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07/09/11 In the Mobile Bay oyster gardening program, residents from Mobile and Baldwin counties get small, juvenile oysters from the Auburn University Shellfish Lab and grow them in baskets that hang from their piers.
07/08/11 Nesting season is in full swing on Mobile Bay's Gaillard Island, with young pelicans at every stage of development, from eggs in the nest to fledgings attempting their first flights.
07/04/11 There's a bumper crop of baby pelicans and terns hatching out on Gaillard Island in Mobile Bay, and, in the wake of the BP oil spill, biologists in Alabama are breathing something akin to a sigh of relief.
06/30/11 Confederate munitions manufacturers to test artillery in Mobile Bay on Fourth of July; Mobile firemen celebrate holiday with "Womanless Coronation" picnic ... all on this day in history.
06/21/11 The University of Akron men's golf team opens the spring portion of its 2010-11 schedule on Feb. 21 at the USA Mobile Bay Intercollegiate in Mobile, Ala.
06/21/11 The University of Akron men's golf team closed out the first event of the season tied for third place at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate on Tuesday.
04/27/11 MOBILE, Alabama -- Alvin Kirksey Sr. already was looking ahead to the Mobile Bay Tarpons' 2012 indoor football league season.
04/22/11 FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- More than 5,000 people are expected to descend Saturday on the Mobile Bay area's central Earth Day playground: the beachfront park of this Eastern Shore city.
04/15/11 COLUMBUS, GA (April 15, 2011) - Coming off their 29-28 thrilling last second win from last weekend, the Defending Champion Columbus Lions (3-1) look to build some offensive stride as they play host to the Mobile Bay Tarpons (2-2) on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.
04/13/11 I'm standing on the end of a dock, a couple hundred feet into Mobile Bay. The waves are rolling in gently, the sun is overhead. My eyes skim over the water for telltale signs of life: a glistening fin that comes up, arches forward, and then descends back down. Within minutes, I see one. Several more begin to surface, one after the other, in close proximity, like carousel horses broken free. Awe ...
04/09/11 LAKE CHARLES LA. - In a game filled with almost as many penalties as there were passes the Louisiana Swashbucklers prevailed over the Mobile Bay Tarpons 73-32 to go 3-1 on the season. The Tarpons drop to 2-2. The Swashbucklers remain undefeated at home in the Lake Charles Civic Center.
04/03/11 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama - A record turnout for the Mobile Bay Vintage Motorcycle Club's Spring Show on Dauphin Island From Harleys to Triumphs to Hondas, you could find motorcycles of all types at Sunday's Mobile Bay Vintage Motorcycle Club's 15th Annual Spring Show. 80 entries were competing for the first 3 places in each class and for best-of-show. The show took place on the campus of Dauphin ...
04/02/11 ALABAMA - Athens, Day's Gap, Decatur, Fort Blakely, Mobile Bay, Selma, Spanish Fort.
03/22/11 Football returned to Mobile five months early with the season opener for the Mobile Bay Tarpons indoor football team at South Alabama's Mitchell Center on Monday night.
03/08/11 A combination of factors probably led to this year's rash of dolphin deaths, although plumes of cold water that entered Mobile Bay in January and February may have delivered the killing blow, according to one of the Gulf's foremost dolphin scientists.
03/04/11 Runoff from unusual snowfall in Alabama caused water temperatures in Mobile Bay to drop suddenly, possibly leading to stillbirths of baby dolphins, researchers say. Poisoning as a result last year's oil spill is another possible culprit.
02/26/11 Standing against the ferocious winds sweeping over the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, on Mobile Bay, I thought of Scarlett and " Gone with the Wind ," and that this year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of what many Southerners term the "Late Unpleasantness."
02/18/11 GULF SHORES, Alabama - Epicenter is less than 10 miles off the coast of Baldwin County in the Gulf of Mexico The United States Geological Survey confirms a 3.5 magnitude earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico. It happened at 5:15 p.m. at coordinates 30.180°N, 87.848°W, about 10 miles off the coast, near the tip of the Fort Morgan Peninsula at the mouth of Mobile Bay. News 5 first heard from a man on ...
02/01/11 When the north wind blows in the dead of winter, pushing an ebbing tide even lower, one of the richest and most productive parts of the Mobile Bay ecosystem is revealed.
01/22/11 Despite the chilly temperatures, volunteers hit the shores of Mobile Bay this morning to help the environment. Many showed up around 8 a.m. to kick-off the 100-1000: Restore Coastal Alabama Coalition first restoration project on the gulf coast.
01/22/11 Hundreds of volunteers from across the country lined Mobile Bay Saturday to participate in restoring oyster reefs along the coast line of Helen Wood Park. |