Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Dauphin Island Bridge from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Construction has started on the new $6.5 million Cedar Point Boat Launch near Coden, a year-long GOMESA-funded project to improve boating access and oyster industry safety. Baldwin County also sees…
Before the bridge, Dauphin Island was a village of 200 with goats in the trees and cattle on the beach. A B-24 pilot named Aubrey Bishop built its first motel…
After Hurricane Frederic, the residents of Dauphin Island were met by pure devastation. Those who left the island couldn’t get back, and those who rode out the storm on the…
Sailors described a desperate fight for survival as a fast-moving storm with near-hurricane winds capsized boats during the Dauphin Island Regatta.
Hurricane Frederic in 1979 derailed Jeff Collier's college plans, keeping him on Dauphin Island and eventually leading him to become its longtime mayor.
Mike Thierry recalls riding out Hurricane Frederic aboard his boat, then running Dauphin Island's makeshift passenger ferry service for months afterward.