🌱 Artificial Turf + Mobile Police Department Campaign + Alabama Power

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Here are the top three stories in Mobile today:

1. All Mobile public high school football fields will be converted to artificial turf. Commissioners voted at a board meeting on Thursday and approved the hiring of the Allred Architectural Group for the project, which will convert the six existing football fields at Baker High, Blount High, Alma Bryant High, Citronelle High, Mary G. Montgomery High, and Theodore High. The move is expected to lower maintenance costs at the stadiums. (NBC 15 WPMI)
2. The Mobile Police Department has begun a new campaign to recruit officers. To counter this shortage, the city has started a campaign called Blue by the Bay, which targets specific geographic regions and people searching for law enforcement positions on the coast. In total, the department is looking to fill 63 open officer positions. (WKRG News 5)
3. The Alabama Power Company is on schedule and on budget with its $1 billion expansion, which was approved by the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2020. According to the company, roughly 70 percent of the construction has been completed. The new combined-cycle gas unit at the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant in Mobile County is slated to begin operating next year. (AL.com)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander, now living in New York. She works as a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, drinking tea, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.