Fairhope municipal court judge Haymes Snedeker shot four-over across four days at the U.S. Senior Open at Scioto Country Club, becoming the first amateur to make the cut at the championship since 2023.
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News from Point Clear in Baldwin County, Alabama.
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Four Dishes Worth the Drive Around Mobile Bay This Month, From a Rooftop Burger to an 800-Degree Filet
A July guide to four standout dishes around Mobile Bay — a pineapple bacon cheeseburger in downtown Mobile, a classic Southern breakfast in Fairhope, crabmeat Oscar on the Causeway and a broiled filet on the Eastern Shore.
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When Could You Wear White? Mobile’s Forgotten Straw Hat Day and the Rules of a Southern Spring
Long before Memorial Day became the national starting gun for white shoes, Mobile mayors proclaimed Straw Hat Day just before Easter. The city archives still hold the proclamations.
Baldwin County
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Baldwin County’s Sages Named the One Problem They Would Fix First: The Traffic
Asked to name the single problem in Baldwin County that could be corrected with relative ease, business people and civic figures answered with near unanimity: the roads, the bridges and the growth filling them.
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1,600 Tons of Rubble Became a New Fishing Reef in Mobile Bay
The Alabama Wildlife Federation built the Upper Wreck Reef between Mullet Point and the mouth of Weeks Bay, a 1.25-acre underwater structure of recycled rubble finished in time for Memorial Day weekend.
Baldwin County
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Mother of Mystics: Why Mobile’s True Golden Age Ran From 1880 to 1914
A Point Clear lawyer and self-described jackleg historian argues Mobile’s golden age belongs to its mystic societies, dating it precisely from the last great New Year’s parade in 1881 to the First World War.
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Riley and Bronner Pressed Dow to Run Again, but Mobile’s Mayor Appeared Unmoved
Gov. Bob Riley and retirement systems chief David Bronner urged Mobile Mayor Mike Dow to seek re-election at a meeting shortly before Christmas 2004, but his backers conceded he was unlikely to be dissuaded.