Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mobile County Master Gardener volunteers explain why aphids, whiteflies and mealybugs surge in summer gardens and outline quick fixes and long-term Integrated Pest Management strategies, alongside two upcoming free gardening…
The Mobile County school system planned a live, televised panel discussion on the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards, featuring the superintendent, principals and classroom teachers.
Longtime Mobile County school board member Ken Megginson of Semmes said he was torn over whether to seek re-election, calling the stewardship of 60,000 students an awesome responsibility he was…
Lydia Gaudet of Goodwill Easter Seals told the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile about an adult literacy program whose students, most reading below a third-grade level, doubled their skills in…
The Mobile County school board elected new officers in November 2007 as incoming superintendent Dr. Roy Nichols began visiting local schools.
The Mobile County Education Association asked the school board president to release records on hundreds of thousands of dollars in no-bid contracts, questioning whether vendors who donated to the system…
A $5,000 contribution from the local car dealers' PAC boosted Democrat Andrew Davis days before the 2006 election, in a Mobile County school board race shadowed by Superintendent Harold Dodge's…
A GOP primary for a Mobile County school board seat pitted appointed incumbent Judy Stout against John Holland, who had resigned the same seat a year earlier after an ethics…
Retired grocery executive John Holland moved to reclaim the Mobile County school board seat he gave up after an ethics ruling, setting up a Republican primary against the woman appointed…
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…