Trust me, I know the dread that comes with the thought of studying all too well. Unfortunately, studying is essential for academic success and there are five ways to make it a little less dreadful. Let’s have a look. One: Believe Studying is Camp Camp: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical....

Coming up on October 30th, Wendy Hassinger and Caroll Cahill from Our Lady of the Valley School and Church are hosting the 2nd annual Hero Run. This Oak Mountain community event will take place at Heardmont Park beginning with a chip-timed 5k at 8:00 A.M. and 1-mile fun run at 8:45 A.M. Participants...

With summer just around the corner, it’s time to enjoy off time with friends and family, and for some, live it up before starting a new chapter called college. Luckily, there are many things to enjoy in Birmingham during the approaching summer and here they are.    Visit the Market at...

Starting on May 3, OMHS will begin AP exams. The exams will occur over a three week period with the majority given in the first two weeks. Students in AP classes have a date and time assigned to take their exam. All exams will start at either 8:00 a.m. or at noon. The vast majority of exams will be held...

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Chills. Shortness of breath. Body Aches. Loss of senses. All of these symptoms are well known to our generation, and have been stamped within the past year as token side effects of COVID-19. As an innumerable amount of Americans test positive for the Coronavirus, a small fraction of these victims test...

The OMHS boys' basketball team took home the win in the 7A finals on Tuesday, March 3 against Enterprise High School. The game was played at Bartow Arena on the UAB campus. A socially distanced crowd watched as OMHS closed out the game with a win as they topped Enterprise 41-37. With less than five...

The OMHS boys basketball team is headed to the 7A state championship game today at 4:30 P.M. The game will be played at UAB's Bartow Arena. They will compete against Enterprise High School for the championship. On the road to the championship, the team has defeated Hoover High School and Auburn High...

When reviewing data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA scientists recognized a planet similar to Earth, Kepler-1649c. It was discovered to be 300 light years away for Earth. It is about 1.06 times the size of Earth making it very similar, mass wise, to Earth. It's sun is a red dwarf which...

On January 27, the world remembers the sorrow of the Holocaust in which millions of Jews were murdered along with those with disabilites, homosexuals, suspected communists, and non-Aryans in Nazi Germany during World War Two. Jews were primarily targeted. They were blamed by Nazi Germany for the economic...