🌱 Mountain Brook Football This Week + Amphitheater Funding

Good morning, neighbors. It's me, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Mountain Brook Daily — back in your inbox with all the most important things happening locally. Including news about:

• New funding for a massive amphitheater in Birmingham.
• Mountain Brook High School's upcoming football game.
• A Vestavia Hills graduate posed as a college student.

But first, today's weather:

Beautiful with clouds and sun. High: 76 Low: 52.

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Here are the top three stories in Mountain Brook today:

1. The Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Board of Directors has approved $5 million in funding to build a new amphitheater with 8,500 seats. The entire project is projected to cost $50 million. (WVTM 13)
2. On Friday evening, Mountain Brook will face Pinson Valley in high school football in one of the five games to watch in the first week of the Alabama High School Athletics Association's playoffs. (AL.com)
3. According to media reports, a 2021 graduate of Vestavia Hills High School posed as a Stanford University college student for 10 months, while living in the campus's dorms and harassing female students. (AL.com)

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Today in Mountain Brook:

• Circle of Friends Breakfast Social — Mountain Brook High School (7:30 a.m.)
• Flu and COVID-19 booster vaccine clinic — Levite Jewish Community Center (3 p.m.)
• Bare Hands, Inc.’s Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead Festival) Número 20 (4 p.m.)
• Trivia Night at Greenwise — Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out this real estate roundup for the Mountain Brook area. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• Vulcan Performance Rehabilitation and Recovery recently visited the Mountain Brook YMCA to give free injury assessments for members. (Mountain Brook YMCA via Facebook)
• The latest episode of Village Living's podcast Under the Lights is out now, explaining recent developments in high school football. (Village Living via Facebook)

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

— Dashiell Allen

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