🌱 Free Alabama Symphony Orchestra Concert + Birmingham Shootings

Hello, everybody! Dashiell Allen here with your fresh copy of the Mountain Brook Daily, filled with all the community news you need to know right now.Keep scrolling for the scoop.

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A t-storm around in the p.m.. High: 85 Low: 69.

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Here are the top three stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. The Musicians of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra is presenting two free community concerts this month. The first one took place last week at Canterbury United Methodist Church in Mountain Brook, but if you missed it there's still time to catch the second at Greater Emmanuel Temple Holiness Church, in Birmingham, on September 18 at 3 p.m. Participants are encouraged to donate to the nonprofit's One Place Family Justice Center and Scrollworks Music School. (Over The Mountain Journal)
2. The State of Alabama is in need of paid poll workers for the general elections in November, who will staff over 1,000 polling locations. Workers must be registered to vote in the county they're serving in. Students 16 and older can serve as poll worker interns with a school recommendation. (AL.com)
3. Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond called a wave of shootings over Labor Day weekend in the area "unacceptable" in a Tuesday press conference. The violence, from Friday through Monday, took seven people's lives. Since August 31 the city has launched a new program called "Operation Silent Night," aimed at reducing violent crime. (WVTM 13)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Lunch & Learn: Facilitating Curb Appeal with Yard Art (11:30 a.m.)
• Trivia Night at Greenwise - Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce (6:30 p.m.)
• Homecoming Dance (MB Gym) - Mountain Brook High School (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• It's Homecoming Week at Mountain Brook High School! Later today there will be a homecoming dance in Spartan Arena. There will be a parade in Crestline Village on Friday. (Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce via Facebook)
• The Birmingham Zoo's elephants don't want you to be "irrelephant." 🐘 (Twitter)
• Crestline Elementary School is celebrating Spirit Night on Thursday, with 15 percent off at the Eastwood Village Chick-fil-A. (Facebook)

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Thanks for following along and staying informed! I'll catch up with you bright and early tomorrow with a new update.

— Dashiell Allen

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