🌱 UA Mask Mandate + Football Scores + Northport Council Updates

Happy Saturday, Tuscaloosa! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started off right.

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

• High school football scores.
• Northport Council updates.
• Gordo woman arrested for scam.

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First, today's weather: Low clouds, breezy and cool. High: 61 | Low: 49

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Here are the top 5 stories in Tuscaloosa today:

1. The University of Alabama will roll back on its campus mask mandate for fully-vaccinated individuals beginning Nov. 5. (Ainsley Platt, Crimson White)
2. The Northport City Council on Monday will consider $50,000 in improvements to playground equipment at the Robert Hasson Community Center's park, along with selecting the contractor for design work on the highly-anticipated Charlie Shirley Road resurfacing project. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. A Gordo woman has been arrested and charged in connection to a federal stimulus check scam, authorities announced on Friday. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
4. A Woodstock man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday morning on Bibb County Road 24, roughly three miles east of West Blocton. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
5. The owner of Rolf's Deli and Sausages in Northport has partnered with another entrepreneur to open a new pretzel shop in Tuscaloosa. (Tessa Worley, Tuscaloosa Thread)

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Other stories I'm reading today ...

• Uniquely Alabama: Pro Football Courting Birmingham Again (Michael Seale, Birmingham Patch)
• Senate committee approves redistricting bills, $80 million to hospitals and nursing homes (Eddie Burkhalter, Alabama Political Reporter)
• What Nick Saban said about Evan Neal, Drew Sanders' injury (Mike Rodak, AL.com)
• 10 states sue Biden administration over COVID vaccine rule (Associated Press)
• 6 anti-vaccine mandate bills filed in Senate; futures in House doubtful (Mary Sell, Alabama Daily News)

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Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook

Here's a look a high school football scores for the final week of the regular season across west Alabama. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

As part of its observance of Veterans Day, Tuscaloosa County officials will also hold a special memorial event to honor the lives of the 13 United States service members killed in an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan in August. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

Veo and the University of Alabama this week announced a new partnership that will see the company place 300 Cosmo E Bikes on campus, which will be available for use by students, faculty, staff and campus visitors. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

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Have a great weekend!

— RP

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