Daily: Northport City Admin Interviews; Stillman Sending Message

Good Morning Tuscaloosa!

In today's Daily, we have even more updates from the line of severe storms that impacted the Tuscaloosa area Wednesday into this morning. While this edition may be slightly truncated by comparison, I hope you will check out my coverage from Wednesday.

First, today's weather:

Still wet. Tuscaloosa can expect a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8 a.m. The rest of the day will be mostly cloudy, with temperatures falling to around 56 by 4 p.m.

Patch Pick: Here's a photo that caught my eye from Gary Cosby Jr. of the Tuscaloosa News. The veteran photo journalist was able to get into a safe position to film one tornado as it crossed from Hale County into Tuscaloosa and captured this stunning photo.

Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa

1. Jenna Murray spoke to one man in Moundville who recounted losing his roof to a tornado that passed through parts of Tuscaloosa County Wednesday afternoon.(Tuscaloosa Thread)

2. The University of Alabama will soon offer coronavirus vaccines to essential student workers with high levels of face-to-face interaction, Meghan Schiano reports. This cohort will include teaching assistants, resident assistants, and orientation and visit staff. (Crimson White)

3. WBRC Fox 6 News provided video of damage in the town of Coaling following the first line of storms moving over west Alabama. Watch it here.

4. Alabama basketball's freshman star Joshua Primo, who has been rehabbing from a sprained left MCL, is considered doubtful for the Tide's first round matchup in the NCAA Tournament against Iona College Friday, Tony Tsoukalas reports. (BamaInsider)

5. Stillman College's men's basketball team will wear a special Black Lives Matter message on its uniforms today to honor their role as a HBCU when they court in their first-ever NAIA Men's Basketball Championship Round of 16. Read more about it here.

Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook

- The Tuscaloosa Police Department recently celebrated the retirement of K9 Roscoe — a Belgian Malinois who began working with the department in 2012. He'll turn 10 in June and will spend his retirement years living with handler Sgt. John Busby and his family. The department then introduced Bako, who is the same breed, recently turned three years old and also just finished his training.

- Interviews will resume today for the open Northport city administrator position, with the first being conducted via Zoom with Nathan Patterson, who served as interim assistant director and previously as deputy director for the City of San Diego. Tuscaloosa City Attorney Glenda Webb will round out the interviews at 6:15 p.m. Webb has worked with the city for nearly two decades and served as Tuscaloosa's city attorney since 2013.

- I have a legislative session story I have been working on for a couple of days that has been stalled by breaking news, so you can expect that, along with yet another follow up on one of the biggest stories I've been chasing this week.

While I hope today's Daily was able to get you caught up, It's my hope you stayed updated and safe through Wednesday night and into this morning. It has been a week, but hopefully for all of us it will end on a peaceful note.

I'll see you around,

- Ryan

About me: I grew up in Tuscaloosa. I'm a graduate of the University of Alabama, an experienced journalist, editor and columnist and the founder of Tuscaloosa Patch. You can find me at baseball games, public meetings, events in the local arts community and wherever live music is played!