🌱 Mountain Brook Population Drops + HS Student Vanished 17 Years Ago

Hello again, everybody. It's Tuesday in Mountain Brook and I'm back in your inbox to get you caught up on all the most important things happening in our community today. Let's do this...

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and warm. High: 90 Low: 69.

Here are the top three stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. Natalee Holloway vanished 17 years ago Monday in Aruba, after graduating from Mountain Brook High School. A former suspect in her disappearance is currently serving a prison sentence for the murder of a woman in Peru. (WVTM13 Birmingham)
2. CBS News Sportscaster Jim Nantz gifted his tie to Coe Murdock in 2013. Nine years later, Murdock wore it to his Mountain Brook High School graduation. The two have been in contact the whole time. Nantz has made a habit of giving away his ties – in fact you can even buy a tie named after him in support of Alzheimer's research. (Golfweek)
3. Mountain Brook's population dropped by an estimated 251 people between 2020 and 2021. During that period, Alabama experienced the first time in recorded history that deaths outpaced births. (AL.com)

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Today in Mountain Brook:

• Mindful Walk & Yoga in the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (8:30 a.m.)
• Trivia Night at Publix GreenWise Market, Mountain Brook (6:30 p.m.)
• Starbucks & Story: Let Us Write Your Life-Story as a Book Over Coffee (all day)

From my notebook:

• All of these adorable cats and dogs (and rabbits 🐇) are up for adoption in the Mountain Brook area. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• The Lakeview Hullabaloo music festival will be taking place Saturday, June 4 at Slice Pizza and Moe’s Original BBQ. (Village Living)

Thanks for following along and staying informed. I'll see you around!

— Dashiell Allen

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