Let’s hit another Tuesdays with Tony and see what is happening out there:

✅ The Alabama Coastal Foundation has now passed 30,000,000 oyster shells collected in their Oyster Shell Recycling program. Amazing!

🎙️ Thanks to Michael Price (Economic Development Director, City of Albertville) and Janie Mayer (Founder, Witches Ride Homewood) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend.

🎙️Tune in to our July 4th TRUITT NEWS RADIO extravaganza this Saturday on Bham’s Talk 99.5FM. We start at 7AM!

👀 HIRING: Great opportunity here – Trailborn Hotels & Resorts – is looking for a Social Media & Partnerships Manager at their office in New York. Very cool, growing brand you are going to continue hearing more about.

🏀 Larry Bird’s last high school game saw him score 54 points, grab 38 rebounds and hand-out 8 assists in a big win for the Springs Valley Blackhawks.

🎵 TRUITT NEWS RADIO alum Will Mason and the Mason Music team are gearing up for their Fall 2026 Rock Band League for ages 10 – 18. Get your musicians registered now and get rockin’!

👷 Bham’s Doster Construction Company celebrated the ribbon-cutting for the new Laredo Medical Center Buena Vista ER project in Laredo, TX.

✅ CONGRATS: our friends Krista Conlin Robinson, MBA and Lindsey Neal on being named to the Birmingham Business Journal‘s Women to Watch for 2026.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: I-65 runs for 887 miles starting in Mobile and running to Gary, Indiana?

✔️ KFC is rolling out a cool, new look with their “Open House” concept in McKinney, TX.

✅ Love the new America250 street mural in downtown Irondale, AL.

🧇 The folks in Hickory, NC are happier now that Waffle House, Inc. recently opened Unit 2571 there.

🎥 AUG 24 – 30: Sidewalk Film Festival in downtown Bham.

📅 AUG 22: The 46th Annual Hope Gala benefitting the American Cancer Society.

🥯 Einstein Bros Bagels is growing, aiming to add more than 300 stores to its lineup by 2030.

🏌‍♀️ NOV 2nd: The Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders Golf Tournament | Riverchase Country Club.

👀 HIRING: University of Mobile is seeking a Digital Designer & Web Specialist.

👀 HIRING: Centreville Main Street is looking for a new Executive Director.

🏒 HIRING: The Nashville Predators are hiring an Event Specialist to help producing, managing and executing events.

🏃 NOV 21: KultureCity Birmingham Half-Marathon & 5K | Powell Steam Plant

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

👷 Alabama AGC‘s Bham Section meeting is August 10th at the AGC Office.

☑️ Call me up for your HOME & AUTO INSURANCE, BUSINESS COVERAGE, and SURETY BONDS | 205-254-3005 | tony@truittinsurance.com | Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc.

✅ TRUITT WORLD HQ is closed Thursday & Friday for America’s 250! Have a fantastic 4th.

👷 The 75-ft tall Waterway Village Pedestrian Bridge in Gulf Shores continues making progress with plans to place the bridge in September.

🛑 Thanks for the read.