Living, Loving Fairhope
Final weekend of June on Mobile Bay…
Live, Love Fairhope
Southern Bayou Grill Opens
The first customer shows up before opening time, but Chef Perry Boyd doesn’t mind. He tells him to come on in. Getting to the point of being able to open a business has not been easy for the Mississippi native and partner Barbara Edwards. They tried to open their Cajun convenience store on S Mobile…
Dedicated Fisherman
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣: When you have to park a good hundred yards up the hill from the pier and haul your wagon, multiple rods, reels, chair and ‘stuff’ down the hill, navigate around construction machinery, mud, uneven surfaces and the now famous fenced Working Waterfront “this will be fun” obstacle course before…
Farmer’s Market JUN 19 2025
Chilton Co. peaches in abundance along with eggplant, corn, beef, plants, microgreens and more. Next week’s market–JUN 26 2025–is the last for the season… About the market: Where: Behind Fairhope Public Library When: Thursdays, 3pm-6pm 2025 dates: APR 3rd – JUN 26th
Out With Old, In With New
A seventy five year old home on Pecan St in Fairhope’s Fruit and Nut District meets its demise the morning of JUN 19 2025. Greg and Courtney Eidson bought the property in February and plan to build a new home on the lot. The Eidsons say restoring what was already there was not a viable…
Working Waterfront Project
Two days of rain play havoc with efforts to resurface the hill leading down to Fairhope’s pier park from Mobile St. The work in this area is what required closure of the park to vehicular traffic the week of JUN 16 2025. The project’s manager says it’s frustrating to have everything needed for the project–workers,…
Fairhope Hosts Air Race Classic
Fairhope was to have marked this morning’s start of the annual women’s Air Race Classic, but thunderstorms have other ideas. The race features pilots ranging from teenagers to seniors, from all vocations and backgrounds, with one common bond: A love of aviation. Forty one airplanes are involved in the event which consists of a timed…
Fairhope Honors Flag Day
Members of the Baldwin Co. Honor Guard share a history of the American Flag during a Flag Day celebration JUN 14 2025 at Fairhope Elks Lodge 1879. The American flag has gone through several versions during its history. The stars and stripes got their start as The Grand Union flag (also known as Continental colors),…
June 12th Farmer’s Market Fun
Only two markets left for the season… About the market: Where: Behind Fairhope Public Library When: Thursdays, 3pm-6pm 2025 dates: APR 3rd – JUN 26th
Lions Help Start Careers
For Kile Votaw and Jayvian Hawthorne, every bit of help they can get while going to school and working to build a professional career is appreciated. Both are enrolled at Coastal Alabama Community College’s Fairhope Academy; Kile is learning to become a welder, while Jayvian pursues a career in electrical instrumentation technology. When the Fairhope…