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By Guy Busby FAIRHOPE – Residents and businesses in Fairhope will start paying more for garbage collection starting April 1 under a proposal to be voted on Monday, Feb. 22. Under the plan, residential rates would increase from $15.80 a month to $20. Business fees would increase from $20.26 to $25. Under the budget passed at the Feb. 8 meeting, the city would run a deficit of about $933,000 for garbage collection in the next year under the current fees, Jack Burrell, council president, said. A...

New start set April 30 Crowds fill downtown Fairhope during a past Arts and Crafts Festival. The City Council will vote Feb. 22 to postpone the 2021 event until April 30. File photo Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival Posted By Guy Busby FAIRHOPE – City Council members plan to postpone the Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival from mid-March until at least the end of April due to COVID-19 precautions. Officials supporting the delay said tha...

By Guy Busby FAIRHOPE – Baldwin and Mobile officials plan to ask Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Transportation to look at options to get the Interstate 10 Mobile River bridge project back on track. Fairhope City Council President Jack Burrell told Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization members Wednesday, Jan. 27, that he had asked Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson to send a joint letter from the two MPOs asking state officials to resume plans for the project. Burrell is chair...

By Guy Busby FAIRHOPE – Garbage rates are not covering the costs of collecting material twice a week in Fairhope, leaving city officials debating cutting services or increasing fees. During budget discussions at the Jan. 25 City Council work session, members said garbage revenue is not keeping up with costs. “I’m starting to get a little bit concerned about the revenues in our Sanitation Department and the costs that it takes us to collect our garbage and I know that we just had some annu...

Will the I-10 bridge talks begin anew without tolls? Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 A rendering of the I-10 Mobile River Bridge in downtown Mobile, Ala., as presented in 2019. Its unclear what a new design might look like once an alternative I-10 project is reconsidered. (rendering courtesy of the Alabama Department of Transportation) Facebook Share The one caveat: Coastal officials say that tolls can’t be assessed on the existing free routes. The Eastern Shore Metropolitan Plan...

FAIRHOPE – Members of the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization could vote as early as Wednesday, Jan. 27, to get a new Mobile Bay Bridge proposal back into consideration.

By Guy Busby FAIRHOPE – Proposed changes in the South Beach bluff that had drawn complaints from some residents are being dropped from the draft of the Fairhope Working Waterfront plan, designers and city officials said. A sand beach south of the Fairhope Pier has also been dropped from the proposal, Scott Hutchinson of Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood an engineer working on the project, said. “The big items are no beach and no bluff work,” he told City Council members on Jan. 11. Council member...

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