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OTMJ Features

Safari After Dark: An evening of adventure to finish the fight against GI cancer

Joanie’s Cheese Straws, Act 2

Where Joy Remembers: At Saint Luke’s Founders Place, people living with memory loss find friendship, laughter and belonging

Homewood Wins Back-To-Back Region Championships

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Homewood Wins Back-To-Back Region Championships

November 12, 2026

  By Loyd McIntosh   Photos by Jordan WaldThe milestones keep on coming for Homewood … [Read More...]

Reloaded Rebels: Vestavia Hills Flag Football Eyeing Another Deep Playoff Run

October 29, 2026

 The Vestavia Hills flag football team has reloaded and set its sights on another deep playoff run this … [Read More...]

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11/12/26

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Homewood Wins Back-To-Back Region Championships

  By Loyd McIntosh   Photos by Jordan WaldThe milestones keep on coming for Homewood … [Read More...]

Faith Takes a Dark Turn: Mountain Brook’s Russell Levenson ventures into fiction with his first novel, The Seal

 By Lee HurleyRussell Levenson Jr. has spent much of his life helping people wrestle with questions of … [Read More...]

Where Joy Remembers: At Saint Luke’s Founders Place, people living with memory loss find friendship, laughter and belonging

 Story and Photos By Karim Shamsi-BashaThe love in the hall at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church does not … [Read More...]

Joanie’s Cheese Straws, Act 2

 By Lee HurleyJoanie Hartson Mulkin grew up as one of six girls in a pink New Orleans house with a … [Read More...]

Fresh Air, Family Fun: New Guide Explores Alabama’s Outdoor Adventures

 A memorable family adventure may be closer than you think. In her new book, Fresh Air Family: Alabama: 75 … [Read More...]

Safari After Dark: An evening of adventure to finish the fight against GI cancer.

  By Chip LongWhen the sun sets, the adventure begins! The Robert E. Reed … [Read More...]

Reloaded Rebels: Vestavia Hills Flag Football Eyeing Another Deep Playoff Run

 The Vestavia Hills flag football team has reloaded and set its sights on another deep playoff run this … [Read More...]

Dream Home: Interior designers from all over Birmingham have collaborated to decorate a custom home in the heart of Vestavia Hills that feels like it’s been gathered and collected over many years.

 By Madoline Markham Koonce   Photography by Jean AllsoppImagine you had a different interior … [Read More...]

Songs from the Porch: Crestfest is back and growing fast.

 story and photos By Brent ThompsonOlivia Pierce and Clay McDowell knew there was a way to pull their … [Read More...]

Ben Berguson Celebrates 100th Win as Homewood Head Coach

 By Loyd McIntosh   Photo by Jordan WaldOn September 18, the Homewood Patriots traveled down I-65 … [Read More...]

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