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Botanical Gardens announce Spring Plant Sale

Posted on March 9, 2009 | 2 comments

If you’re looking for a way to unwind after you file that income tax return on April 15 (and based on last year’s site visits for the day, a lot of you will), then you’ll love the fact that the Birmingham Botanical Gardens has just announced that the annual Spring Plant Sale will be starting on April 16 starting with a special preview party that evening.

The event will go through April 19 and is the largest in the state of Alabama with more than 85,000 plants for sale. Last year’s sale raised more than $200,000 for education programs.

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Glen Iris residents want your help

Posted on March 9, 2009 | 2 comments

We just got an email asking for residents to show up at tomorrow’s City Council meeting to show support for residents of the city’s Glen Iris neighborhood. For more than a year they’ve been working to stop development of 107 apartments planned for the eastern side of George Ward Park on the former Knights of Columbus Property. Among other things, the park holds a 24-hole disc golf course.

They will attempt to convince the council tomorrow to initiate a Sector Plan Study of the portion of the Glen Iris Neighborhood that includes the property in question to determine the appropriate zoning. They’re also hoping for a moratorium on building while that sector plan study is being conducted.

The email contains all of the pertinent details.

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Free thinking in Birmingham

Posted on March 9, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Screenshot of FreeThinkBham

A new addition to the Birmingham blogosphere, FreeThinkBham says that it’s “Birmingham’s guide to progressive action and info.”

The blog was launched last month and appears to be working towards being a one stop shop for information those that lean to the political left in The Magic City can turn to complete with a calendar of events.

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Ken Owens, architect & preservationist, dies

Posted on March 9, 2009 | Leave a comment

Ken Owens , a co-founder of Birmingham’s first African-American owned architecture firm and an advocate for preservation in the city, died on Saturday. He was 69 years old.

According to the account published on The Birmingham News‘ blog, Owens had been battling cancer for the last two years. The former Blach’s building and the former Fire Station #4 (where his offices were located) were among the numerous projects that he and his business partner, Franklin Woods were responsible for throughout the city and Alabama.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 13, 2009, at Sixth Avenue Baptist Church.

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Birmingham’s OK, but…

Posted on March 9, 2009 | Leave a comment

That’s the message that city officials probably heard when they learned that The Birmingham Fund had lost $10 million in the last six months. The sobering  news may provide support to the Birmingham City Council‘s plans to not pledge money to support projects recently presented by Mayor Langford, including several that have been presented to council twice in recent weeks, though according to reports the account is still outperforming the benchmarks set for it.

The council’s current approach will face a challenge if Senator Shelby is successful in getting more monies appropriated for a mass transit solution here in metro Birmingham. The current $100 million will be forfeited soon – for several reasons. It will also face some challenges if stimulus monies are received for projects.

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We turn 2 on Saturday!

Posted on March 9, 2009 | 4 comments

No, it’s not necessarily big news, but it’s news nonetheless. What are we going to do to celebrate? I have no idea. We’d like your feedback to help figure that out. If anyone has an idea about where they’d want to meetup to celebrate our second anniversary, add your suggestion to the comments section.

While I’m at it, I’d also like to remind you that we’re still taking submissions for our Be Birmingham photo contest until Thursday afternoon, March 12, at 5 p.m. I’ll be blunt and say that I was hoping to see more entries reflective of actual places and people in Birmingham, but there’s still time to see if those types of entries will come in.

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Random Shots: What a difference a week makes

Posted on March 8, 2009 | Leave a comment

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As Birmingham wakes up to the start of Daylight Savings Time and hints at temperatures getting close to 80°, we thought we’d share a few images from last week’s snowfall.

Bob Farley headed out to Ruffner Mountain Nature Center shortly after the 3″ had finished accumulating, giving us this photo set over in The Gallery.

Enjoy!

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