It’s Tuesday and time for this week’s quick-hitters:

✅ HIRING: The Economic Development Association of Alabama is looking for a new Executive Director.

🎵 Bham’s St. Paul & The Broken Bones have a new album coming out October 10th and are having release parties at Seasick Records (Bham, Oct 7), 10,000HZ Records (Opelika, Oct 8), Vertical House Records (Huntsville, Oct 9), Grimey’s (Nashville, Oct 10) and Criminal Records (Atlanta, Oct 13).

⚾ Congrats to the Birmingham Barons on winning the Southern League Championship!

🎙️ Thanks to Misty Skolnick (Co-Owner, Uncle Jerry’s Pretzels) and Kimbery Gregson (team that discovered & classified 32,000,000-year-old sea turtle fossil in South Alabama) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past Saturday (9/27/25).

👀 SEPTEMBER 30, 1993: Mercedes-Benz announced they had selected Vance, AL as the site of their first U.S. manufacturing plant. Massive day in the state’s economic development history.

🎙️ We are looking forward to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend (10/4/25) when Troy McCawley (The BOSS Company) and Jack Hausen (Shepherd’s Fold) join us. Show starts at 7AM Saturday morning on Bham’s Talk 99.5.

✅ CONGRATS: Leeland Ventures LLC on recently completing The Shoppes at Lindsay Lane in booming Athens, AL. Get in touch with them if you need some great space.

👀 SEPTEMBER 30, 1893: The University of Alabama began admitting women students.

🎵 OCT 12: Cheap Trick is playing the Oxford Performing Arts Center in Oxford, AL.

✔️ CONGRATS: Jack’s Family Restaurants, LP has their new place open in Belmont, MS. Crawford Square Real Estate Advisors was involved in making that deal happen.

☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com!

✅ HIRING: Dan Starnes & his Starnes Media team in Homewood (280 Living, Vestavia Voice, Hoover Sun, The Homewood Star, etc.) are looking for a Managing Editor and a Market Manager.

✔️ CONGRATS: to Bham’s CommerceOne Bank on opening their new corporate office space in downtown’s John Hand Building.

📅 NOV 14 & NOV 15: The US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, Blue Angels are having their Homecoming Air Show in Pensacola.

👀 STAT: Tony Gwynn, who was just an incredibly consistent hitter with the San Diego Padres, also played basketball for San Diego State University. I saw where he had more assists at SDSU (590) than strikeouts in his 20-year MBL career (434). Amazing!

🏈 NBC televised the first college football game seen on TV today in 1939 when Fordham University knocked off Waynesburg University. People apparently wanted to see more.

✅ Remember us at Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. for your home & auto insurance.

📺 The Flintstones premiered today in 1960.

✔️ CONGRATS: to TRUITT NEWS RADIO alum Myles Morgan, the fast-rising country music artist on just being announced to open for Blake Shelton at Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater in Tuscaloosa Oct 17th.

🛑 Thanks for the read.