🌱 Could Alabama Eliminate Grocery Tax? + MB Police Join Troops Salute

Hello, everybody. I'm back in your inbox this morning to walk you through all the most important things happening these days in Mountain Brook. Here we go...

First, today's weather:

A p.m. t-storm in spots. High: 89 Low: 76.

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Here are the top three stories in Mountain Brook today:

1. A former Jefferson County deputy was arrested on charges of impersonating a police officer and hindering an investigation. She was found by officers on Tuesday, in a car driving with Kenny Austin, a drug suspect. The deputy, Somer Ross, had resigned last summer after her 11-month-year-old daughter was killed. (WVTM 13)
2. Inflation over the past year is leading many Alabama civic and nonprofit leaders to once again consider eliminating the state's 4 percent sales tax on groceries. First they have to find a way to do so without taking away revenue from the state's schools, which receive a large amount of the roughly $500 million in grocery taxes generated annually. (AL.com)
3. Authorities are investigating the death of a 23-year-old man found at the 4500 block of Sixth Avenue South – close to Mountain Brook – on Friday afternoon. Over the past year there have been 77 homicides in Birmingham and 100 in Jefferson County. (AL.com)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Monday Matinees - Levite Jewish Community Center (1:30 p.m.)
• Dungeons & Dragons at O'Neal Library (2 p.m.)
• City Council - City of Mountain Brook (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out these four houses on the market around Mountain Brook. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• Mountain Brook Police reported a car wreck that briefly closed down the 300 block of Overbrook Road on Friday. (Twitter)
• The Mountain Brook Police Department Honor Guard Unit was invited to join a “Salute to Service” at the Birmingham Legion FC game on Saturday evening. (Mountain Brook Police Department via Facebook)

Alrighty, you're all good for today. I'll see you soon!

— Dashiell Allen

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