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Ramsay High School twins earn top grades and scholarships together

Alabama Notes — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:47:08 +0000

Twins Martha and Mark Ballard finished their high school careers with the two highest grade-point averages at Ramsay High School, and both landed scholarships to Auburn University worth $96,000 each. Read more from The Birmingham News

Seven Birmingham area high schools among best in country, Newsweek says

Alabama Notes — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:40:07 +0000

Schools in Mobile, Huntsville, Auburn and Madison all make the top 1,000 Read more from The Birmingham News

Researcher attempts to create peanut resistant to drought, disease

Alabama Notes — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:29:29 +0000

FAIRHOPE, Alabama — The perfect peanut may be growing in a dusty field outside of Fairhope. The candidates — different varieties bred by an expert peanut geneticist — were planted Thursday morning at Auburn University’s Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center.

AU coach Chizik coming to Cullman

Alabama Notes — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Before 2009, not many people outside of the county knew about the Cullman County Auburn Club.

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Panel weighs changes to AU trustee selection process

Alabama Notes — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:25:39 +0000

MONTGOMERY | A proposed constitutional amendment that would alter the selection process of the Auburn University board of trustees went to a conference committee Wednesday night after the House of Representatives changed the original Senate measure.

MAD: Toomer's for Tuscaloosa

Alabama Notes — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:28:31 +0000

IT’S BEEN MORE THAN A YEAR SINCE THE TORNADOES, AND HELP IS STILL POURING IN TO TUSCALOOSA. AUBURN FANS ARE SOME OF THE BEST VOLUNTEERS AND SUPPORTERS. FOR THE PAST YEAR, THEY’VE BEEN HELPING IN TUSCALOOSA’S RECOVERY. BETTINA BOATENG SHOWS US HOW THE GROUP …

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Fact Finder: Toomer's Trees

Alabama Notes — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:45:14 +0000

Known as a sacred symbol in the Auburn Nation, Toomer’s Corner has been seen for decades as the place to celebrate a football team win. But in late 2010, an outcry was heard after the old oaks at the center of…

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Crafts, music highlight Strawberry Festival

Alabama Notes — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Nestled away in a lawn chair inside the Festhalle Market Platz, Joann Bowen enjoyed the spring-like weather as she finished work on a crochet Auburn placemat.

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Speaker Mike Hubbard: Senate charter bill wasn’t worth passing

Alabama Notes — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:24:40 +0000

“What the Senate sent us was totally unacceptable, unworkable and meaningless,” House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, told reporters. He added that he was “disappointed we weren’t able to tackle that in this session, but I am confident that we will…

Charles Barkley: Romney is ‘Going down;’ John McCain: ‘Wanna bet?’

Alabama Notes — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:05:20 +0000

Former Auburn and NBA star Charles Barkley took a swipe at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week when the former Massachusetts governor was at the Boston Celtics-Atlanta Hawks playoff game.