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Destin Little League Allstars shine bright, bring home state title
Four games, four wins and a state championship banner — that's what the Destin Little League Allstars accomplished last weekend at the Florida Intermediate 50/70 State Tournament at Palmetto in Manatee County. The Destin team, made up of 13-and-under players, went down south representing District 1 from the Panhandle.
AL.com readers make their pick for 2024 Class 6A football champion
Saraland will win the Class 6A state football championship in December. At least, that is what the majority of AL.com readers who voted in our online poll this week believe. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Gulf Sterilization Opens In Mobile
Gulf Sterilization has announced the establishment of its business as a contract sterilization provider for medical device manufacturers. It plans to develop an advanced medical device sterilization and decontamination facility at 4345 Halls Mill Road in Mobile to address supply chain and capacity pressures faced by manufacturers. It will utilize chlorine dioxide gas, which it calls an effective and environmentally friendly compound to sterilize medical devices. This project represents a $702,000 capital investment and is to create eight new jobs over the next three years. Gulf Sterilization plans to make improvements to a leased building and purchase equipment to provide its services, as well as conduct research related to the technology. Michelle Scott owns the certified woman-owned small business.
Surrealist Night Coming To MMofA
The Mobile Museum of Art (MMofA) is hosting Surrealist Night on July 25 at 6:30 p.m. Inspired by MMofA’s “DECADES: Looking Back/Moving Forward (1940 – 1959)” exhibition, it will include themed activities, including the short Surrealist film Meshes of the Afternoon and dream interpreter. Attendees can play Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative drawing game that Surrealist artists used to unlock the power of chance in the creative process, and there will be cupcakes from Flour Girls that can be decorated with surrealist elements, in addition to themed alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks.
Holiday Inn Downtown To Be Auctioned
Downtown Mobile Today reports that, according to Ten-X, the Holiday Inn Downtown, located at 301 Government Street, will be up for auction on July 29-31. The starting bid for the property is $4,700,000. Ten-X says, “The Holiday Inn Mobile Downtown Historic District boasts ideal placement as it sits along several Mardi Gras parade routes. The hotel is highly visible and easily accessible to vehicles traveling along [Highway] 98 daily.” According to Downtown Mobile Today, it is also “situated in ideal proximity of demand drivers including [the] Mobile Civic Center, Mobile Carnival Museum, Mobile Convention Center and more.” Twin Hotels LLC sold the hotel to Manhantraj Hospitality LLC for $12,000,000 in 2022.
Three Mile Creek Greenway Trail Section Opens
The City of Mobile recently opened a section of its Three Mile Creek Greenway Trail in Toulminville approximately a year after breaking ground on it. This 0.6-mi. addition to the existing trail, part of a planned 6.5-mile trail running alongside Three Mile Creek, connects neighborhoods and city parks for biking, walking, jogging, dog walking and more. It includes Americans with Disabilities Act features, security cameras, Wi-Fi and solar-powered lighting from Tricentennial Park to University Hospital and includes an 80-ft pedestrian bridge. Once completed, the full trail will be part of an 18-mile network of interconnected parks, trails and Complete Streets projects that include bicycle and pedestrian assets. Dubbed the Mobile Greenway Initiative, this larger effort is to help better connect tens of thousands of Mobilians to their community’s nature and each other.
Lugo Chosen For National Workforce Development Program
The Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce has announced that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation named Christopher Lugo, Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce director of workforce development and governmental affairs, as a participant in the 10th cohort of its business leadership program. The Business Leads Fellowship Program trains and equips leaders from state and local chambers of commerce, economic development agencies and trade associations with resources, access to experts and a network of peers to build their capacity to address pressing education and workforce challenges. Lugo was selected among 35 state and local chamber executives, economic development professionals and association leaders. The eight-month program, consisting of both in-person and virtual meetings, will cover early childhood education, K-12, postsecondary education, workforce development and more.
Walker Joins Hand Arendall Harrison Sale
Hand Arendall Harrison Sale has announced that Spencer Walker has joined the firm’s Mobile office as an associate in the litigation section. His practice includes commercial, maritime, automobile and trucking and general insurance litigation. Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Walker attended the University of Central Florida where he obtained a BS in legal studies with a minor in criminology. He then attended Cumberland School of Law, where he obtained a JD and passed the Alabama State Bar. After law school, he joined a firm and primarily practiced in general insurance defense, including automobile and trucking defense, premise liability, employment law and workers’ compensation. Walker then prosecuted for the State of Florida in the 2nd Judicial Circuit in Leon County during the pandemic, after which he worked in-house as an attorney for Danimer Scientific, Inc. in Bainbridge, Georgia. While serving as in-house counsel, he worked on a variety of legal matters, including research and development agreements, contracts, nondisclosure agreements, and Occupational Safety and Health Authority and workers’ compensation matters.
Applications Open For Mobile Chamber Minority Business Programs
The Mobile Chamber has announced Minority Business Accelerator and Minority Business Development programs. Each has a nine-week curriculum taking place between August 20 and October 15 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the University of South Alabama’s Melton Center. Those interested must apply before July 8 to be considered as candidates. Only six to eight entrepreneurs will be selected for each program. The Minority Business Accelerator is for existing companies preparing to scale, and the Minority Business Development program is designed for entrepreneurs in the ideation phase and companies under a year old with founders having little to no business experience. Participants will learn from subject-matter experts on topics including customer discovery; market research; and legal, financial and business planning.
