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11/19/2025

Check out this week's info if you have a second today. Thanks.

Welcome back to Tuesday. Here are the tidbits: ✅ CONGRATS: to our friend, Ben DeGweck, on being named CEO & Chancellor at South University. 🎙️ Thanks to John Russo (Chief Underwriting Officer – Small Business) with The Hartford for joining us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. 🎙️ ...

11/15/2025

Excited to have Marissa Luna back with us tomorrow. Listen in to Truitt News Radio starting at 7am in Bham's Talk 99.5.

Marissa Luna is back with us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO again and we can’t wait for an update. 🎙️🙌 Birmingham native, former Miss University of Alabama and current Miss Nashville, Marissa is making waves in the Music City. 🌆👑🎶 I love it. ❤️ Show starts at 7AM Saturday morning on Bha...

11/11/2025

Tuesday = Tidbits. Let's go:
✅ Congrats to First Horizon Bank's newly established Huntsville Advisory Board: Bill Roark (Torch Technologies, Inc.); Bruce Summerville (Inline Electric Supply Co.); Dr. John Waples (Clearview Cancer Institute); and Frank J. Williams (Landers McLarty Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram).
🎙️ Thanks to John Armstrong (John Armstrong, Clothier; Village Sportswear) and Lauren Schwartz (Collat Jewish Family Servicesly Services) for being our guests this past weekend on TRUITT NEWS RADIO! Check it out at truittnewsradio.com
👀 HIRING: The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville is searching for a Community & Cultural Events Coordinator. Awesome job here!
📈 The Dow Jones Industrial Average went over 1,000 for the first time today in 1972.
🎙️ Looking forward to talking with Marissa Luna (aspiring country singer, current Miss Nashville) and John Russo, The Hartford's Small Business Chief Underwriting Officer this week on TRUITT NEWS RADIO. Show starts at 7am on Bham's Talk 99.5.
🎵 Sun Records released Great Balls of Fire by "The Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis, today in 1957. It sold over 1,000,000 copies in 10 days.
‼️ We are excited to welcome our newest sponsor to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this month: the Alabama Community College System Innovation Center (Skills for Success).
📅 NOV 18: Birmingham CREW luncheon at The Club.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Sesame Street is celebrating 56 years and it is getting a new launch on Netflix?
⚽ CONGRATS: to Berry College on winning the Southern Athletic Conference (SAA) Men's Soccer Championship. Our buddy, Scott Register's son Mitchell, and some other former Birmingham-Southern College players are on that team. Great story for those guys.
⚽ CONGRATS: to Coach Todd Yelton and the Samford University Women's Soccer Team on successfully defending their The Southern Conference (SoCon) Championship, picking up a big win over Mercer University.
🏀 Love to see that University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Samford University have signed on for a 3-game series starting next basketball season. This is going to be fantastic for Bham hoops.
✅ Washington joined us as state #42 today in 1889.
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🎵 One of my favorites, KISS, released their Rock And Roll Over album today in 1976. That tour for that album was my first concert.
🏈 Duke University and Coach Steve Spurrier defeated North Carolina State University today in 1989 despite NC State QB Shane Montgomery throwing an NCAA record (at that time) 73 passes in the game.
👀HIRING: Pihakis Restaurant Group is having a hiring event, November 13th, for their concepts opening in the Valley Post development that will be opening shortly.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Ocean water has a lower freezing point than fresh water?
☑️ My team at Truitt Insurance & Bonding wants to be your home & auto insurance agent. (205)254-3005. Let's do it.
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11/07/2025

Here is this week's effort.

It’s time for this week’s tidbits. Here it goes: 👀 CONGRATS: to our long-time friend Jennifer Andress on being sworn in as the new Mayor of the City of Homewood, AL. 🎙️ Loved hearing from Sarah Dylla with the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta & McKay Lyvers with Alabama 811 this past S...

11/04/2025

I was in Huntsville last week. Hard to swing through there without a stop at the Blue Plate Cafe.

10/31/2025

10/31/2025

We looking forward to talking with Alabama 811's McKay Lyvers tomorrow on Truitt News Radio.
✅Show starts at 7AM Saturday mornings on Bham's Talk 99.5.
✅Grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast if you sleep in.
✅Thanks to our fantastic show sponsors: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Stadium Trace Village, Alabama AGC, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center (Skills for Success) and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

10/31/2025

Great time up in Huntsville at the Subcontractors Association of Alabama (SubAla) Meet the GC event earlier this week.

