Through weekly deliveries to three Vestavia Hills City Schools, Ascension Episcopal Church meets the needs of approximately 41 students facing food insecurity on weekends. On Fridays, nutritious, prepackaged foods are discreetly placed into the backpacks of students who receive free or reduced-cost lunches by school counselors. Ascension volunteers currently … [Read more...]
Oyster like me now?
By Chad McCowanIs it me or is there a culinary resurgence of the maligned oyster, a delicacy today shipped from all parts of the cold northern waters to a fine dinner table in our restaurant savvy town. With all due respect to Dusty’s of Panama City, where the Apalachicola’s are shucked by the billion and are entirely wonderful, fancy me a dozen of the smaller Prince … [Read more...]
Legendary: Mountain Brook City Manager Sam Gaston announces his retirement
Growing up in Russellville, Alabama, the son of a Baptist minister, Sam Gaston knew he wanted to do something in service to people. “I didn’t hear the scripture call,” Gaston says, “but I knew I wanted to serve in some way.”Now almost 32 years after coming to Mountain Brook as the city’s longest serving City Manager, Gaston has done just that. At the beginning of the year, … [Read more...]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
My mother had a quilted saying framed on her wall while I was growing up. It said: “Ye know it takes a mighty good man to be better than none.” I wasn’t 100 percent sure what all that implied, but I figured it meant I had better at least put the toilet seat down. Maury Wald is a mighty good man who has raised his child called Over the Mountain Journal from its birth … [Read more...]
Mountain Brook Dominates 2024 Spartan Invitational
By Loyd McIntoshFive Mountain Brook High School wrestlers advanced to the finals in the 2024 Merril Lynch Spartan Invitational Tournament held at Mountain Brook High School, on Friday, Dec. 13, and Saturday, Dec. 14. Bobby Rutkoff and Bill Bradford captured first place, and Stephen Springfield, Christopher Brown and Beckett Smith finished in second place to lead … [Read more...]