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City of Auburn, local businesses gearing up for busy graduation weekend City of Auburn, local businesses gearing up for busy graduation weekend By Katie Kamin | April 28, 2021 at 8:52 PM EDT - Updated April 28 at 8:52 PM AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - The school year at Auburn University is coming to a close, and students and families are celebrating this weekend with spring commencement ceremonies. This comes after last year’s graduation saw lots of changes. Auburn University senior Lindsey S...

The East Alabama Medical Centers Community Vaccine Clinic will soon wind down operations as requests for appointments have reached a plateau, according to news release issued by the hospital on Monday.  As of last Friday, the clinic had administered more than 72,000 doses of Pfizers Covid-19 vaccine since it first opened on Feb. 1 during a time when the area was going through the worst surge of the pandemic and EAMC hospitalizations still hovered near 70.  The clinic itself represents a m...

To this observer of the hours-long Feb. 16 Auburn City Council meeting, one Councilperson’s multi-part amendment (which was adopted) to the “Short-term Rental/Homestay Ordinance” looks like an eleventh-hour strategy to undermine the years of work done by the Planning Commission and the Task Force assigned to produce an Ordinance on STRs/Homestays acceptable to the Council and to Auburn’s citizens (512 of whom signed a petition or contacted the Council to support the Ordinanc...

Previous City Manager Jim Buston served Auburn for 25 years. A meeting room in the Engineering Services Building will be named after him.

Jim Buston has worked for the City of Auburn for 25 years, holding the City Manager title for the final few.

As the Covid-19 pandemic stretches its legs into the new year, its showing no signs of going away as it wallops the country harder than at any point since it began in March. The nation, state of Alabama, Lee County residents and the front-line healthcare workers at East Alabama Medical Clinic have been dealing with the impact of the pandemic for almost 10 months, a wearying battle that is poised to continue at least through the summer.  At EAMC, the pandemic peak for hospitalizations has roc...

Hank Aaron, skeptic’s mea culpa, vaccine campouts: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY Alabama Birmingham: The mayors of at least three Alabama cities, including heavily populated Birmingham, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as the illness spreads rapidly across the state following the holidays. The city of Birmingham said Mayor Randall Woodfin was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia Monday, five days after announcing h...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The mayors of at least four Alabama cities have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as the illness spreads rapidly across the state following the holidays. The city of Birmingham said Mayor Randall Woodfin was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia on Monday, five days after announcing he tested positive for the new coronavirus. Decatur Mayor Tab Bowling says he was quarantining at home after tested positive for the virus. And the city of Auburn says Mayor Ron Anders ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Auburn Mayor Ron Anders and other civic leaders took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week to mark the expansion of SiO2 Materials Sciences effort to produce vials that will be used to distribute Covid-19 vaccines around the world.  The new production facility, which is part of the companys $163 million expansion project, will create more than 200 new jobs in the Auburn area.  "We are all excited to celebrate an expansion of SiO2 Materials Science, and we are ...

Governor Ivey Joins COVID-19 Vaccine Vial Production Company at New Facility Ribbon-Cutting Governor Kay Ivey joined leaders of SiO2 Materials Science and other officials Monday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of a facility where the Auburn company has launched production of unique vials to be used in the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. The milestone celebrated at SiO2’s new production facility comes on the heels of a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant ...