It’s the last Tuesday before 2026. Let’s hit it with the year-end kudos, events and tidbits.

✅ Get ready for 2026 with the Birmingham Zoo and their Zoo Year’s Eve 2025 celebration. They are having a special Cougar Countdown at 2pm & 6pm so you can celebrate and get to bed early, too.

✅ OR you can head to the Alabama Coast to celebrate January 1st with the Flora-Bama Lounge & Oyster Bar‘s Polar Bear Dip at 3pm or hit The Hangout‘s Polar Bear Dip in Gulf Shores at noon.

🎙️ Check out this past weekend’s TRUITT NEWS RADIO Show at truittnewsradio.com.

👀 HIRING: Bham’s Sloss Furnaces is adding an Events Coordinator to their team.

🎵Elvis played the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC) last night in 1976 for the only time.

🏈 CONGRATS: to Mark Meadows and his team on another year of success with the JLab Birmingham Bowl yesterday. We had a lot of fun watching Georgia Southern University earn the great-looking trophy.

🏀 Give it up for high-scoring, Gadsden City guard (and University of Alabama at Birmingham signee) Jakobi Sharp on dropping 41 against Montgomery’s Carver High School recently.

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✅ The City of Pensacola Government is getting ready for a redo of Palofax Street from Garden to Main downtown. Businesses are open but the street is going to be closed January 5th – May 24th, but it is going to be awesome when it reopens.

📅 FEB 17-22: MJ The Musical at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC) Concert Hall.

✅ The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department 10 Cybertrucks to their fleet. That’s kinda cool.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: President Chester A. Arthur was famous for his extravagant fashion sense?

🏈 DEC 30, 1978: Woody Hayes was fired as the head football coach at The Ohio State University after punching a Clemson University player on the sideline.

🏒 JAN 3: The Birmingham Bulls are taking on the Huntsville Havoc at the Pelham Civic Complex.

✅ CONGRATS: Brick & Tin on getting their new location in Huntsville open in the emerging Lewter District.

👀 HIRING: Mountain High Outfitters is looking to add a new Store Manager for their Foley, AL location.

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🏈 JAN 31: Panini Senior Bowl, Hancock Whitney Stadium, Mobile, AL.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: They like to wear Polka-Dots in the Philippines to celebrate the New Year?

✅ CONGRATS: to Dr. Greg Bacon on being named to the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science‘s Board of Directors. Great story as he is a school alum.

✅ CONGRATS: Bham’s Samford University on celebrating the school’s 184th anniversary this week!

👀 HIRING: Belmont University is looking to add a Director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships to their team in Nashville.

🛑 Thanks for the read. Happy New Year everybody!