06/23/11 The Creole guards company, 60 men strong, parades in Mobile; City physicians hold conference for the purpose of formulating plans to trace the infection of typhoid fever ... all on this day in history.
06/21/11 BIRMINGHAM, AL--(Marketwire - Jun 21, 2011) - The newly incorporated City of Semmes, Ala. is contracting with Revenue Discovery Systems (RDS) to provide a comprehensive sales/use, rental/lease, and lodging tax administration program for the City, RDS announced today.
06/20/11 Among the various Machiavellian tactics employed by a Republican state senator from the Birmingham area was a never-implemented plan for the Republican Party to push for state Rep. Yvonne Kennedy, D-Mobile, to become speaker of the state House of Representatives.
06/09/11 Raphael Semmes performs during brunch at Table 100. ... Jackson Irish Dancers hosts its Mostly Monthly Ceili at Fenian's at 2 p.m. Free. ... Art House Cinema Downtown at Russell C. Davis Planetarium (200 E. Pascagoula St.) includes the films "Rigoletto" at 2 p.m. ($16), "I Am" at 5 p.m. ($7) and "3 Backyards" at 6:40 p.m. ($7). Visit msfilm.org.
05/31/11 Alabama Gulf Coast Area Chamber of Commerce --A ribbon cutting was held May 18 for WalMart Market in the Bruno's Shopping Center in Orange Beach. --Constance Simion of McDonald's in Gulf Shores won the Catch the Island Spirit Award...
05/17/11 SEMMES, Alabama - The election for the first ever city council in Semmes is not until the end of next month, but we already know who will be mayor. Judy Hale, who spear headed the effort to incorporate Semmes, was the only person to qualify for the mayor's race before today's deadline. Six candidates qualified to run for the city's five council positions. They are David Baker, Teresa Bonner ...
05/17/11 The Semmes municipal election may not be until June 28, but citizens of Mobile County's newest city already know that Judy Hale will be Semmes' 1st mayor.
05/14/11 These snippets of Civil War news from the Press-Register of 1861 were published in the 1911 newspapers. Other notes record events that also took place on May 14 in Mobile's history.
05/13/11 Controversy is brewing over high school graduation dress codes in Mobile County. A local parent said her daughter is the victim of discrimination and called the school policy closed-minded and sexist.
05/13/11 Visitors to the Hunter Museum of American Art will have the opportunity to enjoy two very different exhibitions beginning in May. The first features photographs from the American Civil War. The second is an exhibition featuring contemporary artist Beverly Semmes.
05/11/11 Voters in Semmes will head to the polls June 28 to elect the council and mayor of Mobile County's newest city.
05/01/11 These are excerpts from past editions of the Press-Register. They were compiled by Cammie East Cowan.
04/27/11 With just days left until Semmes becomes the newest incorporated municipality in Mobile County, questions about the transition arose at a Tuesday night meeting.
04/24/11 Of the Georgians who supported the Confederate cause, the most noteworthy were not political figures like Alexander H. Stephens and Benjamin H. Hill. They were military officers like William J. Hardee and John B. Gordon. During the Civil War, some 120,000 Georgians took up arms for the Confederacy. From this number, 43 rose to the rank of general. Some of the 43 were West Point graduates with ...
04/19/11 By M.J. Ellington Montgomery Bureau Charter schools, the subject of heated debate and controversy during 2009 and 2010 sessions of the Legislature, are coming up again Wednesday in a public hearing on a bill that would allow them.
04/03/11 Owners of the Mobile-based chain restaurant ran a poll on its Facebook page asking customers where they would like the next store to be built, according to Will Fusaiotti, president of the company.
03/31/11 Wayne Miller said as long as the levee at I-65 isn't breached and cold water doesn't flow into mid-Delta lakes, bass will remain in the shallows until their first major spawn around April's full moon.
03/30/11 A 12-year-old Semmes Middle School student has died in a traffic accident. That accident happened Tuesday afternoon on Georgetown-Wilmer road. Also in the car with the young girl was her brother and a close family friend. Steven Smith talked to FOX10 News about the loss of his daughter, and the nightmare his family is living.
03/30/11 A Semmes Middle School student was killed in one-car accident Tuesday that occurred on Wilmer Georgetown Road, a Mobile County public school official said.
03/28/11 "I'm covered up," said builder Jeff Thompson in Fairhope. "Spanish Fort, Daphne and the Fairhope market is strong right now." | 
