Fairhope Regroups After Lone $5.4 Million Bid Sinks Soccer Complex Plans
Fairhope leaders rejected the only bid for its long-planned soccer complex after it came in far above budget, and are now retooling the project.
Fairhope Brewing Throws Mardi Gras in July Party July 11-12
Fairhope Brewing Company brings the spirit of Carnival to summer with its Mardi Gras in July celebration, running this weekend, July 11 and 12, at the Baldwin County brewery’s taproom.…
Fairhope’s Magnolia Beach Gets Makeover With 3,000 Tons of New Sand
Fairhope trucked in roughly 3,000 tons of sand to repair severe erosion at Magnolia Beach on Mobile Bay, restoring a popular bayfront stretch.
Mobile Wine Shop to Move Into Former True Midtown Kitchen Space on Dauphin Street
A midtown Mobile wine shop and eatery has signed a lease to more than double its size, moving into the closing True Midtown Kitchen space.
Washington Post Puts Fairhope’s ‘Utopia’ on the National Map
Fairhope has long been a point of pride on the Eastern Shore, and in May 2011 the town got a glossy national endorsement: a Washington Post lifestyle feature headlined “In…
Fairhope Singer-Songwriter Nick Gill Releases New Self-Titled EP After New Orleans Recording Sessions
Fairhope singer-songwriter Nick Gill has released a new, self-titled EP recorded in New Orleans, the latest step in a music career that started when he was a fifth-grader selling homemade…
Fairhope Novelist Judith Richards on Katrina, Everglades Roots and Her Husband’s Alabama Past
Fairhope author Judith Richards has built a decades-long writing career largely rooted in the Gulf Coast, drawing on family stories, her own varied work history and a long creative partnership…