🌱 Mountain Brook Student Donates Softball Gear + Fire In Birmingham

Hello again, friends. It's Friday in Mountain Brook and I'm back in your inbox with everything that's fit to print about what's happening in town. In today's newsletter, you'll read about these stories and more...

• A Mountain Brook student helps provide gear to a middle school softball team.
• A large fire in Birmingham.
• The 2023 Twilight Ball.

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Here are the top three stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. Annie Gregory, a sophomore from Mountain Brook, joined another high school student from Hewitt-Trussville, Makaila Hope, to donate, with their own savings, lots of softball gear to Hayes Middle School's team. That includes fresh gloves, bats and much more. (6 WBRC)
2. The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill that would make it a felony to help another person fill out an absentee ballot in most instances, instead that person is a family member or certain election officials. The bill passed on partisan lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats against it, and now heads to the Senate. (AL.com)
3. Birmingham firefighters fought a massive blaze at Birmingham Recycling and Recovery on Wednesday evening, all the way through Thursday morning. (6 WBRC)

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Today in Mountain Brook:

• Hanging with the Big League Conference (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
• Boys Varsity Baseball vs 3rd Round of AHSAA Playoffs — TBA (12 p.m.)
• Tails in the Trails — Birmingham Zoo (6 p.m.)
• MBHS Theatre Banquet (FAC) — Mountain Brook High School (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce celebrated the small business Marguerite's Conceits' 30th birthday with a ribbon cutting last week. (Mountain Brook Chamber via Instagram)
• Happy Star Wars Day (May 4) from the O'Neal Library! (The O'Neal Library via Facebook)
• Here's the Mountain Brook sophomores who were presented at the 2023 Twilight Ball at the Country Club of Birmingham. (Village Living)

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