By Kaitlin CandelariaKay Green has added her touch of gray -- and a lot of it -- to Mt Laurel’s Designer Showcase Model Home.Green, an award-winning interior designer based in Orlando, Fla., relied on current trends and the inspiration she drew from the Mt Laurel community to decorate the new model home. The house at 110 Burnham Street will be featured in this year’s … [Read more...]
Sharing a Thing for Bling: Mom Turns Jewelry Business Over to Daughter
By Kaitlin CandelariaPeople tend to get many things from their mothers -- eye color, a fondness for certain foods and, in the case of Rose Goldner and Donna Jowers, a business.Goldner said she was inspired to start her own jewelry business while she was sitting in a salon chair almost 40 years ago.“I told my hairdresser, Ronnie, that I was leaving my job, and he … [Read more...]
Great Escape: Breakout Birmingham Lets Players Test Their Sleuthing Skills
By Kaitlin CandelariaIt was Col. Mustard in the parlor with a candlestick! Get ready to test your critical thinking skills at Homewood’s newest entertainment attraction -- Breakout Birmingham.Breakout, located in the heart of downtown Homewood, features five different rooms that participants can break out of.Here’s how it works: a group of up to eight people will go … [Read more...]
Repeating Class: Hoover Sweeps Boys’, Girls’ Titles, Homewood and Altamont Girls Win
By Lee DavisThe Alabama High School Athletic Association’s recent realignment of schools created seven classifications instead of six. In track and field, that change produced the same old story in the large-school state track and field meet at Gulf Shores last week.Hoover swept both the boys’ and girls’ Class 7A crowns with comfortable victories in team competition. … [Read more...]
Mountain Brook Boys Claim First Tennis Title Since 2010
By Lee DavisGoing into the 2015 season, the Mountain Brook boys’ tennis program had won a record 23 state championships.But surprisingly, the most recent trophy in the Spartans’ glass case dated all the way back to 2010. The four-year dearth of titles was the Mountain Brook boys’ longest dry spell since the early 1980s.That all changed at Montgomery’s Lagoon Park … [Read more...]