Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Point Clear in Baldwin County, Alabama.
The Exceptional Foundation of Baldwin County, a newly incorporated nonprofit dedicated to serving individuals with special needs along the Gulf Coast, announced ticket sales for its inaugural major fundraiser in…
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.
Mobile novelist Watt Key has a new book on the way. Dirt Road Home, a companion novel to his debut, Alabama Moon, is scheduled for release this summer from publisher…
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 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…
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…
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…