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- Christmas Tree Recycling Begins
December 25 - Keep Mobile Beautiful is making it easy for you to get rid of your old Christmas Tree after the holiday season.
- Police Patrol or Harrassment in Saraland Alabama
Have you ever been pulled over for no reason? Don't drive in Saraland, Alabama unless you have your paperwork in order for your car and yourself.
- Fire Puts Families Out of Homes
Dec. 22 - Eleven people will not be able to spend Christmas at home, after a fire Monday morning at the are Northpointe apartment complex off Shelton Beach Road in Saraland.
- Saraland super assesses proration
In the same week that Gov. Bob Riley announced massive cuts to the state schools budget, the Saraland Board of Education handed out bonuses.
- Saraland apartment fire displaces 11 residents
Fire ripped through an apartment building on Shelton Beach Road this morning, displacing families in four units, authorities said.
- Warehouse, hotel set for McIntosh site
G 1 Mechanical of Ala bama paid $1.4 million for 56 acres on U.S. 43 in McIntosh, just past Malcolm, Ala., and plans to build a 450,000- square-foot warehouse and a hotel on the land, according to Buster ...
- Riley: Forced school spendingcuts in Alabama are steeper than expected
Gov. Bob Riley declared across-the board cuts in the education budget Monday, projecting that Alabama would fall 12.5 percent -- or nearly $800 million -- short of expected state revenue for schools.
- Committee focuses on Education in county
The first organizational meeting for Friends of Education of Escambia County Foundation was held on Wednesday at the Creek Family Restaurant.
- Train hits truck in Saraland
A man driving a truck that was struck by a train in Saraland today has been treated and released from the University of South Alabama Medical Center, authorities said.
- Subdvision in Thorsby to have Christmas luminaries
The Joyland and Saraland subdivisions in Thorsby are planning a presentation of Luminaries on Saturday, Dec.
- Daphne site to be office building
Local investors paid $800,000 for a 1.1-acre lot on Ala. 181 in Daphne across from the Eastern Shore Centre and plan to build an office building, according to Nathan Cox of Bellator Real Estate & Devel opment , ...
- Saraland police sergeant works below pay grade
A Saraland police sergeant - among the highest paid sergeants in Mobile County - has been working below his pay grade while performing personal duties for the mayor, said a Personnel Board official, who months ...
- Schools get just 75% again
Though local schools are getting only 75 percent of their November allocation from the state, system officials said Monday that they will be able to make payroll this week.
- Prichard police name "person of interest" in shooting
Prichard police have identified the "person of interest" in a fatal shooting last week as 25-year-old Kanoya Dewayne Oakley, police said today.
- Mississippi man goes on trial for seeking sex with 13-year-old Daphne girl
A Mississippi man went on trial in Mobile this morning on federal charges accusing him of driving to the Eastern Shore Centre in Spanish Fort for a sexual rendezvous with a 13-year-old Daphne girl.
- State of Alabama to schools: Checks not in the mail
For the second time in as many months, state schools Superintendent Joe Morton notified local school superintendents that the state will be late in sending out its monthly funds.
- Saraland man arrested on a first-degree sexual abuse charge
MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile police arrested Jeffery Monroe Roy, 43, of Saraland today on a first-degree sexual abuse charge, authorities said Jeffery Monroe Roy was arrested on a first-degree sexual abuse charge.
- Ex-judge Stuart DuBose convicted of gun violations
Two years ago, on Election Day, Stuart DuBose sailed unopposed for a term as circuit judge for Clarke, Choctaw and Washington counties.
- Making Teacher Payroll
Oct. 29 -- School officials across the state are scurrying to find money to meet payroll by this Friday.
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City DescriptionSaraland is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, in the United States, and a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 12,288. It is a part of the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. Saraland is the third largest city in Mobile County.
Royal Dutch Shell operates the Shell Saraland Refinery in Saraland .
Saraland is located at 30°49′31″N 88°5′31″W / 30.82528, -88.09194 (30.825186, -88.091932).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.0 square miles (57.0 km²), of which, 21.9 square miles (56.7 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it (0.50%) is water.
The area that was to become the present day Saraland was included in a Spanish land grant to Don Diego Alvarez. Hence, descendants of Alvarez were the ones to give the community its first name - Alvarez Station. Later land squatters moved into the area and were able, legally, in 1800 to begin purchasing property. In 1807 a land office was opened in St. Stephens to handle all land transactions. Some of the pioneer families who seized the opportunity to buy up sections were named Alvarez, Rice, Hartley, Moore, LaCoste, Williams, Tool and Cleveland. ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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