Excited for another round of tidbits? It’s Tuesday, so here we go:

✅ CONGRATS: the City of Wetumpka, Alabama and all the folks there on the opening of the new Guthrie’s Chicken today. Great addition.

🎙️ Thanks so much to Blas Escarcega (Chief Development Officer, Bonchon) and Eric Rowell and Destiny Rowell (Founders, Grit + Grind COFFEE) as our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Check out all the great guest interviews at TruittNewsRadio.com.

🏀 The National Basketball Association (NBA) Europe is launching in the 2027-2028 season and is expected to have 16 teams across 11 major European cities.

✅ CONGRATS: Skip Powe and the Alabama Road Builders Association on being recognized with Alabama Section of the Institute for Transportation Engineers (ALSITE) Transportation Safety Award at ALSITE’s Annual Meeting held recently in Gulf Shores.

🎙️ Looking forward to welcoming David Upton and Steve Upton with CraneWorks to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend. Show starts at 7AM every Saturday morning on Bham’s Talk 99.5.

✅ CONGRATS: Montgomery, AL on selling out 2 shows for comedian Leanne Morgan’s upcoming shows in July, it looks like a 3rd will sell out, and they have just added a 4th show.

✅ CONGRATS: New Miss Alabama Ruby Tilgman and, also, to TRUITT NEWS RADIO alums Elaina Burt and Hannah Adams on making great showings in the competition.

📅 JUNE 16-18: J.M. Wood Auction Company Inc.‘s equipment auction in Montgomery. Check out jmwood.com for info.

👷 Hasting Sykes & the Sykes Weaver General Contractors team is building a new Southern Energy Credit Union on Mt. Olive Road in Gardendale.

✔️ The Ford F-Series is still the best-selling truck in the U.S. for the 49th straight year.

☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.com for more great reports & info.

🏈 JULY 20 – 23: Southeastern Conference Media Days in Florida

✅ CONGRATS: Poarch Creek Indians Tribal Chair & CEO, Stephanie Bryan, on being awarded an honorary doctorate by the Daphne, AL-based United States Sports University.

📅 JULY 24 & 25: The City Of Lincoln, Alabama‘s 2026 Pro Rodeo at Lincoln Landing. All 8 pro rodeo events on both nights. Going to be a great event.

📈 TODAY in 1986, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record 1,885.90. It closed at 50,786.01 yesterday.

✔️ Taiwan has opened the world’s longest single-mast bridge, the 3,000 ft long Danjiang Bridge over the Tamsui River.

📅 AUG 27 – 29: The Alabama Elvis Festival is going to be at the Daphne Civic Center.

☑️ My want to be your insurance agent. Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. Send me your home & auto, business coverage and surety bonds. tony@truittinsurance.com. We will get you set up.

👷 Bham’s Hoar Construction has started work on the Southern College of Optometry‘s pediatric clinic in Memphis.

✅ CONGRATS: to the City of Andalusia as ground has been broken on their first Chick-fil-A Restaurants location. Big win for everybody there!

🛑 Thanks for the read.