Bay Gourmet's Sarah Clark hosts The Final Play watch party at Crown Hall on November 7 to help keep McKemie Place, Mobile's only shelter for unaccompanied homeless women, open.

Zeb Hargett visits Pensacola's Studer Community Institute to see how its Venture Mentoring Service and Building Brains programs support small businesses, jobs and early learning.

South Alabama's Margaret Sullivan shares how the USA by the Bay lecture series brings the University to Fairhope, with 22 guest speakers so far and more planned.

Baldwin County's Imagination Library coordinator, Joanna Bailey, shares how Dolly Parton's book-gifting program has changed local children's lives and seen a surge of new signups since Dolly's passing.

What is it about a college campus that impacts our communities? This is not a political opinion, but a firsthand observation from my perspective as the director of development of the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama many years ago.

In looking over literacy rates by county in Alabama, Baldwin County’s is 4% higher than the state average (86%).

One of the things I enjoy most about writing these stories is discovering how connected our community really is.

The University of South Alabama campus in Mobile is close to my childhood home. I remember when the campus construction was first announced, in 1963. I was a young boy, and the implications didn’t really register at the time, but I did watch it grow in both size and stature over the years. My respect for South Alabama grew substantially when, early on, a close family friend, Dr. Neal Rowell, was hired as a professor in the physics department.