By Sam Prickett Spring is a peak season for the real estate market, and for prospective homebuyers, the search for the right house can be overwhelming – particularly when deciding whether the surrounding neighborhood is the right fit. For this issue, we’re highlighting four of the most in-demand Over the Mountain neighborhoods – one each from Homewood, Vestavia Hills, … [Read more...]
Where There’s a Till, There’s a Way: Cahaba Heights Couple Launches Local Produce Delivery Service Over the Mountain
By Emily WilliamsIf the first year of marriage is the hardest and starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster, combining the two milestones could seem as bad an idea as chewing tobacco on a tilt-a-whirl á la the opening scene of “The Sandlot.”The opposite has been the case for Will and Hayley DeShazo of Cahaba Heights, who have spent a large portion of … [Read more...]
Awaiting the Avalanche: UAB Launches New Program to Treat Adolescent Victims of Human Trafficking
By Emily WilliamsThere is a silent and sinister industry at work from the farthest reaches of the globe to our own backyard, generating an estimated $150 billion a year, according to data provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.The human trafficking industry relies on the enslavement of about 24.9 million victims at any given time, and 40 percent of its work … [Read more...]
All Business: MBHS’s Amber Benson Named Alabama Business Teacher of the Year
By Emily Williams“Far and away the best prize life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing,” is a quote from Franklin Roosevelt that has been the foundation for Amber Benson’s career in education.Benson, a business education teacher at Mountain Brook High School, recently was recognized as the Alabama Business Education Teacher of the Year by the … [Read more...]
The Bagel Tradition: Homewood Couple Turn Hobby Into a Growing Business
By Ingrid HowardOn top of having three kids and one more on the way, Joe and Ginny Leavens are lawyers by day, bagel bakers at night.“We divide and conquer,” Ginny said. “It’s a two-person process to prepare the bagels, shape them and get them ready, but the baking and the seeding in the mornings can usually be done by one of us. And the other one will get the kids off … [Read more...]