🌱 Stan Pate Series + Queen City Avenue Shooting + CrossingPoints

Get on up, Tuscaloosa! Grab the coffee and get this Saturday morning started with us!

First, today's weather: Partly sunny and not as warm. High: 72 | Low: 54 🌤

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Saturday morning goes to the Alabama baseball team for its win Friday night at Baum-Walker Stadium, 12-1, over sixth-ranked Arkansas. (More)

5️⃣ Other Stories I'm Reading Today

1. Here's the first installment of our profile series about controversial Tuscaloosa developer Stan Pate. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. A Demopolis man was killed Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Alabama Highway 60, roughly five miles east of Sawyerville in Hale County. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. The University of Alabama's CrossingPoints Program once again brought smiles and laughter to the community with its performance of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" for its annual dinner theater production at the Bryant Conference Center.(Tuscaloosa Patch)
4. The Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit has arrested a Tuscaloosa man in connection with a fatal shooting Thursday night on Queen City Avenue that left one person dead. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
5. Don't miss this look at the colorful new mural on Main Avenue in Northport by local artist Banks Compton. (Tamika Alexander, WVUA 23 News)

Alrighty, you're all good for today! I'll see you soon.

— RP

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