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Legends in Concert and the OWA Theater are ready to kick-off the spring season with some of the biggest names in country music history. The longest-running and most-awarded show in Las Vegas history, Legends in Concert, will present Legends of Country this spring at the state-of-the-art OWA Theater. The show will pay tribute to four of the biggest icons and luminaries in country music, together on one stage and portrayed by the world’s greatest tribute artists. This new production is more spectacular than ever with dazzling tributes by Stacey Whitton Summers as she [...]

HCP Pumps America, which has resided in the Foley Industrial Park for eight years, plans to buy two more acres from the city for $100,000 to expand its operations, OBA reports. The vacant land is adjacent to its current facilities on 2 acres. HCP plans to add another building for warehousing more of its finished product. The city council has voted to move forward with the sale at the marketed rate, since no additional jobs are promised. The parcel, on the east side of the Foley Beach Express, is the only developed part [...]

The Foley Public Library will continue to have its regular monthly programs such as Makersaurus Time, the Doki Doki Anime Club, a Saturday movie, the Adult Anime Club and Coffee & Donuts With an Author in February 2022.  However, the library also has some special programming coming up. On Feb 8 @ 10 am, Coletta Stejskal Bailey will give a presentation at the Foley Library on identifying “Hand-made Laces.“  Lace by definition, is a thread or threads creating positive and negative spaces.  Bailey will bring many examples of the following: Cutwork or Drawn [...]

Last fall a TV crew for Simply Southern TV interviewed our Caboose Club members and shot video for a brief TV spot about Foley's Railroad Museum and Model Train Exhibit. The spot will air this Sunday on Mobile WPMI-TV 15 at 6 a.m. and will also be shown on other stations across the state. If you happen to miss it, you can catch it on the Simply Southern TV website at https://simplysoutherntv.net/ We love our Model Train Exhibit and are so thankful for the volunteer hours that the Caboose Club puts in to [...]

The Foley City Council will meet at 4 p.m. on Jan. 18 in council chambers in City Hall. During the joint work/regular session, the council on Jan. 18 will discuss: Approving a resolution requesting permission to solicit bids for a resurfacing project in the downtown area in an estimated $769,033 cost. The city will pay Sawgrass Consulting $145,020 for professional services related to the project. Approving an increase in the project for the Mel Roberts Park Pavilion to add $46,550 to the previously approved amount of $205,150. Passing a resolution accepting bids for [...]

During the Jan. 3 meeting, the Foley City Council approved staff to apply for DHS/FEMA's FY2021 SAFER (staffing for adequate fire and emergency response) grant program. If awarded, the grant would pay 100% of the salaries for nine new firefighters for three years. The City of Foley would take over the salaries during the 2025/2026 fiscal year. There is no match required with the program. This would be the fourth time the Foley Fire Department has hired officers through the SAFER grant. The application is due by Feb. 4. "We're trying to prepare [...]

The Foley City Council approved two grant applications for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) during the Dec. 20 meeting. Both grant applications were presented to Baldwin EMA as potential projects that, if awarded, would be funded by the mitigation funds. The larger application was for structural strengthening at Fire Station One. “We’ve had several conversations, even prior to Hurricane Sally, on how to potentially strengthen Fire Station One,” said Fire Chief Joey Darby. “It was originally built as a warehouse for Gulf Telephone Company, so not built and designed as a fire [...]

The Gateway Initiative team held an investor breakfast at The Port at The Wharf on Tuesday, Dec. 14 to discuss the strides being made in local workforce development. The initiative, a collaboration between the South Baldwin Chamber and the Coastal Alabama Business Chamber, is a 5-year capital project designed to help the community’s workforce, education and local businesses, and to forge strong bonds and partnerships between other chambers and municipalities. Before heading into 2022, the Gateway team took time to discuss what has been accomplished in 2021. Workforce Development Training “What we try [...]

Most City of Foley offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 17 in observance of Martin Luther King Day.  City hall, the Foley Public Library, the Foley Welcome Center, Foley’s Railroad Museum and Model Train Exhibit, the Holmes Medical Museum and the Interpretive Center at Graham Creek Nature Preserve, in addition to most city departments, will close for the day. Other amenities at Graham Creek Nature Preserve, such as the walking trails, will remain open. Emergency services will remain open. The Public Works Department will also be closed. Garbage and recycle pick up [...]

The Snowbird Coffee Drive-thru is tomorrow at the Foley Civic Center! Come and join us for refreshments anytime between 9 a.m. and noon! We will be giving out welcome bags with coupons, information and everything Foley. Explore our downtown with a scavenger hunt and have a chance to win some awesome prizes! $1,000 worth of downtown gift certificates are up for grabs! https://visitfoley.com/events/snowbird-coffee/