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Rotary Club provides schools with literacy kits Fairhope East Elementary (from left): Edward Schnell, president of the Rotary Club of Fairhope; Carol Broughton, FEE principal; Christina Stacey, FEE assistant principal; Poenta Luckie, 2019–2020 president, Rotary Club of Fairhope. Fairhope West Elementary (from left): Edward Schnell, president of the Rotary Club of Fairhope; Caroline Hollowell, FWE assistant principal; Poenta Luckie, 2019–2020 president, Rotary Club of Fairhope. Posted
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In early 2020, Poenta Luckie, then president of the Rotary Club of Fairhope, solicited grant requests from local schools.
The township s Zoning Commission will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. to tackle the issue.
The site, located in the 4000 block of Addison Avenue NE, is vacant since the school building was razed about a decade ago. A limited liability corporation called Fairhope Properties acquired the property from the Louisville City Board of Education.
Its plans are not clear. They did file an application that they want to rezone, township Zoning Inspector Jeff Shipman said. They are going to bring their ideas to us. But no specifics (yet).
Jay Barton, a local accountant who is an agent for Fairhope Properties, did not have much to say about plans for the property.
Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival returns with all-Alabama lineup
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
Prior to COVID-19, the annual Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival regularly drew massive crowds to the Eastern Shore city. After being shut down by COVID-19 in 2020, the festival returns April 30-May 2. Changes made in response to the pandemic include a smaller roster of artists with a new focus on Alabama creators.Mike Kittrell/Press-Register
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The Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival, the flagship event of its kind, returns this weekend after being canceled in 2020, and an organizer says it’s no exaggeration to say that the occasion is like Christmas.