By Sarah Kuper Brought together by business and then brought closer by friendship, Sam Yates and Rob Ozols have formed a company that may help change the way Alabamians power their lives. With backgrounds in engineering and law, Yates and Ozols are using skills from previous careers to pursue a passion for user-friendly energy sources. Yates and Ozols founded Vulcan Solar … [Read more...]
Sharing the Way: Second Annual Homeschoolers Fair Highlights Growing Community
By Sarah KuperThis past Valentine's Day, a group of educators organized one of the largest Valentine exchanges in the state. The party was thrown by Birmingham Homeschoolers and it was an opportunity for area home school families to get together, have fun and be creative. Kristy Trent is the coordinator for Birmingham Homeschoolers. She home-schools her four children … [Read more...]
OTM Rental Homes: in High Demand Influx of Medical Professionals and Downsizing Baby Boomers Leads to Competitive Rental Market
By Sarah KuperOn March 18, hundreds of medical students across the nation will find out where they will spend the next few years training as resident physicians. It's called Match Day, and until noon on that day, these trainees have no certainty about where they will live come June 1. After the envelope is opened, medical students will start internet searches and pour … [Read more...]
Knight School: Former Teacher Turns Chess Club Into a Weekly Chess Party
By Rae Patterson David Brooks is widely known in the Over the Mountain community as “Coach Brooks,” founder and head of the chess academy called The Knight School. The Knight School has won more than 20 state championships, and it is all because of Brooks’ revolutionary fun approach to chess. Brooks has parlayed his method of teaching chess using puzzles and other fun … [Read more...]
Historically Inclined: Vestavia Hills’ Anne Boston Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
By Emily Williams Anne Boston lives and breathes Vestavia Hills, and she has the ink-filled calendar to prove it. On March 3, the community will recognize her devotion by presenting her with Leadership Vestavia Hills’ 2016 Lifetime Achievement award. “I certainly didn’t expect it,” Boston said. “When they called me to tell me, I was just taken aback because, frankly, I … [Read more...]