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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 Sharman will be donning a cap and gown this weekend for graduation. “I’m excited and Iâ€�...

The East Alabama Medical Center's 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 Pfizer's 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 monumental effort by the Auburn-Opelika community to pool its resources to get Covid-19 vaccine dos...

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 Ordinance as approved by the Planning Commission, as opposed to 20 who expressed opposition).  This ongoi...

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.