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The Auburn High School Blue MarioKart team won the 2024 AHSAA eSports championship by defeating the Alabama School of Cyber ...

The Lee County Board of Education recognized members of the Beauregard FFA for their recent achievements at state competition ...

The Southern Union State Community College Foundation is excited to announce the creation of a new scholarship in collaborat ...

Auburn Junior High School’s Response to Intervention Coordinator and eighth and ninth grade study skills teacher, Kimberly ...

Looking for a New Year’s Day adventure?Try a First Day Hike at Chewacla State Park CONTRIBUTED BY ALABAMA STATE PARKS LEE ...

BY SAM HENDRIX, SECRETARYAUBURN HERITAGE ASSN. Seventy-five years ago this January, Auburn resident Marianne Jackson Cashatt ...

BY JAMIE ANDERSON, AU COLLEGE OF FORESTRY, WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT Pictured at the ribbon cutting are, from left, KPNC ...

On Saturday, Jan. 11, which is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Worthy Squared will host the first annual Wa ...

RAM Hotels marked an exciting milestone with a topping out ceremony for the AC Hotel by Marriott Auburn, a transformative ...

Auburn Police host city’s annual Toy Drive BY HANNAH BEASLEY FOR THE OBSERVER AUBURN — The Auburn Police Department collected ...

Nearly 200 acres north of U.S. Highway 280 will remain a part of unincorporated Lee County after opposition fro ...