🌱 Trendon Watford's NBA Season + Mountain Brook Track Champions

Morning, friends! I'm here right on time with your Tuesday edition of the Mountain Brook Patch newsletter, full of all the local information you need to know right now. In today's newsletter, you'll learn about these stories and more:

• The five NBA players entering the postseason playoffs — and Mountain Brook's Trendon Watford.
• A Mountain Brook track and field win.
• The police are participating in a DEA take back day.

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Here are the top four stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. Five players with roots in Alabama are eligible to play in the NBA's postseason playoffs, including JaMychal Green from St. Jude, Alabama, on the Golden State Warriors, and Davion Mitchell from Auburn on the Sacramento Kings. Trendon Watford, who played for the Mountain Brook High School basketball team and is now with the Portland Trailblazers, "averaged 7.4 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 62 games, with 12 starts." (AL.com)
2. Mountain Brook's track and field's first ever "coed 4x100" team came back as champions on the first day of the Farragut Invitational over the weekend, with "four races and four gold medals." (MBHS Track via Twitter)
3. Check out how Otey's Tavern in Crestline Village was planning to transform itself ahead of the professional golf championship tournament, the Masters. (Bham Now)
4. Birmingham City Schools is holding a hiring event on Thursday at G.W. Carver High School. Potential candidates could receive offers on-the-spot from school administrators. (CBS 42)

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Today in Mountain Brook:

• Ladybird Taco Ribbon Cutting — Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce (9:30 a.m.)
• Tai Chi — Levite Jewish Community Center (12:15 p.m.)
• Boys Varsity Baseball at Homewood — Mountain Brook High School (5:30 p.m.)
• Girls Varsity Soccer vs Chelsea High School — Mountain Brook High School (6 p.m.)
• Boys Varsity Soccer at Vestavia HS — Mountain Brook High School (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Marcy Gray, Magpie and Magellan are just a few of the pets up for adoption at shelters in the Mountain Brook area. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• The Mountain Brook Police Department is participating in the Drug Enforcement Administration's National Take Back on April 22. They will be "taking back old and expired prescription or over the counter medications." (Mountain Brook Police Department via Facebook)
• Check out the latest "Good News update" from Mountain Brook Schools. (Mountain Brook Schools via Facebook)

That's it for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Dashiell Allen

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