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Schools ask city for money for laptops in Gulf Shores

Alabama Notes — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:40:17 +0000

The schools asked the city for $988,688 to be paid over the next four years to fund the Learning for Life career academy program, which would begin next fall.

Birmingham councilman wants more lights in the city to prevent crime

Alabama Notes — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:31:33 +0000

The slaying of 5 men, just over a week ago, has made a Birmingham City Council member call for better lighting across the city.

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Clay City Council approves state of local emergency resolution because of tornado

Alabama Notes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:42:03 +0000

By approving the resolution, Mayor Ed McGuffie said, the city is able to have broader powers to direct relief efforts, assist recovery and accept assistance from other cities. Read more from The Birmingham News

MoonPie over Mobile cost city $123,000, over four times first estimate

Alabama Notes — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:08:00 +0000

MOBILE, Alabama — Mobile’s New Year’s Eve celebration cost the city about $123,000, four and a half times more than officials first said that it would, according to invoices supplied to the Press-Register.

Bayou La Batre defendants plead not guilty to new corruption indictment

Alabama Notes — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:44:26 +0000

MOBILE, Alabama — Bayou La Batre Mayor Stan Wright, his daughter and a grant manager for the city pleaded not guilty in Mobile last week to a new federal indictment that updates criminal charges related to government housing programs after Hurricane Katrina

Last of citys flood map revisions set for approval

Alabama Notes — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:33:00 +0000

The last of three updated floodplain maps for the city’s tornado recovery zone has been completed, but the reduced building restrictions may not take effect for five to six more months.

Dothan men plead guilty to catalytic converter crime spree

Alabama Notes — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:19:43 +0000

Prosecutors say two Dothan brothers recently pleaded guilty to multiple thefts of catalytic converters across the city, including a catalytic converter from a hearse.

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Birmingham’s downtown ballpark to be named Regions Field; groundbreaking under way

Alabama Notes — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:14:10 +0000

This afternoon’s activities at Railroad Park are the symbolic beginning of the project to build a stadium that will bring the Birmingham Barons back to the city. Read more from The Birmingham News

Pension plan concerns fueling potential exodus of Huntsville, Madison County government workers

Alabama Notes — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:43:11 +0000

A Retirement Systems of Alabama official said the number of retirement applications from Huntsville is “unusually high.” The 164 possible retirees represent 8.6 percent of the city’s 1,898 full-time employees.

The dunes of Fairhope: preserving Municipal Beach

Alabama Notes — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:31:29 +0000

Children may think the mounds of sand being dumped on the Municipal Beach are for them to play on, but the city is actually trying to build dunes to preserve the beach.