State Rep. Jamie Ison, a former director for the deaf and blind, was training twice a day to join blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer on a late-summer climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, with the toughest day set to fall on her 52nd birthday.
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Restaurateur Mead Miller Enters the Race for Mobile’s Open Council Seat
Picklefish co-owner Mead Miller announced his candidacy for Mobile City Council District 7 in June 2005, the only council district with no incumbent seeking re-election.
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Rich Pledges to Move Downtown if Elected Mayor of Mobile
Mobile mayoral candidate Bess Rich said in April 2005 that she and her husband would sell their west Mobile home of 25 years and move downtown if she won the August election.
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A Yellow Fever Scare and a Train to Canada: A Mobile Childhood Recalled
A serialized memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, born Elizabeth Zoe Walsh in 1892, recalled a yellow fever scare that sent her north by rail and a Mobile childhood spent between Spring Hill and State Street.
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To Dow or Not to Dow: The Mayor’s Long Shadow Over the District 2 Runoff
As Ralph Buffkin and Stephen Nodine headed toward a June 2004 runoff, both raced to distance themselves from Mayor Mike Dow. A look inside four mayoral elections explains why.