By Rubin E. Grant The curtain came down on Sean Calhoun’s first season as Vestavia Hills’ head football coach last Thursday. The Rebels shut out Shades Valley 17-0 at the Mounties’ Frank Nix Stadium to close their 2021 season with three consecutive victories. Calhoun completed his first season following legendary Rebels coach Buddy Anderson with the same 4-6 record Anderson … [Read more...]
Star Turn: 2021 Inspiration Home Team Embraces the Spanish Colonial and English Tudor Influence In Hollywood Neighborhood
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw When husband-and-wife team Kevin and Leigh Misso of River Brook Design and Construction set out to create a home to inspire, the story was in the details. The result is a true dichotomy of design. It’s a modern European design that honors the historical Hollywood community. It offers an open and airy floor plan but reads as unique rooms filled … [Read more...]
‘Back to One’: Lawyer and Professor Publishes First Novel
By Emily Williams-Robertshaw It is Anne Glass’ philosophy that everything comes in its own time. The Arizona native entered the workforce as an actress in Los Angeles. Decades later, she has her juris doctorate, lives in North Shelby County and is a tax advisor at H&R Block, also serving as a professor of tax law at the Birmingham School of Law. Come Nov. 2, she will … [Read more...]
Having A Blast: Colvin Enjoying First Season as Spartans’ Starting Quarterback
By Rubin E. Grant Mountain Brook junior quarterback John Colvin doesn’t pinch himself every time he steps on the football field to make sure he’s not dreaming. But he is living the dream as the Spartans’ starter after growing up watching Hamp Sisson and Strother Gibbs play quarterback for Mountain Brook. Sisson, who graduated in 2018 and is now a junior at Furman, and Gibbs, … [Read more...]
Double Trouble: Two Olivias Spark Homewood’s Volleyball Team
By Rubin E. Grant Whenever someone yells “Olivia” at a Homewood volleyball practice or during a game, two players automatically look to see who is being addressed. It can get confusing at times, but senior outside hitter Olivia Brown and senior setter Olivia Outman have learned to live with it. “We both look up, but we both just know who they’re talking to,” Outman said. “We … [Read more...]