Lynn Oldshue
ReporterLynn Oldshue is an APR Gulf Coast correspondent. She is from a newspaper family and grew up on a catfish farm in Yazoo City, MS. She always wanted to be a journalist but got a late start after her two boys grew up. Lynn is part of the APR team that won a national Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a documentary on the long-term impact of the BP oil spill. Lynn is also the creator of the blog and Facebook page Our Southern Souls that tells the stories of people across the South. She has published a book of stories from the first six years of Souls. She enjoys wandering, photography, and riding her horse.
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The synthetic drug Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of eighteen and forty five. The number of Alabamians who overdosed on the opioid in the year 2021 was fourteen hundred. -
An estimated three hundred school-age children are homeless right now in Baldwin County. The new Baldwin Family village is a thirteen-unit facility for transitional housing and homeless support services. -
Mardi Gras is in full swing in the Mobile area. This carnival season is the tenth anniversary of the Magnolia Breeze Youth Ensemble. It may look like a drumline and dancers in the carnival parades, but it’s much more. -
For the past few months, the Alabama Public Radio news team has been looking into why educated and skilled workers are leaving the Gulf coast for other parts of the country. We call our series “Should I stay or should I go?” Some of our coverage has focused on strategies to keep workers here. Today, we’re looking at a solution from the Alabama Small Business Development Center that may have been sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Mardi Gras is in full swing in the Mobile area. For the Fat Tuesday celebration, Dauphin Island becomes home to the Massacre Island Secret Society -
It has been almost a month since an EF2 tornado cut through the middle of Selma, and impacted Dallas, Autauga, Coosa, Elmore, and Hale Counties. Volunteer groups are working to help residents hit hard by the storm -
So, what did you do over the weekend? Recently, APR Gulf coast correspondent Lynn Oldshue visited the ABC store in Fairhope where rare bottles of Bourbon had people waiting in line for days. -
A professor at Auburn University is training in Mobile Bay in order to achieve a lifelong dream. Sara Wolf jumped into the waters between the Fairhope pier and Fort Morgan. -
A homeless coalition in Mobile is one of 40 groups in 25 states to get grants from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. -
Fans of Walt Disney World in Orlando saw the ribbon cutting for the new EPCOT theme park back in 1982. That was the same year Alabama Public Radio first took to the airwaves. The APR news team has been observing our fortieth anniversary by diving in our archives to re-air some of our best stories. That includes this one from last year. Customers of a Fairhope gas station left handwritten tribute messages after the owner died from natural causes. APR Gulf coast correspondent Lynn Oldshue has more on this life well lived from the APR archives.
