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Contributed Auburn Villager A Literacy Coalition volunteer and his student | Literacy Coalition is United Way beneficiary The United Way of Greater Lee County funds a variety of agencies around the county whose purposes is to give a helping hand to those in need. One of those agencies is the Lee County Literacy Coalition (LCLC), a volunteer, nonprofit effort that provides free, one-on-one tutoring. [FULL STORY]
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Luke Hein-Contributor Yasser Gowayed and Ansab Ali partake in a potluck dinner. The Muslim community in Auburn gets together nightly during Ramadan to celebrate breaking the day’s fast. | Local Muslims reflect This Saturday marks the ninth anniversary of 9/11, and a proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York City has the nation split. As tensions rise, a pastor in Florida is threatening to burn the Quran. So what exactly is the experience and sentiment of Muslims in Auburn? Are they afraid? [FULL STORY]
Tentative plans call for new high school Auburn City Schools superintendent Terry Jenkins really does plan to retire. Before he goes, though, he says he hopes he's bought land for a new high school, hired an architect and worked with the Auburn City Council to figure out a way to pay for it all. Despite foreclosure, Village Mall is in the black Despite a national recession, Auburn's University Village Mall is in the black. One new tenant just opened, and Georgia-based Marietta Diner is remodeling the Ruby Tuesday's site on the mall pad, with plans to open a new restaurant. Two more tenants are remodeling inside the mall. So why is the mall in foreclosure, and what does it mean? New season, new attitude from players in 2010 A welcomed change from last season, the Tigers are entering their 2010 schedule with more answers than questions looming over them. Led by a second-year head coach in Gene Chizik, who managed to keep his entire staff intact from one season to the next, the Auburn football team is looking to follow up a winning 8-5 campaign with an even better record. United Way's goal will be $900,000 Trooper Taylor, one of 16 children, was only 12 years old when his beloved father fell dead as he walked between one of his two jobs. Someone stole his wallet and steel-toed boots as he lay dead in the street. Taylor, assistant head football coach at Auburn University, says he understands the value of United Way. Lawsuit challenges AU's Dining Dollars Three Auburn students object to Auburn University's practice of charging a mandatory fee for on-campus foodservice. And they're doing more than complaining. They've filed a lawsuit against AU and the university's foodservice purveyor, Compass USA, alleging the practice violates state law. They want their money back, they want the practice stopped, and they want the lawsuit to become a class action representing all students who have paid the fee since the practice was initiated in 2008.
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Tigers open SEC play on the road after big win Auburn will travel to the land of cowbells this Thursday for a showdown with the Mississippi State Bulldogs in Starkville. Both teams are coming off big season-opening wins, with the Tigers defeating Arkansas State, 52-26, and MSU pummeling Memphis, 49-7.
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