St. Paul’s Students Raise $1,717 for the Heart Association on Wear Red Day
An out-of-uniform day and a bake sale at St. Paul's Episcopal School turned National Wear Red Day into $1,717 for the American Heart Association, all of it raised by the…
From Manila to Mobile: Estella Dorn and the Festival That Taught a City Its Neighbors
The executive director of the Mobile International Festival, born in the Philippines and a Mobilian since 1984, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on the event that has introduced schoolchildren to…
Mobile Council Field Takes Shape: Hudson Seeks a Third Term, Wallace Courts District 3
With municipal elections set for the summer of 2009, Councilwoman Connie Hudson announced a bid for a third term while challenger Ron Wallace scheduled his first community meeting in District…
Gulf Coast Classic Organizers Postpone Promised Briefing on Game’s Finances
A promised press conference on the Gulf Coast Classic's $188,000 deficit was called off, with organizers citing sensitive negotiations. The city put $275,000 into last fall's game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
A Deer Hunt With His Son Ended Jo Bonner’s 2010 Run for Governor
The Mobile congressman was all in on a campaign for governor in mid-December. Two weeks later, on a hunting trip with his 10-year-old son, he changed his mind and never…
Jack Edwards Tells Fairhope Republicans the GOP Must Widen Its Tent
The former South Alabama congressman told a packed Eastern Shore Republican Women luncheon at the Fairhope Yacht Club that the party's future depends on drawing in the voters it has…
Line by Line, Copeland Picked Apart the Gulf Coast Classic’s $188,000 Deficit
The council president questioned the promotion budget, the ticket printing, the mayor's luncheon and a step show with no revenue, and disputed the attendance count for a football game the…
Mardi Gras Parades Shifted Into Higher Gear in Mobile in 2009
Mobile's 2009 Mardi Gras season shifted into a near-nightly parade schedule after the Polka Dots Parade opened a busy run to Fat Tuesday.
Artur Davis Brought a Campaign for Governor to Mobile — and a Pronunciation Lesson
The congressman told about 100 Mobile Democrats that Alabama's past need not dictate its future, made education his central theme, and asked the city's television anchors to note that his…
A Mobile Reader Took Jeff Sessions to Task Over the Nation’s ‘Financial Soul’
In a letter to the editor, Mobile's Pierre Pelham argued that Alabama's senior senator had been silent when it counted - on the Iraq war and on the mortgage system…