by The Observer Staff | Jan 18, 2023 | Community, Featured
CONTRIBUTED BY THE CITY OF AUBURN / DAVID D. DORTON AUBURN — Automotive parts supplier Rausch & Pausch LP (RAPA) plans to invest over $25 million in its 70,000-square-foot location in Auburn Technology Park West. The German-based company, which celebrated its...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 18, 2023 | Community, Featured
CONTRIBUTED BY THE CITY OF AUBURN / DAVID D. DORTON AUBURN — Schmidt Automotive, a member of the MAT Foundry Group, is expanding its high-precision and high-volume production in Auburn by investing $7.7 million in new, highly automated equipment. This investment will...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 18, 2023 | Community, Schools
Auburn High School Students Provide Input BY KENDYL HOLLINGSWORTH KENDYLH@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM OPELIKA — Following a string of disputes and resolutions last year, the George and Addie Giddens Cemetery now has plans to be preserved and honored. “Although the trees and...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 18, 2023 | Column, Sean Dietrich
By SEAN DIETRICH I saw him across the crowded restaurant with his elderly parents. They didn’t look like they’d aged a bit. But he did. His face was lean, his skin was wrinkled, he was gaunt. And he still had his trademark sense of humor. I told him I hardly...
by The Observer Staff | Jan 18, 2023 | Column
By SAM DICHIARA Martin Luther King Jr. Day got me thinking about a favorite quote from his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all...