USA Health Expands Sports Medicine With Providence Location
USA Health has expanded its sports medicine services with the opening of a new location on the campus of USA Health Providence Hospital in West Mobile. Orthopedic and sports medicine specialists are now seeing patients on the second floor of Building A101 at 6701 Airport Boulevard. This will be the primary location for USA Health Sports Medicine, with a secondary office at the Strada Patient Care Center at 1601 Center Street, Suite 3A in Midtown Mobile. The new location will provide a full range of care for patients ages 8 and older who are suffering from sports-related injuries and conditions. Patients can be seen by four fellowship-trained sports medicine providers at the new office: orthopedic surgeon Dr. Brad Clay, sports medicine/family medicine physicians Dr. Peter Rippey and Dr. Bishop Carmichael and sports medicine physician/pediatrician Dr. Sarah McMullin. USA Health is the official sports medicine provider for University of South Alabama (USA) athletics and 11 high schools in the Mobile County Public School System.
Home2 Suites Possible For Downtown Mobile
A Home2 Suites by Hilton may be coming to an area in Downtown Mobile that is now a parking lot across from The Steeple on St. Francis Street, Downtown Mobile Today reports. Plans and designs were submitted to the city in 2023 and earlier this year for a new Hilton hotel on the property, which is located just a block away from the Hilton Garden Inn on Bienville Square. The parking lot is also bordered by St. Michael and N. Joachim streets. The plans for the proposed multistory development were submitted by Desai Hotel Group, a vertically integrated private hotel investment company based in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Home2 Suites are all-suite extended-stay hotels with customizable guest room design. It also allows pets.
St. Louis Street Project To Begin In Spring
Thanks to an agreement with the State of Alabama, the City of Mobile will soon receive additional federal support for the “Innovating St. Louis Street” project, Mayor Sandy Stimpson recently announced. To begin next spring, it is to see investment of $16 million in a complete rebuilding of 17 blocks of St. Louis Street in Downtown Mobile. This will add to the area’s ongoing revitalization, which is being driven by public and private investment. The project will include new streetscaping, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, drainage, and water and sewer assets under the roadway. Improved landscaping will also add more than 50 trees along the corridor, and some of the other design elements are intended to slow traffic down and add on-street parking. “This project will move ‘block by block’ to help mitigate the impact on area businesses and keep traffic flowing in and out of Downtown Mobile,” Stimpson said. “Our staff has already done a fantastic job communicating with residents and business owners in the area and will continue to do so throughout the project.”
Carroll Elected Alabama Securities Commission Chairman
The Alabama Securities Commission (ASC) has announced that Alabama Securities Commissioner and Managing Partner at Wilkins Miller in Mobile Allen Carroll was elected ASC chairman by a unanimous vote of his fellow commissioners. Carroll is serving his second term on the commission after being recommended by the Alabama Society of CPAs and being confirmed by the Alabama Senate on April 11. His practice with Wilkins Miller includes a focus on forensic accounting and consulting services. He has served as a witness and consulting expert in a variety of commercial disputes in both civil and criminal litigation and testified and consulted on issues including determination of economic damages, lost profits, accounting malpractice, white-collar criminal matters, forensic investigations and business valuations. He graduated from the University of South Alabama with a BS in business administration with a concentration in accounting. Carroll is a CPA and member of the Association of International CPAs and Alabama Society of CPAs. He is also accredited in business valuation, is certified in financial forensics by the American Institute of CPAs and is a Certified Valuation Analyst.
TherapySouth Opens Second Baldwin County Location
TherapySouth, a privately owned physical therapy practice, has opened its second clinic in Baldwin County. This clinic, located at 27955 Highway 98, Suite AB in Daphne is the 44th TherapySouth location in the Southeast. “Clinic Director Andrew Rose, PT, DPT, ATC looks forward to providing quality, compassionate, hands-on physical therapy services to patients in the community. He continues to educate himself within his field of study and strives to provide the most advanced care for his patients,” according to a press release. TherapySouth specializes in orthopedic physical therapy, manual physical therapy, postoperative therapy, fall prevention and balance training, functional dry needling, injury prevention, performance enhancement, sports therapy and geriatric rehabilitation.
Audubon Society looking for volunteers to help protect nesting least terns
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Audubon Society is recruiting volunteers to help protect nesting birds called least terns during the Fourth of July weekend. Least terns are federally-protected birds and increased beach activity and loud noises can cause colonies to abandon their nesting sites. Volunteers are at every colony site...
LifeSouth has emergency need for blood donations
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Leaders at LifeSouth Community Blood Centers say they’re in emergency need of blood. LifeSouth says donations are usually down during the summer months due to school being out and traveling, and the need for blood goes up. Blood donors who give during the All-American Donor...
Generous donations will help bring Hawaii drowning victim home to Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Thanks to an outpouring of support, a Mobile family who asked for help getting their loved-one’s body home from Hawaii will be able to do so. It’s a story FOX10 News first brought to you Tuesday, July 2, 2024 after the family of 26-year-old Octavian Sigler learned he’d drowned there.
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