Pioneer integrated Auburn in 1964 before long career as educator CONTRIBUTED BY AUBURN UNIVERSITY / BY NEAL REID The legacy of Harold A. Franklin, Auburn University’s first African American student, will live on forever through a specially designed desegregation...

CONTRIBUTED BY CWJC “Perhaps the most important thing CWJC has done for me is to know better who I am and what I want. Based on those, I think that I have a chance to move to the next step in my life.”  This is what one recent graduate said marking the end of her...

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. By Beth Pinyerd Nov. 15 through 19 is Geography Awareness Week. Lessons that I really cherish, learned and remembered growing up in Opelika, Alabama, in the 1950’s,...

By Hannah Lesterhlester@opelikaobserver.com  The Auburn University Board of Trustees voted to approve the demolition of the Hill dorms during its meeting Friday morning.  The Hill dorms, comprised of 14 buildings, were constructed in the 1960s and 1990s....