BY CARTER E. ANTHONY   Upon arrival in Milwaukee, we were greeted by hosts in their private cars and whisked away for the 30-minute ride to Port Washington. The drive was parallel to the Lake Michigan shore, obviously scenery that we had never seen.  It was a beautiful drive. My student host was Paul Shafer,…

BY ANNIE CRENSHAW   In 1909, with his partner and friend, James Allison, and several other businessmen, Carl Fisher invested in a race track as a testing facility for Indiana’s growing automobile industry. The investors’ idea was that, as cars from different manufacturers competed against each other on the new track, spectators would see each…

Idalia is the first tropical system to make a statement in the Gulf this hurricane season. The system was forecast to become a dangerous “major hurricane” over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico by early Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane watches are in effect along the Gulf Coast from Sarasota County all the way…

University of South Alabama President Jo Bonner and his wife, Janee, hosted a special cookout dinner for students from Greenville High School and Fort Dale Academy at his home in Mobile, on the eve of the Fall 2023 semester. Bonner is an alumnus of Fort Dale Academy and maintains close ties to the area. Fifteen…