🌱 Overbrook Road Flooding + Mountain Brook Police Community Meetings

Welcome back, Mountain Brook! It's Thursday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in Mountain Brook today.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and warm. High: 86 Low: 66.

Here are the top three stories today in Mountain Brook:

1. A City Council meeting on Tuesday night include md a discussion on the issue of flooding on Overbrook Road. Some residents and stakeholders raised concerns that potential solutions could merely push the problem further downstream, to areas that haven't experienced flooding in the past, such as near the Canterbury United Methodist Church. (Village Living)
2. The AHSAA State Golf Championship concluded on Tuesday with Mountain Brook boys winning their 11th – and fifth straight – with the 6A title. Complete statistics can be found here. (AL.com)
3. Mountain Brook Police hosted the first of several community meetings to discuss the most common crimes they are seeing around town–namely car and identity theft. The next meeting is today at 5:30 p.m. at the Cherokee Bend Elementary School cafeteria. (WBRC)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Pickleball open play (6 - 8 p.m.)
• MBJH Beginning Band Concert at Mountain Brook High School (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out this photo of Little River Falls from This Is Alabama. (Instagram)
• A bench outside of City Hall honors Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Suzan Doidge. (Twitter)
• Five students at University of Alabama at Birmingham have been selected for the prestigious Fulbright US Student Program. One of the five, Simona Shirley, "an international studies major and native of Mountain Brook," will be an English teaching assistant in Spain. (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

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You're all caught up for today. I'll see you soon!

— Dashiell Allen

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