Another great Tuesday is on us. Here are my weekly tidbits to go with it:
✅ CONGRATS: Noon Real Estate, Mayor Richard Phillips and everyone in Oneonta on the opening of the new Oneonta Marketplace Shopping Center. Great job by everyone involved.
🎙️ Thanks to Troy McCawley (President, The BOSS Company) and Jack Hausen (Exec Director, Shepherds Fold) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Go to truittinsurance.com and give it a listen or grab the podcast version (Apple, Spotify, iHeart, etc.).
📅 OCT 17 – 19: The NASCAR Playoffs are coming to Talladega Superspeedway.
👀 HIRING: Regions Bank currently has a Marketing Communications Project Manager position open in Birmingham.
🎙️ Looking forward to having Samford University Women’s Soccer Team Coach Todd Yelton and University of North Alabama Athletics Director Josh Looney join us this week on TRUITT NEWS RADIO. Show starts at 7AM Saturday mornings on Bham’s Talk 99.5.
👀Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank, who is busy entering the Alabama market right now, announced they are acquiring Dallas-based Comerica Bank, creating a $288,000,000,000 bank. Wow! Deal should be completed in 2026.
✅ CONGRATS: Bham’s CommerceOne Bank on the opening of their new branch in Mountain Brook Village.
🍕 PIZZA NEWS: Hoover’s Tortuga’s Pizza was recently named the Best Pizza in Alabama by tastingtable.com.
📽️ They are having the World Premiere of Birmingham’s Railroad Park documentary at the Lyric Theatre on October 16th. This project continues to make a massive impact in The Ham.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: LuLu’s Restaurant in Gulf Shores serves about 4,000 guests per day during the summer?
🎵 U2 played Bham’s Legion Field today in 1992.
👀 HIRING: Great guy, Keith K., and the ACCi – American Computer Consultants, Inc. team is looking for a Business Development Rep.
🍤 The Annual National Shrimp Festival starts Thursday in Gulf Shores. Check out myshrimpfest.com for more info. Head south and get shrimpin’.
👀 Today in 1763, most of what is now Alabama’s border with Florida was set by King George III at the 31st parallel.
📺 However you feel about it, Media Titan Rubert Murdoch launched Fox News TV today in 1996.
☑️ Make sure to check out DoItWithTruitt.com.
👀 Buc-ee’s, Ltd. is working on opening its northernmost location yet. They have a 74,000 sq ft store with 120 gas pumps planned for Oak Creek, Wisconsin. They are anticipating opening in early 2027.
🏈 Today is the day. The Georgia Institute of Technology, coached by John Heisman, absolutely killed poor Cumberland College 222-0 today in 1916. How is that even possible?
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: There are about 700 different species of dinosaur that are known, though not all lived at the same time.
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🛑 Thanks for the read.