By Rubin E. Grant Tucker Smith changed fishing buddies, but he didn’t change fortunes. With his former fishing partner Grayson Morris now on the bass fishing team at Montevallo, Smith teamed with fellow Briarwood Christian mate Hayden Marbut to win the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School National Championship presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors. The tournament … [Read more...]
Planning Ahead: Mountain Brook City Schools Approves $74 Million in Capital Improvements
By Emily Williams More than a year after residents of Mountain Brook voted in favor of a 10-mill tax increase, Mountain Brook City Schools is starting to see the result. The tax hike was projected to raise an additional $6 million a year for the school system’s budget. In October, the school system began receiving those funds and already has put them to work, announcing … [Read more...]
‘Team Effort’ : Determined Spartans Ascend to Volleyball Throne Again
By Rubin E. GrantThe Mountain Brook volleyball team took it as a slight.Even though the Spartans won the 2019 Class 7A state championship with a school-record 59 victories and moved down a classification this year, few gave them a chance of capturing the Class 6A crown.The low expectations weren’t a surprise, considering Mountain Brook won its 2019 title with a … [Read more...]
Murphy’s Law: The Good Old US of A
By Sue Murphy I had a double snake encounter last week and, as I get ready for Halloween, that’s as scared as I want to get. My knee-jerk reaction was to put a For Sale sign in my front yard and start looking for an antiseptic condo, and I might have done it, too, except that, later that day, I looked down to find a large brown insect calmly making his way onto … [Read more...]
Distinguished Service: Col. Channon Among Honorees for Military Service During Hoover’s Veteran’s Week
By Rubin E. Grant Col. Bob Channon, U.S. Army retired, has been asked many times whether he fought in World War II. Channon, 95, is old enough to be a member of what some American historians call the “Greatest Generation,” even though he didn’t get the chance to fight in “The Big One.” “He would have loved to have gone to the war, but he was still at West Point,” said Lyn … [Read more...]