🌱 Birmingham Homes Parade + MBHS Student Could Be Player Of The Week

Hello again, neighbors! Happy Columbus Day. It's Monday in Mountain Brook and I'm back in your inbox with everything that's fit to print about what's happening in our community, including news on...

• 🏠 The Greater Birmingham Parade of Homes
• 📚 Work completed at the O'Neal Library
• 🏈 Mountain Brook football player a contender for player of the week

But first, today's weather:

Nice with plenty of sunshine. High: 78 Low: 49.

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Here are the top three stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. The Greater Birmingham Parade of Homes is returning for two weekends in October. Organized by the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders, it will show off the latest residential builds in the area, in the hopes of encouraging potential buyers to move forward, despite market challenges. (Village Living)
2. Alabama appears to be the state with one of the highest rates of 'straight ticket voting'–when voters fill out their entire ballot for candidates of a single party or affiliation–in the U.S. Nearly 65.2 percent of Alabama voters voted straight-ticket in the 2018 midterms, according to Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill. (AL.com)
3. Construction is finished and the adult reference desk is back open at the O'Neal Library, after roughly a month of work. (O'Neal Library via Instagram)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Football JV Home vs Parker - Junior Varsity (6 p.m.)
• City Council - City of Mountain Brook (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Mountain Brook's Cole Gamble is up for consideration as high school football player of the week in the Hollis Wright Birmingham area. Voting ends on Wednesday. (AL.com)
• Check out these 5 new properties on the market in Mountain Brook. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• Mountain Brook Fire Department: "A Huge thank you to this awesome lady, Jane Hauth! For years “The Cake Lady”, along with Cooks On A Mission, has been bringing all three of our fire stations and shifts delicious baked goods." (Mountain Brook Fire Department via Facebook)

Thanks for following along and staying informed. I'll see you soon!

— Dashiell Allen

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