Northport Council + Bama RB Out + Steve & DC Return

Rise and shine, Tuscaloosa! Here's everything you need to know to get this Tuesday morning started.

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

• Northport City Hall updates.
• The return of "Steve & DC"
• Bama running back out for season.

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First, today's weather: Humid with a heavy t-storm. High: 75 Low: 68.

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Patch Shoutout!

Tuesday morning's Shoutout goes to Huntington Place Elementary Principal Andrea Hamner and the seven HPES fourth graders she brought with her to speak to the Northport City Council. It gives our community hope to see schools promoting educated civic engagement for our youngest citizens, at a time when it is needed more than ever.

Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa:

1. Check out this behind-the-scenes look at the resurrection of "The Steve & DC Show" on Monday, which returned to Tuscaloosa drive-time radio after more than a decade. (95.3 The Bear)
2. A family is mourning the loss of a loved one this week after a man from Talladega County was killed in a motorcycle wreck in Tuscaloosa on Saturday during a funeral procession. (WVUA 23 News)
3. Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban informed local media Monday that running back Jase McClellan will be out for the rest of the season with an ACL injury suffered on Saturday against Ole Miss. (Cecil Hurt, Tuscaloosa News)
4. It was a night for celebration and expressing gratitude during the regular meeting of the Northport City Council Monday, which included presenting agency funding, a first look at new signage for City Hall and a new online bill pay system for the residents to pay their water bills. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
5. The University of Alabama Faculty Senate is reportedly considering new curriculum models for general education requirements, with a vote set for Oct. 19 on the two proposed models. (Tessa Worley and Mackenzie Wilson, Crimson White)

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Today in Tuscaloosa:

Druid City Pride Movie Night @ Bama Theatre (More)

Trivia @ Mellow Mushroom (More)

Studio Graduate Student Show @ Woods Hall (More)

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Patch Pick

The City of Northport has set up a temporary installation memorializing the 13 U.S. service members killed during a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26 during the military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Northport Mayor Bobby Herndon said arrangements had been made to send the wood carvings and additional cards to the families of those who lost their lives.

Other stories I'm reading today ...

• Alabama bypasses bid process to move fast on prison builds (Kim Chandler, Associated Press)
• Alabama isn't reporting school COVID outbreaks, contact tracing. Here's why. (Savannah Tryens-Fernandes, AL.com)
• Alabamians hospitalized with COVID in ICUs, on ventilators largely unvaccinated (Eddie Burkhalter, Alabama Political Reporter)
• Meet the BBJ's 2021 Who's Who in Education (Birmingham Business Journal)
• Alabama Soccer's Reyna Reyes Named SEC Offensive Player of the Week (Harrison Holland, Bama Central)
• Five-star PF Jarace Walker goes in-depth on Alabama official visit (Hank South, BamaOnline)
• Uniquely Alabama: Protective Stadium Was a Long Time Coming (Michael Seale, Birmingham Patch)

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Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to trend down for DCH Health System, with the Tuscaloosa health care provider reporting 79 total inpatients testing positive for the virus on Monday. What's worrisome, though, is the fact that 48 patients have died at DCH over the last two weeks, according to the most recent data published by the hospital system. (More)

I was kicking myself Monday afternoon for not making a return trip to Talladega Superspeedway after the race was postponed on Sunday, as I missed out on Alabama native Bubba Wallace becoming the first Black driver since the 1960s to win a NASCAR race at the historic track. Instead, I stayed focused on fandom, so check out that column here ... which was temporarily "lost" due to the social media crash on Monday. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

The Alabama men's and women's basketball teams will host the Tide Tipoff on Friday, Oct. 22, which returns for its sixth year after last year's cancellation and will be held in Foster Auditorium for the first time. (More)

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