Health: How to wear and clean your cloth face mask, PAGE 8 Chamber hosts Honoring Our Heroes drive through The Courier PAGE 7 Fairhope MAY 20, 2020 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ reopens Fairhope approves water conservation directive By GUY BUSBY reserves are dropping faster library,
[email protected] than city wells can fill tanks. “I would like to make an FAIRHOPE — With water announcement to city resi- City Hall demand exceeding supply in dents,” Council President Jack Fairhope, the City Council Burrell said. “If you are on voted in a special meeting the Fairhope water system to By GUY BUSBY Thursday night to urge resi- please conserve water begin-
[email protected] dents to stop irrigating lawns ning immediately. I would ask and take other efforts to con- you to please stop irrigating FAIRHOPE — After being serve water. unless you have a new lawn or closed since March, the By Monday, water supplies new landscaping and I would Fairhope Public Library were near normal, according ask you to help us get through to Mayor Karin Wilson. Stor- this time. Hopefully, we’ll get SEE REOPENS, PAGE 2 age capacity had reached 95 a little rain soon and we’ll get percent by Sunday. Well 8 back on-line as soon GUY BUSBY / STAFF PHOTO The council voted Thursday as the first of next week and Storage levels in the Fairhope water tanks hit record lows last week to approve water conservation DEATHS PAGE 9 leading the Fairhope City Council to urge residents to conserve water, measures after being told that SEE WATER, PAGE 24 including to not irrigate lawns.