Mumford and Sons + UAH Hockey

Up and at ‘em, Huntsville! In today’s Daily, we will look at what happened with the first game for the Trash Pandas, what a member of Mumford and Sons was doing in Huntsville, and what happened to UAH's hockey team.

First, today’s weather:
Today will be sunny with a chance of storms later in the evening. High: 72 Low: 47

Here are the top five stories in Huntsville today:

1. After all of the fundraising done last year to stop the men’s hockey team at UAH, the school announced yesterday that the team had operations suspended. The team has not secured an invitation to any conferences. Should they get an invitation, operations will be reinstated but the team won’t be eligible for conference play for at least a year after they get invited. (USCHO)
2. Mayor Battle had lunch with Ben Lovett, a founding member of Mumford and Sons, and Huntsville Venue Group President Ryan Murphy yesterday. Murphy and Lovett are working with Huntsville to build an 8,000-seat amphitheater at MidCity that is set to open in 2022. (City of Huntsville)
3. Darren Pullen was charged with the bomb threat calls made to Williams Elementary and Middle and Grissom High School. The sheriff’s office teamed up with the North Alabama FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force and the North Alabama Safe Streets Task Force to find Pullen to make sure there was no threat to the schools. (WAAY)
4. Students at Alabama A&M teamed up with Straight to Ale for the past two years. They have created a beer that will be unveiled along with its can art on May 20. It will be on shelves on May 24 and some of the proceeds will go to Alabama A&M’s programs. (WHNT)
5. Nine witnesses were called by the defense in the trial of Officer William Darby before it rested its case Tuesday. Darby was asked to walk the court through the body cam footage when he took the stand Wednesday. Closing arguments will be made today. (WAAY)

Today in Huntsville

• LinkedIn: 10 Tips and Tricks for Small Business Marketing- Join the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber for another virtual workshop in their professional development series. (11 a.m.)
• High School Level Physics and Math Tutoring @ the Downtown Huntsville Library (4 p.m.)
• Opera on the Mountain: Learning Through the Arts @ Burritt on the Mountain (10 a.m.)
• The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will be at Earlyworks today! (10 p.m.)

Huntsville Patch Notebook

• David MacKinnon made the first hit in Rocket City Trash Panda history yesterday.
• Madison County Schools Chief Financial Officer Karen O’Bannon received the 2021 Robert L. Morton Award from the Alabama Association of School Business Officials.
• Yesterday marked 60 years since the Mercury Redstone Rocket (made in Huntsville) took the first manned space flight in the U.S. (Details)
• Restoration Financial celebrated 7 years in Business yesterday!
• The Trash Pandas lost their first game to the Chattanooga Lookouts 6-1.
• This is the last week of Huntsville Botanical Garden’s Spring Plant Sale! (Details)

You're caught up for today, but don't forget to come catch up with me in your inbox in the morning!

-Amy