🌱 TSO Conductor For A Day + New Northside Baseball Coach

Get on up, T-Town! Let's get this Wednesday morning started.

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Here's today's weather: Cloudy with a t-storm or two. High: 82 | Low: 67 ⛈

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out this morning goes to the good folks from Jefferson County Emergency Management, Bibb County EMA and Greene County EMA for volunteering their time to help officials in Tuscaloosa County with damage assessments this week.

🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. Northside High School on Monday announced that Tuscaloosa County School System educator Justin Thompson has been hired as the Rams' new head baseball coach. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. The Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra this week announced its one-item silent auction, which will provide participants the chance to conduct the TSO during a performance of "America the Beautiful" at the 4th of July Celebration on the River concert. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. The Fosters-Ralph Water Authority is requesting that its 3,000 customers conserve water as storm cleanup continues in the area. (Bryan Henry, WBRC Fox 6 News)
4. More details have become available regarding why the University of Alabama baseball program fired former head coach Brad Bohannon (Nick Kelly, Tuscaloosa News)
5. The Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Nathaniel Ledbetter on Tuesday appointed two Tuscaloosa lawmakers to the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

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📸 Around T-Town 📸

A good time was had by all at the Juneteenth Community Celebration at PARA's Palmore Park this weekend, with roughly 900 people in attendance.

🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

• Bingo @ Copper Top (More)
• Defiant Jazz with Alley, Kozak, and Hill @ Druid City Brewing Co. (More)
• Wine Wednesday @ Pyros Fire Fresh Pizza (More)
• Roger Day @ Tuscaloosa Public Library (More)

5️⃣ Other Stories I'm Reading Today

1. Which Alabama schools have students at risk of missing reading benchmark, redoing third grade? (Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com)
2. Alabama sheriffs say end of concealed carry permit requirements cost them funding (Ralph Chapoco, Alabama Reflector)
3. New-To-Market Scooter's Coffee Opening This Summer In Tuscaloosa (Stephen Dethrage, Tuscaloosa Thread)
4. Mock draft roundup: Where Alabama basketball stars are projected to land (Tony Tsoukalas, Tide Illustrated)
5. Five Alabama freshmen who could make instant impacts in 2023 (Charlie Potter, BamaOnline)

🙏 Obituaries 🙏

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

James "Jimmy" W. Gray, 80, of Tuscaloosa (Memory Chapel)

Susan L. Emley, 67 of Northport (Nelson Funeral Home)

Stephen Hugh Roberts, 71, of Tuscaloosa (Northport Funeral Service)

Elizabeth Breland Martin, 86, of Centreville (Rockco Funeral Home)

Gregory Young, 70, of Tuscaloosa (Sunset Chapel)

Shirley Shell Lemons, 82, of Buhl (Sunset Chapel)

Jimmy Harold Weathers, Jr., 64, of Lake View (Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel)

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

— RP

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