By Ally Morrison At Mountain Brook High School, an alternative students have to taking Spanish, French and Latin to satisfy their world language credit requirements is to take American Sign Language. According to Mountain Brook City Schools communications specialist William Galloway, only two other metro schools, Homewood and Oak Mountain, offer this form of … [Read more...]
Murphy’s Law: The Grater Good
By Sue MurphyFor Christmas, my sister gave me a box of plastic straws. I may have mentioned to her that I was frustrated by the sporadic outage of long straws at Starbucks. Okay, I may have harped on that fact repeatedly. The short straws don’t reach the bottom of the vat of green iced tea I get in the drive thru almost daily, and the off-again-on-again availability was … [Read more...]
Leadership Vestavia Hills Names Odle, Vines as Leadership Award Winners
Leadership Vestavia Hills has announced the recipients of the 2021 Community Leadership Awards.Antoinette “Toni” Vines, founder and president of Mercy Deliverance Ministries, will receive the Distinguished Citizen Award. Karen Odle, president of the Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.The two will be honored at a … [Read more...]
Vestavia Hills’ West Earns Second Straight Gatorade Cross Country Award
By Rubin E. GrantVestavia Hills senior Crawford West has been named the 2021-22 Gatorade Alabama Girls Cross Country Player of the Year.It’s the second consecutive year West has received the honor, but this time it’s particularly sweet.“I would definitely say it is more special this year since it is my final year,” West said. “It's always special to win on your last … [Read more...]
Hoover Schools Names Its Teachers of the Year
Hoover City Schools on Dec. 15 announced the 2022 Teachers of the Year Awards.Bluff Park Elementary STEAM teacher Geri Evans has been named 2022-2023 Elementary Teacher of the Year; and Hoover High biology teacher Paul McEwan has also been named Secondary Teacher of the Year.In a press release from Hoover City Schools, Evans’ principal describes her as a … [Read more...]