Volunteers with Alabama’s Share the Beach program have documented 55 sea turtle nests so far this season as nesting activity reaches its June and July peak along the Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Fort Morgan coastline.
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News from Fort Morgan — local reporting on government, courts, crime, schools, business and community life in Fort Morgan.
Baldwin County
Gulf Shores Mayor Says the New One-Way Bridge Gets People In, but Not Out
Mayor Robert Craft says the new Intracoastal Waterway bridge is working as an inbound route but has left most of the island with a single realistic way off, and he wants the one-way pattern reversed.
Baldwin County
Stockton Votes Itself a Zoning District as a 4,500-Acre Solar Farm Looms
Residents of Stockton’s Planning District 3 voted 215-161 to bring their area under Baldwin County planning and zoning, a grassroots response to a proposed 4,500-acre solar farm they say blindsided them.
Fort Morgan
Fort Morgan Museum Unveils Rarely Seen Relics for the Battle of Mobile Bay’s 150th Anniversary
For the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay, the Fort Morgan Museum assembled a special collection of artifacts, several never before shown to the public, focusing on the human story of the fort.
Baldwin County
Weekend Guide: Battle of Mobile Bay 150th Anniversary Reenactment
Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan host a sesquicentennial reenactment of the Battle of Mobile Bay, with tickets, shuttles, ferries and a full weekend schedule.
Fort Morgan
150th Battle of Mobile Bay Commemoration Aims for Education and an Economic Boost
With thousands of visitors expected at Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, organizers of the three-day 150th Battle of Mobile Bay commemoration hoped the coastal event would deliver both an economic surge and a lasting lesson.
Fairhope
Fairhope Artist to Complete Trio of Battle of Mobile Bay Paintings at Fort Morgan’s 150th
As Fort Morgan prepared for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Fairhope artist Dean Mosher readied a new portrait of Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan to complete a trio begun two decades earlier.
Fort Morgan
Fort Morgan Residents Weigh Incorporation to Shape the Peninsula’s Future
With a long court fight over annexation settled, the Fort Morgan Civic Association weighed whether to incorporate as a city, seeking local control over development along the narrow Baldwin County peninsula.
Baldwin County
A Fairhope Lawyer’s Campaign to Give Dixey Bar Its Proper Name
In March 2005, Fairhope attorney David Bagwell asked federal geographers to make Dixey Bar official, tracing its name to a clipper ship lost in a hurricane at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1860.