Ryan and Geri-Martha O’Hara, founders of Big Spoon Creamery, have partnered with close friends Jim and Amy Watkins, who founded Steel City Pops, to launch a new doughnut concept in Avondale, Sons Donuts. According to a press release, Ryan O’Hara notes that the doughnut shop will be a new doughnut experience, serving mini doughnuts cooked hot to order with choices of sugar … [Read more...]
Game Changer: Board of Realtors 2021 President Kelli Gunnells Discusses Residential Housing Market Trends
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw Homes perhaps have never been more important than during the year of social distancing and quarantines. Perhaps that is why the residential real estate industry has seen an expansion of work rather than the shrinkage many other industries have experienced. When asked to describe what she has seen trending in the market, the Birmingham Board of … [Read more...]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Grassroots Organization MB Listens Seeks to Spread Acceptance in Mountain Brook
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw For many in the community, the summer of 2020 will remain a tumultuous memory – a time when many felt trapped in their homes and downtrodden in society in more ways than one. Nevertheless, some good came out of it. For Mountain Brook resident Kevin Cornes, father of three Mountain Brook City Schools students, one of those silver linings was the … [Read more...]
Re-structuring Summer Camp: Camp Officials Discuss How They Will Adapt to Ongoing Pandemic Effects
The 2020 summer camp season was colored with questions as camps scrambled to regroup and reframe the ways in which they serve kids and parents amidst lockdowns and constantly evolving health and safety regulations. This year is no different, so we have caught up with the officials running three of our favorite local summer camp programs to look back on last year and to the … [Read more...]
Play Jeopardy!: Altamont Alum Had Three-Day Winning Streak on Popular Gameshow
By Laine Williams A dream came true recently for Lucy Ricketts, a 2004 Altamont graduate who completed a three-day winning streak on the popular gameshow Jeopardy. Her final winnings totaled $79,499, but the memory of the experience was the real prize, she said. Ricketts, a Mountain Brook native, attended her last two years of high school at The Altamont School before going … [Read more...]