Read Local Stories
A collection of stories from Auburn and Opelika
Leaning Into Community
A friend of mine takes me to see the wisteria near my apartment. He walks me through a path I know so well, past the baseball field, parking lot, and playground, where we would normally be having picnics to celebrate the arrival of spring. For now, we make due with the laggy FaceTime signal, filling 222 miles of distance with talk of muscadines, my eventual return to Auburn, everything but the coronavirus…
Making an Impact in a Socially Distant World
When the hard, unexpected and just plain bad comes, there’s almost always some good to be found in the midst of it all. We talked with three people from our community that, when faced with a worldwide outbreak of an unexpected disease that has affected millions, decided to not wait to find that good but be the ones who create it…