For most students, the summer is a time to relax and recharge, maybe take a class or two. But one Over the Mountain resident will spend her summer working at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country.Elizabeth Wood of Vestavia Hills, a second-year pharmacy student at Auburn University, will spend the summer in Rochester, Minn., at Mayo Clinic. She was … [Read more...]
Wins and Titles
By Lee DavisAny time Hoover and Spain Park get together on an athletic field, you can count on a first-class battle.And that’s exactly what happened when the fourth-ranked Bucs met the 10th-ranked Jaguars in a key baseball matchup Saturday.Spain Park used the pitching of Tristan Widra and clutch hitting to take a 4-2 victory.Hoover took a 2-0 lead after RBI … [Read more...]
Artful Addition
By Keysha DrexelJournal editorThe Vestavia Hills Beautification Board is adding a celebration of art to its annual observance of the beauty of spring in the city.The board is hosting the inaugural Art in The Hills art show April 19 as a part of the annual Vestavia Hills Dogwood Festival.The art show will be from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Vestavia City Center and … [Read more...]
Mountain Brook AIDS Researcher Earns National Award
A noted AIDS researcher and Mountain Brook resident was one of only three doctors from the U.S. to receive the Clinical Excellence Award at the National Physician of the Year Awards ceremony in New York City March 31.Michael Saag, professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and director of the Center for AIDS Research, received the award at a … [Read more...]
Carpenter’s Book Strives for Complete Picture of His Father
By Keysha DrexelJournal editorWhen Douglas M. Carpenter of Mountain Brook set about to write his father's biography, the retired minister of Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills knew a part of that book would include how his father was the first of eight clergy members addressed in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" during Holy Week … [Read more...]