Fairhope Alabama

Pete Blohme and his sister Cheryl sit down at StoryCorps to reminisce on the opening of Panini Petes in Fairhope, Alabama. From building their menu to building a customer base, they touch on how they achieved long-term success and stability.

From Key West, Florida, and beyond, the world became an extension of Jimmy Buffett's musical kingdom of "Margaritaville." With the passing of the beach-bum balladeer at the age of 76, legions of his fans are celebrating the music he left behind.

An estimated three hundred school-age children are homeless right now in Baldwin County. The new Baldwin Family village is a thirteen-unit facility for transitional housing and homeless support services.

Fairhope will be having its annual Arts & Crafts Festival this weekend (March 17-19). This marks its 71st year and it is free to the public.

For the past few months, the Alabama Public Radio news team has been looking into why educated and skilled workers are leaving the Gulf coast for other parts of the country. We call our series “Should I stay or should I go?” Some of our coverage has focused on strategies to keep workers here. Today, we’re looking at a solution from the Alabama Small Business Development Center that may have been sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

It seems like Inflation is top of everyone’s minds for these days. The latest numbers show prices rose a little more than seven and a half percent in October. But anyone who has been to the grocery store knows the cost of food outpaces those numbers. APR grad student reporter Cori Yonge visited a south Alabama food pantry. She explains what this might mean for the less fortunate this holiday season.

Fans of Walt Disney World in Orlando saw the ribbon cutting for the new EPCOT theme park back in 1982. That was the same year Alabama Public Radio first took to the airwaves. The APR news team has been observing our fortieth anniversary by diving in our archives to re-air some of our best stories. That includes this one from last year. Customers of a Fairhope gas station left handwritten tribute messages after the owner died from natural causes. APR Gulf coast correspondent Lynn Oldshue has more on this life well lived from the APR archives.

Alabama is going to be featured at the Oscars for the second year in a row. Last year the psychological thriller “Get Out” won best original screenplay…

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against a company accused of retaliating against whistleblowing workers in Selma.Workers in a…

Police in Fairhope say more than a dozen drivers had to be rescued from flooded roads in the south Alabama city. Police Lt. Stephanie Hollinghead tells…