The Homewood Star
Volume 6 | Issue 12 | March 2017
Ready for a Run
neighborly news & entertainment for Homewood
Edgewood’s
newest neighbors
Following the pleasant surprise that was their 2016 season, the Patriots are aiming once again to “play in May.”
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Determined Dancer
Edgewood resident Mandy Ray stands in front of Edgewood Station, the future home of her Three15 exercise studio. Photo by Sydney Cromwell. At just 10 years old, Hannah French already has performed in a lead role with professional ballerinas many years her senior.
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Edgewood Station tenants prepare to move in as renovations ramp up By SYDNEY CROMWELL
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dgewood residents are about to have three new neighbors. In January and February, Michael Murray of Shannon Waltchack Commercial Realty announced the tenants of Edgewood Station, the service garage redeveloped into a retail development at
Julian Kersh first started playing soccer as a member of the Patriot program in the Homewood Soccer Club. Here, he speaks to members of the high school team before a game Feb. 13. Photo by Sarah Finnegan.
1017 Oxmoor Road: Mason Dixon Bakery & Bistro, Three15 Studio and BarTaco, the 5,000-square-foot anchor tenant. Shannon Waltchack acquired the service garage from the Pettus family in February 2016, but Murray said discussions over buying and repurposing that building extend
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Taylor and Ashley Ramirez of Mason Dixon Bakery & Bistro. Photo courtesy of Mason Dixon Bakery & Bistro.
Soccer club scoring generations of players By LEXI COON Participating in sports as a kid has a way of shaping a child’s life and sticking with them, even through to adulthood. Sometimes, those same sports can bring them back as coaches, too. Sean McBride, a coach for the
Homewood Soccer Club and Homewood High School, has decades of experience both on and off the field. “Growing up in Scotland, [soccer] is all the kids did,” he said. “You started
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