By Emily Williams For the 15th consecutive year, Homewood High School boasts the largest marching band in the state of Alabama.  According to the band’s assistant director, Chris Cooper, 375 students make up the roster for this year’s marching band. That number accounts for about one-third of the student body.  Though it isn’t the most Homewood has had marching – … [Read more...]

By Emily Williams Hoover City Schools’ new career training school is set to open next month with almost twice as many students as originally expected. The Riverchase Career Connection Center has enrolled approximately 750 students so far and has a waiting list, according to Ron Dodson, director of the new school. “Our goal, which I was told by the state we would never reach, … [Read more...]

Dads from throughout the Hoover City Schools system will spend July 27 lending a helping hand to the school facilities. The fourth-annual Hoover City Dad Brigade will have men from throughout the community and a number of high school students spruce up the campuses in preparation for the 2019-2020 school year.  Groups will then break off to finish projects identified by … [Read more...]

By Emily Williams Having kept it a secret since August, Crestline Elementary School’s Principal Laurie King let loose the news to faculty and staff on April 1 that she would be retiring at the end of the school year. For the past 35 years, Laurie King has called Crestline home, working her way up from a teacher to a principal. “I’ve been here for so long and change is hard, … [Read more...]

By Ingrid HowardA Homewood teacher found out earlier this month that she had received a grant from the Homewood City Schools Foundation of $1,066.02 to make her fifth-grade students feel like NASA engineers. Using the grant, Lora Haghighi and other fifth-grade teachers at Edgewood Elementary School will be able to afford the materials that students will use to … [Read more...]