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News from Stockton — local reporting on government, courts, crime, schools, business and community life in Stockton.

Baldwin County High-voltage electric transmission lines running across an open landscape

Alabama Regulators Open Data Center Power Contract Review as Calvert, Prichard and Stockton Projects Loom

James Bullard, July 8, 2026July 14, 2026

State regulators are rewriting how electric contracts for giant data centers get reviewed, with public comments due in August. The outcome could shape projects proposed in Calvert, Prichard and Baldwin County.

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Baldwin County A rural landscape with solar panel arrays installed across open farmland

Stockton Votes Itself a Zoning District as a 4,500-Acre Solar Farm Looms

James Bullard, July 1, 2026July 14, 2026

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.

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Baldwin County Sunlight filtering through a stand of tall pine trees

Baldwin County’s Jody Bishop Named Alabama ‘Judge of the Year’ for Protecting the Forests

James Bullard, May 30, 2012

Baldwin County District Judge Jody Bishop was named Alabama’s Judge of the Year by the state’s forest owners and forestry commission for his work prosecuting timber and woodland crimes.

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Baldwin County Rows of crops in a south Alabama field

McMillan Leads Agriculture Commissioner Ticket, Credits Mobile and Baldwin

James Bullard, June 8, 2010

Stockton’s John McMillan led the Republican field for Alabama agriculture commissioner in the June 1 primary and said his home counties on the coast supplied the margin that carried him into a runoff.

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Baldwin County Baldwin County school building

Baldwin County Board Closed Fairhope Alternative School in 2009

James Bullard, March 19, 2009

The Baldwin County School Board voted unanimously in 2009 to close the Alternative School in Fairhope while delaying a decision on Vaughn Elementary in Stockton.

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Baldwin County An American flag beside a ballot box on election night

Where Mobile’s Candidates Planned to Watch the Returns on Election Night 2006

James Bullard, November 6, 2006

From Wintzell’s to a riverside restaurant on Dog River, Mobile-area candidates and their supporters made plans to gather across the region as voters prepared to decide their fates on Tuesday.

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