Robert Youens, 72, and Steve Hernden launched from the Brooks Park Boat Launch in Chickasaw to attempt a record run around the Great Loop, a 6,000-mile circuit of America’s eastern waterways.
Tag: human interest
Coverage of human interest from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Mobile
A Mobile Veteran’s Daily Struggle: Homeless, in College, Fighting for Benefits
A homeless Mobile veteran balances online college classes, a VA benefits dispute, and shelter curfew rules during one revealing day downtown.
Local News
In the Dog Days of Summer, Mobile’s Officials Introduce Their Pets
With the summer heat settling in, area officials past and present shared the boxers, hounds, cats and rescues that keep them company, a warmer counterpoint to the city’s debates over animal welfare.
Mobile
‘That Ronald Reagan Smile’: A Mobile Woman’s Inaugural Ball Encounter With the 40th President
As the nation mourned Ronald Reagan in June 2004, a Mobile woman recounted how persistence, Southern charm and a sympathetic Secret Service agent let her press a medal into the president’s hand in 1981.