Fairhope News

A prominent lawyer for a Daphne city worker pursuing a discrimination suit says he missed a court deadline because he learned his prostate cancer has spread and is terminal.

Developers have reduced prices at The Colony at the Grand condominium building, saying they hope to speed sales so they can move on to the next residential project on the 185-acre site at Section Street and Old Battles Road in Point Clear.

Imagine this. It's Inauguration Day and the re-elected President - matters not who - has just been sworn in.

Fairhope's Publix Super Market, shown in this May photo, is set to open at 8 a.m. today with a ribbon-cutting planned for 1:30 p.m. The store's opening comes after months of conflict involving stormwater runoff and other development issues.

The Page & Palette bookstore will host author Dr. Robert T. Cochran Jr. on July 9. He will speak and sign his book, "Curing Chronic Pain", from 6 to 8 pm at the downtown Fairhope bookstore.

Dan Hemken used to just cut down trees for a living. This past week, in downtown Fairhope, he was milling the wood from 30 to 40 trees to be reused in construction of a green-built, four-bedroom house.

With the number of homeless parents and children sheltered in Baldwin County's Family Promise program this year already topping the total for 2008, supporters hope to raise more money for the shelter network.

Law enforcement officers, friends and customers take a look at the Bay Break building, which was damaged by fire last December.

June 23 -- T here's a new top cop in the city of Fairhope. Monday night the Fairhope City Council chose Bill Press to lead a department that has been dealing with some turmoil recently.

Nobody loves a good mystery more than me, especially when somebody else does the legwork.

Bayside Orthopaedic will host a discussion on peripheral neuropathy at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at its Fairhope office.

Key West Inns, a limited-service hotel chain, announces dramatically higher reservation revenues for 2009.

Most people who know me will tell you that I do not sit well. I am a natural born worker bee, and I must fill my time with some type of activity.

The Friends of the Fairhope Public Library will hold their annual Beach Book Sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 20 in the Giddens Conference Center at the library.

Tax revenue in Fairhope is down nearly five percent this year, but city leaders say communities in other parts of the state are struggling even more.

Two weeks after the Police Department's second-in-command was suspended with pay, he was back at work again this week.

Alabama Historical Commission recently gave the Fairhope Museum of History, shown here, a favorable review and added the building to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.

June 7 - Swimming advisories remain in effect for parts of Mobile Bay due to high levels of Enterococcous Bacteria.

PRATTVILLE -- A retired minister who still considers Prattville and its First United Methodist Church 'home' is looking forward to his much anticipated return.

In response to recent personnel decisions by the mayor, the City Council this week approved a hiring freeze effective through July 7, providing enough time to consider a more extensive measure that would strip the mayor of his power to hire, fire and discipline department heads.