On April 15, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Senate Bill 252, the Community Pharmacy Relief Act, into law. This act is seen as a crucial step towards protecting Alabama's local pharmacies.
Auburn University senior in software engineering Matthew Rogers recently released a website forming a heatmap visualization of crime statistics around Auburn University. The website creates an image showing the usually unseen prevalence of crime on the Plains.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, 112 pharmacies across Alabama closed to express support for Senate Bill 93 in the Alabama legislature. While no pharmacies in the Auburn–Opelika area walked out, many aimed to support the bill in other ways, like displaying black bows or balloons. Bubba's Drugs in Opelika turned off their phones for an hour and a half and set a message expressing support for the bill. Jim's Drugs in Dadeville and Beauregard Drugs are the nearest pharmacies that closed.
Beaverstock won the presidential election by a margin of 2,061 votes, collecting 62.06% of the vote.
SGA presidential candidates Owen Beaverstock and Jake Yohn have been making significant efforts to connect with students on Haley Concourse throughout the week leading up to election day.
Last week, after Auburn’s historic snowfall from Winter Storm Enzo, the blankets of white snow were marred by a racial slur written underneath the window of Sasnett Hall, one of the dormitories in The Hill residential community of Auburn University's campus.
48 states honor the transformative legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Yet, Alabama and Mississippi will instead celebrate Robert E. Lee, a symbol of the confederacy and its fight to maintain slavery. Deeming MLK Day a "cultural issue" while celebrating a confederate leader and looking past it should not be normalized.
The Auburn Police Department took 18-year-old Taylor Colbert—a student at Southern Union Community College—into custody on Jan. 14 on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals. Charges of aggravated cruelty to animals carry the weight of a Class C Felony in Alabama.
Several Chambers County farms have filed a lawsuit against two mining companies seeking to develop a quarry near Cusseta. The Auburn University Eventing Club relies on one of these farms and claims the quarry could harm their horses, riders, and the local equestrian community. The suit raises additional environmental concerns including the destruction of a bald eagle habitat.
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church on Magnolia Street had its pride flag stolen for the third time. While the church's community is concerned about the intolerance of such a crime, they remain dedicated to their message of inclusivity.
