Homewood Life

02/07/2025

The City of Homewood's Fourth of July festival, Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church Homewood, AL's Trash or Treasures sale and more return to Homewood this month.

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30/06/2025

Where's your favorite place to get coffee in Homewood? Featuring answers in

05/06/2025

Thomas Andrew Art's Kids' Art Camps, West Homewood Company and Farmer's Market, Alabama Outdoors' June festival and more debut in Homewood this month.

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27/05/2025

🟢⚫️ JOHN CARROLL GRADUATION ⚫️🟢

On Sunday, May 25, the John Carroll Catholic High School Class of 2025 tossed their caps in the air, cheering as they celebrated completing their high school milestone. Take a look at some of our favorite shots:

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📸: Kelsea Schafer Photos

22/05/2025

🎉🎓 METRO GRADUATION 🎓🎉

Produced by our parent company, Shelby County Newsmedia, Inc., the inaugural issue of Metro Graduation featured Homewood High School and John Carroll Catholic High School, including touching letters from principals Dr. Joel Henneke and Ronald Steele. HHS senior Ruby Reeves and JCCHS senior Nathaniel Rohling were also featured!

Those interested in receiving a copy can call our office at 205-669-3131 for more details.

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Click the link below and swipe to page 10 to read Homewood's feature and Ruby's story, or swipe to page 18 to read John Carroll's feature and Nathaniel's story:

https://issuu.com/shelbycountyreporter/docs/metro_graduation_2025

18/05/2025

Earlier this evening, hundreds of community members packed shoulder-to-shoulder in the Pete Hanna Center at Samford University, eager to see the class of 2025 accomplish a huge milestone, graduation. Take a look at some of our favorite shots from Homewood High School's commencement ceremony:

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📸: Anna Grace Moore

14/05/2025

🇺🇸HOMEWOOD LIFE'S SUMMER ISSUE🇺🇸

You might have noticed a familiar face gracing the cover of our new, summer issue, soon-to-be Homewood High School graduate EB Levering! EB is one of the most decorated student-athletes in Homewood's history, not only winning the Class 6A cross country championships back-to-back, but also recently being named the Gatorade Alabama Cross Country Player of the Year for the second year in a row.

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📸: Kelsea Schafer Photos

Read her story, along with several other inspiring tales from The Dance Foundation's 50th anniversary to Katdadde Inc.'s founding. Red Pearl, True40 Studio, Lauren Murphy Design and of course, the results of our annual Best of the Best contest are featured, too. Let us know which your favorite story was or who we should feature next! Email [email protected] for story submissions.

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14/05/2025

⛳️ GOLD ON THE GREEN ⛳️

Please join us in congratulating the Homewood High School boys golf team for winning the Class 6A golf championship in back-to-back years!

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Four golfers finished under par at the tournament: Alex Wahl (-5), Jack Lowery (-4), Kaman Rouse (-3) and Andrew Woods (-2). Way to go, Patriots!

13/05/2025

Please join us in thanking Allie Grace Broadhead, daughter of Homewood Fire Chief Brandon Broadhead, for her advocacy in su***de prevention and mental health support!

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📸: City of Homewood

Allie Grace’s volunteer efforts were recently recognized at a Homewood City Council meeting, where the Council officially offered a proclamation, honoring the month of May as “Mental Health Awareness Month” henceforth.

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06/05/2025

Homewood's Best of 2025 have been announced after you voted. Did your favorites win? See all of the winners in the story below:

02/05/2025

☔️ WE LOVE HOMEWOOD DAY UPDATE ☔️

Due to inclement weather tomorrow, We Love Homewood Day’s annual festival has been rescheduled to Sunday, May 4 from 1-5 p.m. at Homewood Central Park.

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Homewood Parks & Recreation Superintendent Rusty Holley announced in a update email that the We Love Homewood Day 5K and Street Dancing in Edgewood will proceed as planned tomorrow, weather permitting. Homewood Parks will update the public by noon tomorrow on these events’ happenings. Follow us to stay in the loop on all things Homewood. Stay safe tomorrow, everyone!