It is time for this week’s tidbits, kudos & events.
✅ The great-looking, new City of Helena, Alabama City Hall is completed and they are moving in later this week. The current City Hall is closing Wednesday, April 1st, at noon. The new City Hall will be open Monday, April 6th, and ready for business.
🎙️ Thanks to Michael Giardina (Festa Italiana Birmingham) and Chad Emerson (Chattanooga Football Club) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past week. Check out truittnewsradio.com for interviews.
✅ CONGRATS: WJOX 94.5 sportscaster Damian Mitchell on winning $32,000 on Wheel of Fortune.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Chattanooga is where the first tow truck was invented?
🎙️ We are looking forward to welcoming Will Mason (Mason Music) to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend (April 4th). Show starts at 7AM on Bham’s Talk 99.5.
⚽ APRIL 12: Birmingham Legion FC is hosting Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC at Protective Stadium.
🥹 I am truly sad to see our old friend, Joe Palmer, has passed away. Joe was our longtime DJ at our BOO Halloween Party. Great guy.
🏒 APRIL 3 & 4: The Birmingham Bulls are taking on the Knoxville Ice Bears in Knoxville.
🏀 The Oklahoma City Thunder will have a new $900m arena open in downtown OKC in 2028.
✅ Looks like Huey’s Sandwiches (the trailer outside Seeds Coffee in West Homewood) is getting ready to open.
☑️ If you need a new home & auto insurance agent, try us out at Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. (205)254-3005. We would love to help.
🏀 CONGRATS: Troy University on announcing their new basketball coach, Adam Howard.
👀 HIRING: Fravert is growing fast and looking for help. They need a Senior Installer and an Install Technician for their team.
👀HIRING: Terrific New Theatre is looking for a Production Coordinator to join them. Submit your resume to Executive Director (and TRUITT NEWS RADIO alum) Tamara DeBolt – tam@terrificnewtheatre.com.
👀 HIRING: The Savannah Bananas are recruiting “teammates” to help work local events as the Banana Ball World Tour is heading to 75 stadiums across 45 states. Get in touch to get experience with producing large scale events.
📅 APRIL 22: Economic Development friends – Auburn University‘s next GEDI-EDAA Leadership Institute Program from 10am – 4pm.
👷 Stone Building Company has topped out the new Saban Center project in Tuscaloosa. Great job!
☑️ Make sure to check out DoItWithTruitt.com for more great reports & info.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up around 14,000 wild horses across the West in 2026 to better manage their growing population? Interesting!
📅 APRIL 1: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is hosting a watch party for the Artemis II Launch. Doors open at 4:30pm. Launch scheduled no earlier than 5:24pm. This is such a great idea!
✅ CONGRATS: Bham’s StoneRiver Company on the acquisition of the Retreat at Greystone multi-family community located down the Hwy 280 corridor.
🛑 Thanks for the read.