By Emily Williams-Robertshaw In a typical year, Spring is the season when Amy Howe of Better Basics and her coworkers would be working on one of their largest undertakings of the year. The annual Birmingham Reads events. “This is when we recruit and place a volunteer in every Birmingham City School that we serve in pre-K through fifth grade classrooms,” Howe said. It … [Read more...]
Murphy’s Law: For Crying Out Loud
By Sue Murphy I don’t want you to worry about me. I’m as lucid as I ever was. OK, maybe that’s not all that reassuring, but I’m telling you this in case you should see me talking to myself, which I seem to do now with some regularity. I was ticking off items on my to-do list a few weeks back when I realized that I was saying each task out loud. Later that day, I caught myself … [Read more...]
‘Game Changer’: Plummer Was a Difference-Maker for Hoover’s Girls Track Team
By Rubin E. Grant Chakiya Plummer won only one gold medal when Hoover captured the AHSAA Class 7A girls outdoor track and field championship last month. And it came as a part of the Lady Bucs’ first-place 4x400 relay team win. But probably no one had as a big of an impact on the team as Plummer. As an eighth grader on the varsity, Plummer won the 300-meter hurdles, helping … [Read more...]
Striking Change: Indian Springs’ Nabors Excels After Switching Positions, Leads Boys Soccer Team to a State Championship
By Rubin E. Grant Indian Springs boys soccer coach Rik Tozzi considers junior forward Jackson Nabors his surrogate son. That’s because Nabors has grown up with Tozzi’s son Nathan, a junior midfielder, and the two are like brothers. Tozzi also is good friends with Nabors’ parents, especially his dad, Jason Nabors. Their close relationship is why Tozzi went to the Nabors and … [Read more...]
‘Gratifying’: Hoover Baseball Title Quest Falls Short, but Coach Moseley Still Proud of Team’s Accomplishments
By Rubin E. Grant Hoover baseball coach Adam Moseley sounded more upbeat than disappointed a few days after the Bucs’ quest for the AHSAA Class 7A title ended with a one-run loss in the deciding third game. The Bucs had scored twice and had the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the seventh inning, but Auburn reliever Ryan Olson struck out Hoover’s Cade Carr to preserve … [Read more...]