Once a month on a pier at the edge of Mon Louis Island, chefs Amber and Hunter Harris set a long table for fifteen and serve a five-course menu built around Mobile Bay seafood. Every dinner sells out.
Category: Coden
News from Coden in Mobile County, Alabama.
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Limestone Barges Head South to Rebuild the Oyster Reefs of Lower Mobile Bay
Barges loaded with limestone are traveling hundreds of miles down Alabama’s rivers to Cedar Point in southern Mobile County, where the rock will be spread across the bay bottom to give young oysters a place to grow.
Baldwin County
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Oil Spill, Day 50: Containment Cap Pulls Thousands of Barrels a Day
Fifty days into the Gulf disaster, the cap fitted over the failed blowout preventer was recovering more than 10,000 barrels a day, but engineers were still venting oil into the sea to keep ice from clogging the pipe.
Bayou La Batre
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A Fundraising Letter, a Field House Debt and a Commissioner’s $200,000 Promise
A supporter’s letter told the men who co-signed a loan for the Alma Bryant field house that Commissioner Mike Dean would steer $200,000 in county money toward the debt if re-elected. Both men denied any deal.
Bayou La Batre
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The Gill Net Bill Ran Aground Between Bayou La Batre and the Sport Fishermen
A bill to outlaw commercial gill net fishing in Alabama’s coastal waters passed the Senate in a form the Bayou La Batre legislator said the House would kill, reopening a bitter fight over buyouts and blame.
Bayou La Batre
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Coden Meeting Took Up the Fight to Save Portersville Bay and Its Seafood
Casi Callaway of Mobile Bay Keepers headlined ‘Saving Our Bay, Saving Our Seafood’ at the Coden Community House, where a proposed sewer plant in south Mobile County was on the agenda.
Bayou La Batre
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Bayou La Batre Councilman Signaled Challenge for Mobile County Commission Seat
Henry Barnes Sr., a Bayou La Batre city councilman and commercial truck driver, said he was 99 percent sure he would run for the Mobile County Commission, whether the body stayed at three members or grew to five.
Bayou La Batre
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Gulf Fishermen in Line for $28 Million to Rebuild Oyster Beds and Shrimp Grounds
Federal officials moved in June 2006 to release $28 million for Alabama, aimed at reseeding hurricane-wrecked oyster beds and clearing debris from shrimp grounds off the Gulf Coast.
Coden
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George Callahan Launched a Shrimp-Boil Campaign to Retake His South Mobile County Senate Seat
Former state Sen. George Callahan opened his 2006 bid to reclaim south Mobile County’s District 35 seat with a shrimp boil in Coden that he said drew more than 200 people.
Bayou La Batre
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Mon Louis Island and a Servant’s Reward: The French Roots of a Mobile Family
The second installment of a Mobile family memoir traces a French line back to Bienville’s settlers, to land between Bayou La Batre and Coden, and to how Mon Louis Island got its name.