🌱 Cottondale Restaurant Opens + Missing Baby In Walker County

Rise and shine, Tuscaloosa! Let's get you all caught up before you get out the door on this Tuesday morning!

In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...

• Northport City Council
• New Cottondale restaurant.
• T-Town Flag Football

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But first, today's weather: Partly sunny. High: 91 | Low: 68 ⛅️

🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Tuesday morning goes to Bama Exterminating for being named the City of Northport's Business of the Month for July.

🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. The Northport City Council on Monday approved setting aside $25,000 in revenue from the city's one-cent sales tax to go toward a new video jumbotron currently being installed at Wildcat Stadium for the Tuscaloosa County High School football program. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. The Northport City Council also approved repealing a longstanding resolution requiring a unanimous vote of the City Council to sell property used for parks and recreation. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. A new restaurant has officially opened its doors in a location previously occupied by one of Tuscaloosa's longtime culinary staples. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
4. Tuscaloosa County Park & Recreation Authority (PARA) has extended the registration deadline for the T-Town Flag Football program's fall 2023 season. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
5. West Alabama law enforcement agencies are still working to locate a missing 9-month-old girl who is believed to have been kidnapped from a residence on Crest Avenue in Parrish Monday evening. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

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🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

• Museum Fossil Excursion Day Trips (More)
• Nostalgic Blockbusters - Back To The Future And Special Appearance By A Delorean Time Machine (More)
• Business After Hours @ AC Hotel Downtown Tuscaloosa (More)

5️⃣ Other Stories I'm Reading Today

1. Inside the Alabama Baseball Gambling Scandal (Pat Forde, Sports Illustrated)
2. Pritchett-Moore Men's City Invitational Returns To Tuscaloosa (Juliet Brown, WVUA 23 News)
3. Tracking Alabama baseball players in the 2023 MLB Draft (Mikey DiLullo, Tuscaloosa News)
4. Tuscaloosa car break-in cases being investigated (Tim Reid, CBS 42 News)
5. Alabama Football Commit Julian Sayin on The Joe Gaither Show: Episode 36, July 10, 2023 (Joe Gaither, Bama Central)

🙏 Obituaries 🙏

*Our obituary section is generously sponsored by Dorroh & Mills, P.C.

Susan Rebecca (Lollar) Adkins, 64, of Brookwood (Magnolia Chapel)

Billy J. Barkley, 47, of Tuscaloosa (Memory Chapel)

Derek Morgan, 39, of Fayette (Nelson Funeral Home)

Louise Johnson, 63, of Vernon (Nelson Funeral Home)

Mary Lee Barnes of Aliceville (Northport Funeral Service)

Rosa Mae Bain, 101, of Tuscaloosa (Rockco Funeral Home)

Dorothy Hartley Matherson, 82, of Buhl (Sunset Chapel)

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You're all caught up for today! See you tomorrow morning for your next update.

— RP

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