Census Day is April 1, and Homewood City Councilor Jennifer Andress is turning it into a friendly competition among four Over the Mountain cities. In 2010, the census response rates for OTM cities were 74% for Homewood, 78% for Hoover, 84% for Mountain Brook and 81% for Vestavia Hills. Andress wants to see those rates rise. The form takes only 10 minutes to complete, … [Read more...]
2019 All-Over the Mountain High School Football Team: Barker Puts up Manziel-Like Numbers to Earn Offensive Player of the Year
By Rubin E. Grant Before the start of the 2019 high school football season, Spain Park offensive coordinator Marty Rozell had a message for senior quarterback Harrison Barker and his teammates. “Our offensive coach told us it was going to be a Johnny Manziel type of season with us throwing a lot because we had a young offensive line,” Barker said. Manziel won the 2012 … [Read more...]
2019 All-Over the Mountain High School Football Team: Spartans’ Griffin Overcomes Toe Injury to Earn Top Defensive Honor
By Rubin E. Grant Clark Griffin’s senior football season almost was over before it began. A week before Mountain Brook’s 2019 season kicked off, Griffin was diagnosed with a turf toe, with tendon and ligament damage. The senior linebacker had three options. He could have surgery, which would have sidelined him for the entire season; be injected with blood plasma and miss the … [Read more...]
‘It Was Ugly’: Weary Spartans Turn Back Bucs, Now Step Into Area Play
By Rubin E. Grant Mountain Brook senior swingman Colby Jones had to think for a moment while trying to remember when the Spartans last played a basketball game at Spartan Arena. “It’s been a minute,” Jones said before recalling the opponent, Sidney Lanier of Montgomery.Mountain Brook routed Sidney Lanier 73-46 on Dec. 14 at Spartan Arena, then spent the rest of … [Read more...]
Murphy’s Law: I Am Not A Robot
By Sue Murphy Fact: To become a friend of the library in the small New England town where my parents grew up, I had to prove that I was not a robot. Fact #2: I didn’t make it. I had no idea that robot library patronage was such a problem. Are there covert bands of robots plotting to take over the craft fair? Would the silent auction be reduced to complete silence? Is there a … [Read more...]