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Bucs and Eagles Lead 2014 All-OTM Football Team

January 14, 2015

By Lee Davis   The 2014 high school football season was filled with highlights, but no two teams may have made bigger splashes than the Hoover Bucs and the Oak Mountain Eagles. Hoover overcame two early losses to out-of-state powers to win its third consecutive state championship and the first-ever title in the newly-created Class 7A and continued a long winning … [Read more...]

Her Science Lessons Have an English Accent

January 14, 2015

Carmel McNicholas-Bevensee Her Science Lessons Have an English Accent By Jeff Hansen Carmel McNicholas-Bevensee grew up in Manchester, England, the world’s first industrial city. Her dad was a carpenter and joiner from Ballyglass in County Mayo, Ireland, and her mum grew up in nearby Greyfield. Both of her parents were upbeat people, and that family attitude kept … [Read more...]

Russian Native Puts Down Roots in Vestavia Hills

January 14, 2015

Yakov Kasman Russian Native Puts Down Roots in Vestavia Hills By Shannon Thomason No one was more surprised than Yakov Kasman when he realized Alabama had become home. Originally from Orel, a city near Moscow, Russia, the professor of piano and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham came to the state by way of Huntsville. He and his wife, … [Read more...]

Indian Couple Likes Brook Highlands’ Neighborliness

January 14, 2015

Beena and Victor Thannickal Indian Couple Likes Brook Highlands’ Neighborliness By Jeff Hansen Beena Thannickal came to the U.S. from the state of Kerala, India, at age 5. Her father was studying engineering in Hartford, Conn., and the rest of the family was finally able to join him. She had no American clothes until the Central Baptist Church and her school … [Read more...]

International Family Feels at Home in Homewood

January 14, 2015

Jie “Sophie” Zhang and Shia Kent International Family Feels at Home in Homewood By Jeff Hansen Jie “Sophie” Zhang and her husband, Shia Kent, moved to Homewood’s Mayfair neighborhood one year ago, when they finally left what they call “the UAB bubble.” They had entered the bubble as graduate students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2005. Like many of … [Read more...]

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