Community Corner
🌱 Warrior River Shipwreck + West End Shooting + TPD Grant
The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Tuscaloosa.
Good Morning, friends! Grab the coffee and get this morning started with everything you need to know going on around T-Town.
In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...
- Black Warrior River history.
- Multiple victims in West End shooting.
- PARA's newest employees.
First, today's weather: Mostly sunny and warm. High: 88 | Low: 62. ☀️
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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣
Our Shout Out for this Tuesday morning goes to Tuscaloosa Academy Class of 2022 Valedictorian Carson Scott Claytor. The school's graduation ceremony is set for May 19.
🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞
- Here's a piece — rather a couple pieces — of lost Tuscaloosa history that only recently came to the surface following a long lost shipwreck on the Black Warrior River. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
- Investigators say multiple victims were injured in a Monday night shooting at Hay Court Apartments in Tuscaloosa's West End. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
- Don't miss this feel-good story about the newest employees of Tuscaloosa County Park & Recreation Authority, as part of a partnership with United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama. (Chelsea Barton, WVUA 23 News)
- Check out this well-written story focusing on how a personal tragedy and high expectations turned Alabama baseball's Zane Denton from a childhood prodigy into a college star. (Austin Hannon, Crimson White)
- The Tuscaloosa Police Department is jockeying for a $750,000 federal grant to fund a new multitrack program aimed at addressing what it refers to as "targeted violence" in the community. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
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🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓
- Put Alabama To Work @ Shelton State Community College (More)
- Business After Hours @ Kentuck Art Center (More)
🏆 Winner of the Day 🏆
Our big winner today is Northridge High School senior Rashni Walker, who won several individual state championships at the state track and field meet last weekend, while the Northridge High girls track team finished second overall in AHSAA Class 6A.
✏️ Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook ✏️
Alabama baseball (26-22, 10-14 SEC) is set to kick off a four-game road stint Tuesday at Jacksonville State as the Tide closes out its 2022 regular season. (More)
The Tuscaloosa County School System will host two interest meetings Tuesday evening for those interested in becoming bus drivers. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
Alabama softball (41-10, 16-8 SEC) received a No. 2 overall seed and first-round bye for the SEC Softball Tournament in Gainesville, Florida. Here's what you need to know. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
Alabama men's track and field team is ranked No. 2 in one national poll heading into the postseason. (More)
5️⃣ Other stories I'm reading today
- Casey White: 'Wife' Vicky White fatally 'shot herself in the head' in police chase (Carol Robinson, AL.com)
- Former Bama Running Back Suiting Up for Birmingham Stallions (Mason Woods, Tide 100.9)
- Transgender treatment, doctors threatened by new Alabama law (Kim Chandler, Associated Press)
- Warrior Met Coal benefits as met coal prices jump (AJ O'Leary, Birmingham Business Journal)
- Alabama's 2022 opponents at a glance: Auburn Tigers (Charlie Potter, BamaOnline)
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You're all caught up for today. See you all tomorrow for another update!
— RP
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