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Before traffic bound for Dauphin Island crosses a high-rise bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway, it traverses a low, narrow causeway vulnerable to hurricane damage. That sliver of land is about to get more than $30 million in reinforcement that also will add an expanse of salt marsh habitat to the shoreline. The Mobile County Commission voted Monday to accept a $22.6 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) for work that will protect the causeway as well as hundreds of acres of salt marsh to its west, while adding new marsh to the east. “This project restores an...

Work to begin this summer on conservation project with $31 million overall price tag

Body of missing Mississippi student found on Alabama island Follow Us Question of the Day       By - Associated Press - Thursday, May 6, 2021 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) - Authorities have located the body of a Mississippi college student who disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico off Alabama’s Dauphin Island. Mayor Jeff Collier says police and fire officials on Wednesday found the body of a man identified by the Coast Guard as 20-year-old Robert Brent of Yazoo County, Mississippi. The University of Souther...

Missing Southern Miss student Robert Brent’s body found off Dauphin Island beach, mayor says AL.com 3 hrs ago Howard Koplowitz, al.com © Dennis Pillion This bulkheaded property on Dauphin Island's west end shows how coastal erosion has impacted the island. The body of Robert Brent, a University of Southern Mississippi student who went missing Sunday while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast, was found Wednesday off a Dauphin Island beach, the city’s mayor said. Brent, 20, of Yazoo County, Mississippi, was last seen while swimming Sunday off the southe...

Missing USM student’s body found in Dauphin Island May 5, 20211 The body of missing USM student Robert Brent was found earlier today by Dauphin Island Police and Fire Rescue. Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier says... May 5, 2021 It’s been a while since a South Mississippi group of women of faith have met, but it won’t be long before the Women of... May 5, 20211 The 38th annual National Travel and Tourism Week is a week which unites communities to celebrate what travel means to American jobs, economic growth,... May 5, 2021 Two years ago today, the South Mississippi community lost a belo...