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Shops, lofts next to Mobile’s Dew Drop on track for summer opening Updated 11:12 AM; Today 11:12 AM The Lofts at Midtown, a mixed-used development next to Mobiles iconic Midtown restaurant the Dew Drop Inn, is on track for a summer opening, according to its developer.Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com Facebook Share Timing can be everything, and it looked a little iffy for The Lofts at Midtown back in March 2020, when developers closed on property next to Mobile’s Dew Drop Inn only to hav...

‘It’s bigger than man:’ Looking back at Mobile’s flood of 1981 Updated May 06, 2021; Mobilians going about their business on May 5, 1981, were no strangers to heavy rains. But they had little idea what was coming. Hurricane Frederic, in September 1979, had resulted in a federal disaster declaration. Another had come in spring 1980, which saw two rounds of flooding. During one of those, in April, a dam failed at Municipal Park “emptying the lake into Three Mile Creek and ultimately in...

A 19-year-old with multiple gunshot wounds died Sunday in Mobile.

Restaurants we miss in Mobile Updated Apr 08, 10:30 AM; Posted Apr 08, 9:58 AM The lunch crowd fills Drayton Place on Monday, Dec. 30, 2002, in downtown Mobile, Ala.Mike Kittrell/Press-Register Facebook Share Kick off a conversation about bygone restaurants in Mobile and you’ll hear about some COVID casualties. But it’s likely to go far deeper than that. A longer look back finds some legendary places with stories that grew with Mobile after (or even through) its World War II boom. Some ar...

If a MoonPie arcs through the darkness, and no one’s there to catch it, does it make a sound when it hits the street?