Montrose businessman Trip Pittman announced a Republican campaign for the Alabama Senate seat left open when Bradley Byrne took over the state’s two-year college system, with the primary set for Aug. 7.
Category: Fairhope
News from Fairhope in Baldwin County, Alabama.
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Byrne’s Exit Set Off a Republican Scramble in Baldwin County
Bradley Byrne’s move to the two-year college chancellor’s office opened Senate District 32 in the most Republican county in Alabama. Party insiders handicapped a field that had not yet formed.
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Discovering Alabama Marked 20 Years on Public Television With a Fairhope Open House
Discovering Alabama, the public television series devoted to the state’s natural wonders, celebrated its 20th year in 2005 with an open house reception at Faulkner State College in Fairhope.
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A Fairhope Lawyer’s Campaign to Give Dixey Bar Its Proper Name
In March 2005, Fairhope attorney David Bagwell asked federal geographers to make Dixey Bar official, tracing its name to a clipper ship lost in a hurricane at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1860.
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Stan the New Man: A 30-Year FBI Veteran Takes a Seat on the Fairhope City Council
Dan Stankoski spent three decades at the FBI supervising violent crime, domestic terrorism and civil rights cases. Now he’s on the Fairhope City Council worrying about the next bottleneck on Highway 181.