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Mayor Recognizes State Baseball Champs
Posted on: May 30th, 2006
Members of the Baker High School 6A State Baseball Champions attended a recent Mobile City Council Meeting. Mayor Sam Jones recognized them with Certificates of Award....
Mobile Gets Visit from Sister-City Residents
Posted on: May 30th, 2006
Mobile got a visit from residents of its sister-city, Kosice, Slovakia. Dr. Vjaceslav Bobak and his wife Viera, will spend a month here in America visiting their daughter Veronika. Veronika, along...
Safety Checkpoints and House Raids Net Big Catches
Posted on: May 22nd, 2006
Mayor Sam Jones, along with interim Police Chief Lester Hargrove and members of the Mobile Police Department, unveiled what has been confiscated during the past months’ security checkpoints and...
Major Community Cleanup Day for Trinity Gardens
Posted on: May 20th, 2006
As part of an $80,000 Weed and Seed grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, residents from Trinity Gardens held a community cleaning competition throughout the neighborhood. Students from Brazier...
Hurricane Preparedness Week News Conference
Posted on: May 18th, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: R. Steve Huffman May 18, 2006 Release # (EMA-2006-11) HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS WEEK NEWS CONFERENCE Who: Representatives from Mobile...
City of Mobile Awarded $40,000 Education Grant
Posted on: May 17th, 2006
Mayor Sam Jones presented the Mobile County Public School System with a check for $40,000 as part of the Mayor's High School Reform Planning Grant. Mobile is one of only two cities to be awarded the...
Michael Donald Avenue Dedicated
Posted on: May 16th, 2006
Mayor Sam Jones and District Two Councilman William Carroll, officially dedicated Michael Donald Avenue at a ceremony on May 16, 2006. Last month, the Mobile City Council renamed Herndon Avenue to...
Indoor Tennis Facility Opens in Downtown Mobile
Posted on: May 15th, 2006
Mobile’s semitropical climate sometimes presents a challenge for such outdoor sports as tennis. Now, when such tennis stars as Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick enter onto local courts, weather...
TIES Program Promotes Positive Self-Image
Posted on: May 10th, 2006
Some special students at Westlawn Elementary School are getting a lesson in life, and fashion. They are members of the TIES program, which promotes self-esteem, pride, respect, motivation and...
Fire & Rescue Chief Selected for Prestigious Fellowship
Posted on: May 5th, 2006
Mobile Fire & Rescue Chief Steve Dean has been selected for a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University. The 19-day program includes state and local leaders from across the country and focuses on...