Mountain Brook senior wrestler Jack Abenoja was named the 2025 Class 6A Scholar-Athlete winner during the 40th annual Bryant-Jordan Student Athlete Awards Banquet on April 14. Abenoja also received the Dr. Gaylon McCollough Medical Scholarship. Vestavia Hills senior basketball player Jack Cobb was a regional winner and awarded one of the two Auburn Football Lettermen … [Read more...]
Secret Garden: Miss Sims Garden is a hidden gem in the Edgewood neighborhood
By Barry Wise Smith Photos by Jordan Wald and courtesy of Miss Sims GardenTucked away on a quiet street in Edgewood is a garden that harkens back to another time. Native flowers and plants flourish in the shade of mature hardwood trees while charming paths meander throughout.Before Miss Sims Garden was, well, Miss Sims Garden, it was simply the private … [Read more...]
On the Road To Find Out: One Family’s Search for Meaning, Connection and Adventure
In 2013, Vestavia’s Dale and Kellie McIntyre along with daughters Delaney (14) and Riley (12), uprooted their comfortable and content lives for a five-month do-it-yourself journey around the world. Friends and family questioned their reasoning. Others wondered about the wisdom of withdrawing their daughters from Liberty Park Middle School. And yet Dale and … [Read more...]
Taking the Road More Traveled: For Writer and Photographer Jenny Adams, the World Is Her Office
By Brent Thompson Photography by Jenny AdamsJenny Adams is a Mountain Brook native who lives in New Orleans…but that’s hardly the whole story. A dizzying path has taken the renowned freelance writer and photographer from her hometown to a city roughly 350 miles down the road. “I went to College of Charleston, and I stayed there for a year after … [Read more...]
A Different Path: Mountain Brook’s Liv Heaps prefers lacrosse to soccer, her family’s sport of choice
Liv Heaps decided not to follow her family’s sports tradition. Her dad Jay Heaps played soccer collegiately and professionally, coached professionally and currently is the president and general manager of the Birmingham Legion FC professional soccer team.Her older brother Jack was a star soccer player at Mountain Brook—leading the Spartans to the 2022 Class 6A state … [Read more...]