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Professional cowboys and cowgirls from all over the country are getting ready for their favorite Southeastern Rodeo. The 23rd Annual Jennifer Claire Moore Foundation Professional Rodeo will take place on Thursday, Aug. 5, Friday, Aug. 6 and Saturday, Aug. 7 at the City of Foley Horse Arena. This Rodeo features exciting events including bull riding, barrel racing, bareback riding, calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, break away roping and much more. The event’s top sponsors include South Baldwin Regional Medical Center, WKRG, and Frances Holk-Jones State Farm. “We are so grateful for the [...]

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Monday announced that Alabama’s COVID-19 public health order will end Monday, May 31, 2021, and the state of emergency will end Tuesday, July 6, 2021. “For over a year now, Alabamians, like people around the globe, have made sacrifices and adjusted to a temporary ‘new normal.’ We have learned much since last year, and this is absolutely now a managed pandemic. Our infection rates and hospitalizations are in better shape, and over 1.5 million Alabamians have had at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine,” Governor Ivey said. [...]

County health departments in the Southwestern Public Health District will offer free walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations without appointments beginning May 3. Appointments are still available for eligible individuals and may be made by visiting https://alcovidvaccine.gov/. The Moderna vaccine will be given to people age 18 and older. Baldwin        23280 Gilbert Drive, Robertsdale – 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Thursday only

Throughout Baldwin County, construction has been slow going since Hurricane Sally devastated the area in September 2020. The Snook Family YMCA has felt these complications as well. The building was left in shambles after Sally tore off patches of the roof and water flooded down nearly every inch of the interior. While the exterior hid the inner destruction, once you stepped inside the impact was immediate. The building had to be gutted following the storm. Now, passersby can spot movement within the Y, as progress has begun on the path to reconstruction. Read [...]

Please be advised we just received a call from Riviera Utilities notifying us of an immediate road closure on South Hickory Street, from Crown Walk Subdivision southward to CR 12.  This is the vicinity just to the south of CR 20S, southwards to CR 12.  The closure is due to damage sustained to the power supply of Riviera's lift station this morning.  This road closure will continue until we hear word that it is all clear.

As we make our way into spring, we can’t help but reflect on where we were one year ago.  Covid arrived with a vengeance. Leaving us with a lot of unanswered questions and uncertainty of which direction we were headed. Fast forward one year, and here we are gradually making our way back to a new normal. We are super excited to announce that our Foley Senior Center plans to do a soft re-opening on Monday, May 3, 2021.  We are starting out with activities that can easily promote physical distancing and over the [...]

Dog owners visiting the Foley Dog Park will find a new addition soon - a stick library. The project was brought forward by students in Foley Elementary School teacher Christine Speir’s class. Many of the students are involved in Foley Elementary School’s Pet Pals program, designed to teach kids writing, communication skills, geography, and much more. “We believe the sticks would provide dogs and their owners hours of play,” the students wrote in a letter to the city mayor and council. “The library would be a place where dogs could return the sticks [...]