Saraland Mayor Dr. Howard Rubenstein has chosen not to seek re-election this August after 24 years in office as the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history. Rubenstein, a Chicago native who moved to Pensacola for his residency training in the early 1980s and eventually settled in Saraland, was first elected to the city council in […]

Visitors to Slocomb often do double-takes while driving down South Dalton Street. They see the street’s namesake drugstore with a mural on a brick wall. The inscription reads: “Dalton Pharmacy, Your Pharmacy since 1903.” The pharmacy has been owned and operated by four generations of Daltons throughout its 122 years. Evidence of the store’s longevity […]

Alabama State Sen. Greg Albritton made his case for bringing the nuclear industry to south Alabama during an address to the Mobile County Municipal Association’s Nov. 21 meeting at Steele Creek Lodge. Albritton (R-Atmore) voiced opposition to the Mobile Chamber of Commerce’s fight against bringing the U.S.S. Enterprise, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, to Mobile for […]

In the heart of lovely Eufaula, Alabama, stands a statue like no other. About waist high, under shady trees, it is a testament to a town hero, Leroy Brown. What’s so unique about that you ask? Leroy Brown is a fish. Leroy was a larger than life, livin’ large, largemouth bass. This is the story, […]