By Emily WilliamsThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama on Jan. 10 made its largest donation ever – for $1,050,000 – to the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB for breast cancer research in Alabama. The check was presented at a luncheon at The Club, where the foundation also announced recipients of its 2019 Pilot Grant Awards.“It’s huge for UAB … [Read more...]

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...]

By Sam Prickett Over the holidays, roughly 6,500 Alabama households received a notice in the mail that their medical debts had been purchased and forgiven by the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. Those letters were the culmination of a fundraising campaign undertaken by Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church in Mountain Brook, which commemorated its 70th anniversary by eliminating $8.1 … [Read more...]

By Ingrid Schnader When planning the groundbreaking for Red Mountain Theatre Company’s new $25 million Arts Campus, Executive Director Keith Cromwell said he wanted to be theatrical. “We don’t want to have a shovel,” he said at the Dec. 11 groundbreaking ceremony. “We want to have a couple of tractors. We’re going to have a little demo of a demolition.” As two tractors … [Read more...]

By Ingrid SchnaderA gift shop selling items such as home decor, accessories and candles opened in Brookwood Village in October, just in time for the holiday season. The Cottage of Serendipity owners Cynthia and Mitch Elmore were longtime residents of Homewood who now live in Hoover, so moving their storefront from Pelham to Brookwood Village was a perfect … [Read more...]