🌱 MB Boys' Basketball Championship Game + Spartan Grad Works On Film

Hello all. It's me, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Mountain Brook Patch newsletter — here to impart everything that's fit to print about what's happening in town these days. Including news on...

• A Mountain Brook grad who worked on a horror film
• Birmingham Water Works
• The boys' basketball state championship game

But first, today's weather: Mostly sunny. High: 67 Low: 44.

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Here are the top three stories in Mountain Brook today:

1. Sarah Mouyal, a graduate of Mountain Brook High School, was the artistic director for the 2022 horror film "The Menu," which was filmed in Savannah, Georgia. Mouyal gave Bham Now a look inside the creative process. "This film is really unique. When I read the script, I just had a feeling about it, it was different. The whole concept of the mad chef and kind of making jabs at foodies and food-obsessed people was so funny," she said. (Bham Now)
2. The Birmingham Water Works utility said that the area's drinking water is safe, following multiple lawsuits filed in November against chemical companies it says may have contaminated the water supply with cancer-causing chemicals. (WBRC)
3. State agencies are forming a task force to determine what regulatory or legal changes should be made to prevent future fires like the one at the Moody landfill, which brought smoke all the way to Mountain Brook. (AL.com)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Ladies of the Fire Present Their Encaustic Work — Maralyn Wilson Studio (11 a.m.)
• Boys JV Soccer at SS Gadsden HS — Sylacauga HS (12:45 p.m.)
• JV Baseball Home vs Homewood (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Here's photos from Town & Country Clothes' 80 year anniversary ribbon cutting in Crestline. (Mountain Brook Chamber via Instagram)
• The Mountain Brook Spartans will face Buckhorn High School tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. in the 6A Boys Basketball State Championship Game. (City of Mountain Brook via Facebook)
• A producer for the sci-fi film "The Shift," which is being filmed in Birmingham, said his time in town has been "magical." (WVTM 13)

Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Saturday! I'll see you soon.

— Dashiell Allen

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