Bayou La Batre, Alabama

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• Road Closing in Bayou La Batre
  

  For the next two weeks, Shell Belt Road West will be closed south of Faith Street in Bayou La Batre, effective immediately.

• Oystermen to move 6 million pounds of oysters to Mobile Bay reef
  

  Oysterman Slade Harbison pulls up oysters from the beds off Cedar Point Reef, north of Dauphin Island, Ala., as the sun comes up early Wednesday, Aug.

• University of Alabama in Birmingham grad honored as Surgeon General
  

  Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A,. is the 18th Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service.

• Hurricane Scale Change - Bayou La Batre Alabama - WKRG.com
  

  Hurricane Scale Change - Bayou La Batre Alabama - WKRG.com : "BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama - Hurricane Katrina came ashore as a category three storm in 2005.

• After 35 years, Merry Widows still grieving for a guy named Joe
  

  Mahalia Cain, left, and Sue Ellen Cain of the Cain's Merry Widows will parade today down the streets of downtown Mobile.

• Census tour stopping in Bayou La Batre today
  

  Officials with the U.S. Census Bureau will set up shop from 3-7 p.m. today at the Greer's Shopping Plaza in Bayou La Batre, 416 S. Wintzell Ave.

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• Reel Report: Redfish biting at Katrina Cut
  

  Despite all of the bad news, I can actually report where some fish are biting besides the Theodore Industrial Canal thanks to Bobby Abruscato.

• Bayou La Batre's old library becomes its new welcome center
  

  From left: incoming Bayou La Batre Historical Association president Debra Jones, Rachel Barbour with the Bayou La Batre Chamber of Commerce, Historical Association member Sylvia Collier, and former Historical Association president Harold Hodges talk in the front room of the Bayou La Batre Chamber of Commerce welcome center in Bayou La Batre, Ala., ...

• Snow, cold weather forecast for Alabama
  

  Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 9:06 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 9:06 a.m. Snow is forecast for Alabama, and it may show up as far south as Mobile.

• Southwest Alabama, Gulf Coast could see snowfall Friday
  

  MOBILE, Ala. -- Come Friday, there could be snow falling on docks and piers in south Mobile County.

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  Mobile's Vietnamese community is ringing in the New Year. Next Friday marks the Asian New Year or Tet.

• Phoenix-based company labeled Vietnamese catfish as grouper, says indictment
  

  A federal grand jury in Mobile has accused executives of a Phoenix seafood supplier of passing off Vietnamese catfish as more-expensive fish to customers throughout south Alabama and northwest Florida.

• Bayou La Batre Fire Department thanks supporters with fish fry
  

  Bayou La Batre Street Department Supervisor Jimmy Warren puts oysters into the fryer at the Bayou La Batre Fire Station Tuesday, Jan.

• Bayou La Batre school receives $40,000 grant to restock Katrina-damaged library
  

  Alba Middle School in Bayou La Batre received another $40,000 grant from the Laura Bush Foundation to continue to restock its library, which was damaged in Hurricane Katrina.

• Moon Pie madness: Author delves into history of the marshmallow pie in Mobile's Mardi Gras
  

  Emily Blejwas holds a vanilla Moon Pie outside the Mobile Carnival Museum in downtown Mobile.

• The New Surgeon General's Lifestyle Legacy
  

  On Monday January 11th, America's 18th Surgeon General , Vice Admiral Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA , was sworn into office during an emotional and extraordinary commissioning ceremony in Washington DC.

• Legislature: Don't stop with text ban law
  

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ The sad thing about legislation aimed at curbing cell phone use while driving is that a law is needed in the first place.

City Description

Bayou La Batre (pronounced /ˌbaɪ.oʊ lə ˈbætri/, locally IPA: [ˌbaɪlə ˈbætʃɹi]) is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. At the 2000 census, the population was 2,313. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 2,725. Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats. The local Chamber of Commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats. Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was founded in 1786, when French-born Joseph Bouzage (Bosarge) [1733-1795] was awarded a 1,259-acre (5.1 km) Spanish land grant on the West Bank of the bayou (see history below). The modern City of Bayou La Batre was incorporated in 1955. Bayou La Batre was featured in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump and the book upon which it is based. In April 2005, Disney Studios launched a secretly built pirate ship, the Black Pearl, out of Bayou La Batre for filming sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. On August 29, 2005, the

City Contained By:

• Mobile County
• Alabama
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 10.6189512524 km squared

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