By Emily Williams More than a year after residents of Mountain Brook voted in favor of a 10-mill tax increase, Mountain Brook City Schools is starting to see the result. The tax hike was projected to raise an additional $6 million a year for the school system’s budget. In October, the school system began receiving those funds and already has put them to work, announcing … [Read more...]
‘Team Effort’ : Determined Spartans Ascend to Volleyball Throne Again
By Rubin E. GrantThe Mountain Brook volleyball team took it as a slight.Even though the Spartans won the 2019 Class 7A state championship with a school-record 59 victories and moved down a classification this year, few gave them a chance of capturing the Class 6A crown.The low expectations weren’t a surprise, considering Mountain Brook won its 2019 title with a … [Read more...]
Murphy’s Law: The Good Old US of A
By Sue Murphy I had a double snake encounter last week and, as I get ready for Halloween, that’s as scared as I want to get. My knee-jerk reaction was to put a For Sale sign in my front yard and start looking for an antiseptic condo, and I might have done it, too, except that, later that day, I looked down to find a large brown insect calmly making his way onto … [Read more...]
Distinguished Service: Col. Channon Among Honorees for Military Service During Hoover’s Veteran’s Week
By Rubin E. Grant Col. Bob Channon, U.S. Army retired, has been asked many times whether he fought in World War II. Channon, 95, is old enough to be a member of what some American historians call the “Greatest Generation,” even though he didn’t get the chance to fight in “The Big One.” “He would have loved to have gone to the war, but he was still at West Point,” said Lyn … [Read more...]
Creative Escape: Lilt Floral’s McAfee Finds Beauty Distracts From Today’s Problems
By Emily Williams Sometimes you just need to look at something beautiful. As the tenth month of 2020 rolls past, there have been countless “sometimes” so worrying that you simply needed to turn your mind away and bask in a bit of creative beauty. Creativity is like air for Brooke McAfee, a floral designer and stylist who owns and operates Birmingham-based Lilt … [Read more...]