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AUBURN — Excelsior Etcetera will stage “Drinking Habits” by Tom Smith Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. at 910 N. Indiana Ave., inside the First Christian Church.

It was a night for handing out well-earned awards to educators and students at Tuesday’s monthly meeting of the Lincoln County Board of Education.

Three weeks ago, I hung up my community Santa hat and said a very bittersweet goodbye after 14 years of working at the “silver bells” nonp ...

AUBURN — Auburn Main Street has announced the appointment of new board member Brandon Anderson.

AUBURN — With just a few weeks until actors were set to take to the stage in performances of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” last December, Excelsior Arts Academy and Youth Theater Executive Director Kent Johnson was forced to cancel the show. Cases of COVID-19 were on the rise, and while the First Christian Church in Auburn was the perfect setting to tell the Christmas story, there was not the room needed for the cast to socially distance backstage, Johnson explained. “Th...

Lightner has served on the organization’s design committee as well as several boards across DeKalb County. “Zach is in a great position to carry the momentum of AMS from our previous president, Eldon Byler,” said AMS Executive Director Ann Finchum. Lightner, a Fort Wayne native, lives in Auburn with his wife, Kristin, and their three children. He graduated from Purdue University with a business management degree and earned his law degree from the Indiana University McKinney Schoo...