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- Seafood and tourism website aims to alleviate oil spill fears
Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre have launched a website aimed at answering questions about tourism and seafood safety in south Alabama.
- Local Rig Worker Reacts to News of Platform Explosion
For those who work offshore and their families, Thursday's news of an explosion off the coast of Louisiana was unsettling to say the least.
- New Gulf Coast tourism site launched in time for holiday weekend
A new tourism website is online in time for Labor Day travelers. Two of the cities that have been impacted by the BP oil spill, Bayou La Batre and Dauphin Island, have jointly launched www.AlabamaCoast.org . The site has the latest information on upcoming events and seafood safety.
- Mobile County DHR saw record number of food stamp applications in July
Members of the US Army carry food into St. Margret's Church in Bayou La Batre, AL on Thursday, August 26, 2010 while a crowd of people patiently wait.
- University of West Alabama has long history of education in region
LIVINGSTON -- The Univer sity of West Alabama is in the midst of celebrating its terquasquicentennial.
- Ken Feinberg: 1,200 oil claims checks in the first week 'not acceptable'
Oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg walks with Travis Stringfellow as he tries to leave a meeting with possible claimants at the Bayou La Batre Community Center on Aug.
- Abandoned Boom Washes Ashore
No oil was spotted during the overflight in the News 5 WInd Creek Chopper Monday morning, but our crews did spot plenty of runaway boom.
- Bayou La Batre Hurricane Survivors Remember the Wrath of Katrina
Although five years have passed since the wrath of Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the painful memories of the storm live on through the people who lost so much.
- Sewers overflow in three locations in Bayou La Batre
Sewage overflows were reported in three places on Shell Belt Road in Bayou La Batre Saturday, resulting in spillages totaling 13,800 gallons, the Mobile County Health Department said.
- Church Overwhelmed With Need in Bayou La Batre
Bayou La Batre's Hemley Church of Christ first heard the calling after Hurricane Katrina.
- Progress Is Made in Bayou La Batre 5 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Not so long ago there was a sign in front of city hall that read This Town is Storm Ready.
- Rondale, Hamelin offering new music
This promises to be a good weekend for original music: Distinctive Gulf Coast group Rondale & the Kit Katz are releasing a new album with a Saturday show at Pirates Cove in Josephine, and Hamelin, a Mobile-based rock group, is offering an all-originals performance the same evening at the Blind Mule.
- Reward posted in case of woman missing since 2008
A $5,000 reward has been posted by the state for information about the disappearance of Tammy Stokes of Bayou La Batre, who has been missing for more than two years, police said.
- Talbot: Jo Bonner runs into anger during weeklong district tour
It was 8:30 a.m. on Monday, and math class was in session at the Bayou La Batre City Hall.
- Hunt for submerged oil from Gulf spill in inshore waters comes up empty so far
About 41 2 miles south of the Grand Bay Wildlife Refuge, a U.S. Coast Guardsman dropped a sorbent pad tied to an anchor 10 feet to the bottom and then slowly pulled it up today.
- Lines are long as revamped oil spill claims process launches
Commercial fisherman Billy Howerin asks Gulf Coast Claims Facility Claims Evaluator Billy Saranthas a question after oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg left a meeting with possible claimants at the Bayou La Batre Community Center on Saturday, Aug.
- Weekend roundup: Oil claims czar tours Alabama coast; building cars in Prichard?
Oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg walks with Travis Stringfellow as he tries to leave a meeting with possible claimants at the Bayou La Batre Community Center Saturday, Aug.
- Lack of translators makes oil spill claims process arduous for Southeast Asian immigrants
Dave Do with Boat People S.O.S. gives a headset and receiver to Hong Dang as oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg answers questions during a meeting with possible claimants at the Bayou La Batre Community Center Saturday, Aug.
- Gulf Oil Spill: Tracking the Claims - River of paperwork, trickle of checks
Read more from the "Gulf Oil Spill: Tracking the Claims" series. Coden, Ala., resident Lori Bosarge has yard decorated with her oil spill signs in early July.
City DescriptionBayou La Batre (pronounced /ˌbaɪ.oʊ lə ˈbætri/, locally [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 (509 ha) 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 area ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Mobile County
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