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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Alabama is still dealing with the Delta variant of COVID-19. The more contagious coronavirus strain first swept through the Gulf Coast in July and August. It then spread to the rest of Alabama. -
Original art will be used to address the issue of food insecurity in Mobile County starting today. The group Loaves and Fishes is presenting the annual Art Soup street party to raise awareness of hunger in Mobile County during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
City leaders and healthcare workers in Fairhope share different burdens as the number of COVID cases in their town grows. -
Alabama’s current death toll from COVID-19 stands at over 7,000. The virus reportedly is changing how people remember those they’ve lost. The funeral…
