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Gulf Shores

Gulf Shores restaurant owner celebrates 25 years with 25 cent-menu

January 21, 2012

Mikee’s Seafood restaurant is celebrating its 25th year, and owner Eddie Spence is offering most everything on the menu for 25 cents on Jan. 23,

Garbage fee hike concerns Gulf Shores residents

January 15, 2012

The residential garbage fee increased $4.04 per quarter this year due to higher fuel costs, according to Mark Acreman, director of public works

Orange Beach may nix cost-of-living raises for elected officials

January 13, 2012

Councilwoman Pattiesue Carranza has recommended the council and mayor change the salary ordinance that awards them an automatic 5 percent cost-of-living increase every year.

Man turns self in after Gulf Shores police car sprayed with graffiti

January 12, 2012

A Gulf Shores man surrendered to police after the department posted a photograph of a man believed to have graffiti “tagged” a city patrol car.

Gulf Shores man arrested for possession of child pornography

January 12, 2012

Ronald Morrell Clower, 70, was arrested after someone known to him alerted Gulf Shores Police to the pornographic material, said Lt. Bill Cowan, a GSPD spokesman.

Gulf Shores residents want sand dumped on their beachfront

January 12, 2012

West Beach homeowners in Gulf Shores say dredging and sand at Little Lagoon pass has accelerated erosion on their beachfront.

Gulf Coast restoration projects pitched for BP funding

January 11, 2012

About $57 million in proposals have been released for public comment including the creation or enhancement of oyster habitat, salt marshes, sand dunes, and near shore reefs in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida

Gulf Shores police to get new mobile command post

January 11, 2012

The police department plans to buy a 20-foot, mobile command post using most of the $43,000 it has accumulated in impact fees,

Greek Orthodox Church in Gulf Shores to be consecrated by Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta

January 7, 2012

This month, the status of St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Chapel in Gulf Shores becomes elevated from that of chapel to a mission church. That status is the result not only of a growing population, but also of the determination, on the …

Husband in Baldwin mortgage fraud case gets 2 years; wife gets probation

January 6, 2012

MOBILE, Alabama — A federal judge here today sentenced a Baldwin County man to 2 years in prison — but spared the defendant’s wife — for aiding a massive mortgage fraud conspiracy involving Gulf Shores condominiums.