golesh’s Return to Knoxville
- Oct 3Prep Scoreboard: Oct. 1-2
- Oct 2ODN Readership More Than Tripled in September
- Oct 2Opelika at Auburn High Tonight: The 102nd Meeting, With Second Place in 6A Region 2 on the Line
- Oct 2Big Home Weekend for Auburn: Volleyball Hosts No. 3 Kentucky Tonight and No. 11 Tennessee Sunday; No. 3 Equestrian Meets No. 5 SMU
- Oct 2Auburn Soccer Holds No. 13 Tennessee Without a Shot for 78 Minutes in a 1-0 Win, Armstrong’s First Ranked Victory
- Oct 2Kreher Preserve’s Halloween Enchanted Forest Lights Up the Trails Tonight and Saturday
- Oct 2Opelika Main Street Expands Its Downtown Facade Grant, Adding Up to $25,000 for Fire and Safety Upgrades
- Oct 2Auburn’s First ‘Top Dog’ Competition Puts Detection Dogs From Opelika, Auburn and Two States to the Test
- Oct 2Auburn’s Fall Hazardous Waste Collection Day Is Saturday, Oct. 10, With Free Shredding and Electronics Recycling
- Oct 2United Way: 41% of Lee County Households Can’t Reliably Afford the Basics, as October Becomes ‘Understanding ALICE Month’
- Oct 2Council Tuesday: Package Store Rules Up for Final Vote, $2.3 Million More for Health Insurance
- Oct 1Two Men Who Allegedly Posed as Police and Robbed an Auburn Home at Gunpoint Arrested in Washington and California
- Oct 1Auburn Soccer Hosts No. 13 Tennessee Tonight in Its Kick Out Cancer Match on SEC Network
- Oct 1Food Writer and ‘TrueSouth’ Host John T. Edge Talks Tonight at the Opelika Public Library
- Oct 1Appeals Court Upholds Capital Murder Conviction in Lee Road 188 Killing Near Waverly
- Oct 1Lee County Supporters Launch a Write-In Campaign for Sheriff Jay Jones
- Oct 1Auburn High Flag Football Shuts Out Opelika 26-0 at Duck Samford
- Oct 1Agriculture Commissioner Race: Mayor Corey Hill vs. Former Commissioner Ron Sparks
- Oct 1Alabama Public Television’s Own Survey Finds 54% Want to Keep PBS
- Oct 1Friends of the Preserve Lead a Free Fall Bird and Butterfly Walk at Wood Duck Nature Preserve Saturday
- Oct 1Fox Run Village Neighbors Throw a Dolly Parton Party to Help The Exodus Ranch
- Oct 1The Witching Hour #2: Early DC Horror at Its Best
- Oct 1Lee County had its busiest homebuying month of 2026 in July — and a third more homes for sale
September 2026
- Sep 30Featured Listing: Four Bedrooms on a Corner Lot at Wyndham Gates
- Sep 30Beat Bama Food Drive Kicks Off Today With Gov. Ivey at the Governor’s Mansion
- Sep 30Myra Stephenson Named Arts Facility Manager at the Barbara Patton Southside Center for the Arts
- Sep 30Opelika Vietnam Veteran Finds a Boyhood Friend’s Name on the Wall During the Wiregrass Honor Flight
- Sep 30Opelika High Theatre Director Revel Gholston Inducted Into the Alabama Conference of Theatre Hall of Fame
- Sep 30Family Roots Nursery Hosts Its First Autumn Acres Family Fest, Free, on Oct. 10
- Sep 30Think Pink Marks 22 Years Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Spencer Cancer Center
- Sep 30Mark Ennis Returns to Lead Opelika Power Services, Where His Career Began in 1986
- Sep 30Lee County Commission Passes an $80 Million Budget With 5% Raises and Seeks a Grant to Replace a 4-Ton Bridge
- Sep 30Former Auburn Football Scouting Assistant Charged With Stealing Recruiting Secrets and Sending Them to Rivals
- Sep 30Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3: The Chase Is On
- Sep 30Ukraine’s Drone Makers Are Building Factories Abroad. Here’s How Many Jobs They Promise
- Sep 29The Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs Live at the AUUF — Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series
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