🌱 Mountain Brook Native To Play At Golf Tournament + Traffic Projects

Hey, friends! I'm here with your fresh copy of the Mountain Brook Daily. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about what's going on locally, including updates on...

• ⛳️ A Mountain Brook golfer heading to the 2023 Master Tournament.
• 🚦 A project to improve traffic in Hoover and surrounding areas.
• 🏀 The latest from Mountain Brook sports.

But first, today's weather:

Sunshine. High: 56 Low: 38.

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Here are the top three stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. Mountain Brook graduate and golfer Gordon Sargent is headed to the 2023 Masters Tournament this April. Currently a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, last spring he was the first freshman to win the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Individual Championship since 2007. (WBRC 6)
2. The Hoover City Council has approved a $60 million project to build a new interchange near I-459, in order to improve traffic. They're hoping the development will also benefit drivers in neighboring cities and across Jefferson County. (WVTM 13)
3. Here's a recap of the latest in Spartan high school sports for both basketball and wrestling fans. The Mountain Brook wrestling team has recently won the Pelham Invitational and Maher/Garstin Battle for Independence in Tennessee, as well as finishing third at the Beachmas Brawl in Orange Beach. (Village Living)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Pickleball open play — Levite Jewish Community Center (9 a.m.)
• Whitney Mork, State Farm Ribbon Cutting — Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce (11 a.m.)
• Boys Varsity Wrestling at Regional Duals — Homewood High School (5 p.m.)
• Boys Varsity Basketball vs McAdory — Spartan Arena (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out the Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce's latest member spotlight featuring Jeremy D. Clark Studio, "a full-service design studio specializing in luxury residential, commercial, and hospitality projects from coast to coast." (Mountain Brook Chamber via Instagram)
• Up north in Decatur, an annual event celebrates the winter migration of over 14,000 Sandhill cranes from Jan. 13-15, at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. (SoulGrown • Alabama via Instagram)
• "A lot of people in Alabama, and the South, like to play up their country side a bit... It’s common to see occasional camo in Avondale and pickup trucks double-parked in Mountain Brook Village," writes Ike Morgan in the latest Down in Alabama podcast episode discussing how some Alabama towns have been reclassified by the U.S. Census Bureau as rural rather than urban. (AL.com)

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

— Dashiell Allen

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