A roundup of Mobile and Baldwin county school news covers construction projects, a new digital literacy pilot and a donation from Airbus.
Tag: Barton Academy
Citronelle
Soil Trouble Pushes the New Citronelle High School to a 2016 Finish
Unstable soil forced a new site for the $25 million Citronelle High School, and the Mobile County school board learned the project now trends past its contract completion date, into the summer of 2016.
Mobile
Mobile County Schools Approve $2.8 Million Deal to Restore Barton Academy
Mobile County’s school board approved a $2.8 million contract to renovate the historic Barton Academy and the nearby Yerby School buildings.
Local News
Ann Bedsole Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award for Historic Preservation
Mobile trailblazer Ann Smith Bedsole, the first woman elected to the Alabama Senate, was named to receive a lifetime achievement award for decades of work saving the state’s and the city’s historic places.
Local News
Might Kindergartners Return to Barton Academy?
With the school system’s administration finally out of the building, talk around Mobile turned to sending children back into Barton Academy, possibly as the new home of a performing arts magnet program.
Local News
Ten Names in the Mix as School Board Moves to Fill a Vacant Seat
After John Holland resigned from the Mobile County school board following an ethics ruling, at least ten names circulated as possible appointees, with a state takeover looming if the board deadlocked.
Local News
Three Golden Ages and a Silver One: Reading Mobile’s History in Its Buildings
In a March 2005 series on Mobile’s golden age, attorney Palmer Hamilton argued the city had three of them, and that the proof stands in its churches, schools and antebellum houses.
Mobile
Getting Schooled in Real Estate: Mobile County’s $8.95 Million Bet on an Old Office Building
The Mobile County school system’s proposed purchase of the old Kellogg, Brown & Root building drew sharp criticism from commercial real estate professionals, and a vigorous defense.
Local News
The Wrecking Ball on South Lawrence Street, and What Was Left Behind
Part nine of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: after years of haggling, the old family house sold for $18,292.80 and came down for a parking lot in the fall of 1964.