The Story of Generational Firefighter Heathe Watkins
Story and Photos by Janie Shelswell-White There is a cottage on Beech Street, built...
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Trés Taylor: Alabama Folk Artist in a Revolution of Joy
By Cara D. Clark Photos by Cara D. Clark and Marc Bondarenko Trés Taylor is a revolutionary...
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Kari Kampakis Gives Insight On Connecting With Her Teenage Daughters
By Kari Kampakis My oldest daughter Ella is a high school senior set to graduate this...
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Tequila, Tacos, and a Life Well Lived
Katherine Cobbs delivers a new cookbook Story by Lee Hurley and photos by Becky Luigart-Stayner...
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The Story Behind One of the Nation’s First Eagle Scouts
By Walden Knott Photos by Janie Shelswell White My Scouting journey began by tagging...
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Collectibles: A View Into The Past
Photos by Brit Huckabay ...
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‘Tis The Season Of Lights
Enjoy some of our favorite Christmas Lights seen in Mountain Brook
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Our Favorite Local Holiday Gifts This Season
By Barry Wise Smith Photos by Brit Huckabay We’re excited to share with you some of our...
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Will the Circle be Unbroken
Dr. John Young, an orthopedic surgeon at Precision Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, is not at all the man I expected to meet when I agreed to write about him for Portico. Self-effacing and quick to spread the credit for his success around to his wife, his parents, his sisters and brothers, his colleagues, and his staff, he seems more like a priest than a surgeon.
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Ten Things I Learned: Don Cafaro
Ten things I learned from Don Cafaro, Mountain Brook Senior Arborist
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Homewood Boys Varsity Soccer wins Metro Tournament
The Homewood High School Boys Varsity Soccer team defeated Hoover High School (ranked #1 in 7A) to win the Metro Tournament. Senior Matthew Henderson scored a goal late in the second half to send the 1-1 game into overtime
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Ketcham & Company
With more than a decade of renovation experience under their belts and dozens of projects to their name, Jama and Geoffrey Ketcham got their start after successfully flipping a Homewood property in 2006.
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Dreams So Real
I’m in an undisclosed location (Sorry: No narcs) listening to six dudes who aren’t supposed to be in a rock band being the best rock band in the world—well, at least in a 30-mile radius—at 5 pm on a dreary football Sunday in January.
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In Her Own Words: Laruen Steele
Lauren Steele is a Mississippi girl and licensed attorney who moved to Homewood when her husband, Dr. David Steele, came to UAB to complete a fellowship. Lauren started her blog, LC-Steele, in law school as a way to face her frustration with social media. Today, she has almost 200,000 Instagram (lc_steele) followers and devoted blog readers.
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If you love something, set it free …
Everyone knows that old saying. Let go of the thing you love. If it’s meant to be yours, it will eventually come back to you. Advice well-heeded in the case of old high school boyfriends and the baby squirrel my brothers once tried to make into a household pet. Advice that is much harder to bear, however, when it comes to the thing we love above all else: our children.
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