10/30/2025

See what is happening over in Georgia with my latest TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT.

Check out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE with my new TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT – GEORGIA: 👷 Winter Construction has topped out their Student Success Center project at Clark Atlanta University. 👷 Albion General Contractors, Inc. recently celebrated the ribbon-cutting on their North Georgia...

10/28/2025

Let's get going with the Tuesday tidbits:
✅ The Birmingham Zoo has a cool, new jaguar named Diego.
🎙️ We appreciate E.J. Brophy (VP & Director or Athletics, The University of Tampa) and Elaina Burt (The Miss Jefferson County Organization 2026) being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO show this past Saturday. Check it out at truittnewsradio.com or download the podcast version.
✅ CONGRATS: to anyone who made it all the way through the Los Angeles Dodgers big 18-inning win over the Blue Jays in the World Series last night. Wow!
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Apache Indian leader Geronimo's birth name was Goyahkla (The One Who Yawns)?
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ CONGRATS: to the Mississippi College Women's Cross Country team on winning the 2025 Gulf South Conference Championship! The GSC is headquartered in Birmingham!
🎙️ We are looking forward to having McKay Ivers (Alabama 811) and Jill Nash Malool (Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts) on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend (11/1/25). Show starts at 7am on Bham's Talk 99.5 or grab the podcast version.
🏀 OCT 28, 1973: Elmore Smith set the NBA record for blocked shots in a game, rejecting 17 for his Los Angeles Lakers in their win over Portland.
📺 NOV 12: New "Being Eddie" documentary about Eddie Murphy's career debuts on Netflix.
⁉️ How 'bout Floriana Restaurant DC, based in Washington, DC, announcing Huntsville's MidCity District will be home for their 3rd location. Fantastic news!
👷 HIRING: Shelby Company General Contractors is looking to add a Financial Controller.
‼️ The entire programmatic advertising market is projected to hit $2.75 trillion by 2030.
🎵 CONGRATS to the Mobile's Red Clay Strays on being nominated for Vocal Group of the Year at the 2025 CMA Awards.
👀Abbeville, AL-based Great Southern Wood YellaWood's big new facility in Tyler, TX is nearing completion.
🍸 The Volstead Act was passed by Congress today in 1919, establishing the Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. I think organized crime may still be celebrating!
📅NOV 8: The Lower Wetumpka Shotgun Sports Club is starting back with their Neon Nights. Go do some night-shooting! Check out LWSSC.com for more info.
🏈 The Buffalo Bills were awarded a franchise in the American Football League today in 1959.
✅CONGRATS: Andrewnetta Adams on being named Homecoming Queen at The University of West Alabama.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Alabama's original capital building in Montgomery was destroyed in a fire in 1849? We have had our current capital building since it was completed in 1851.
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✅ CONGRATS: Bham's Kennedy Whisenant, Miss Alabama USA, on making the Top 10 in the Miss USA competition this weekend in Reno.
🎵 "KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park" premiered on NBC today in 1978. I was watching.
☑️ We want to be your agent at Truitt Insurance & Bonding. (205)254-3005. Business Coverage. Surety Bonds. Home & Auto. Let's do it!
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10/24/2025

Here is my Alabama Construction Report for this week. Give it a look if you have a second.

Here we go with this week’s TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT. Find out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE across Alabama (and a little beyond): 👷 Lee Builders, Inc. has started work on a new 29,800, 2-story, $16.7m Student Union Building at Calhoun Community College in Decatur. 👷 APAC-Alabama, Inc. ...

10/24/2025

Can't wait to welcome back to TRUITT NEWS RADIO one of our favorites - Elaina Burt - currently Miss Jefferson County. She is really fantastic and has a great fundraiser, Wings of Hope benefitting the Epilepsy Foundation Alabama, coming up November 1st at the Southern Museum of Flight. Tune to in to hear all she has going on.
✅Show starts at 7AM Saturday morning on Bham's Talk 99.5.
✅If you sleep in, grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast.
✅Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com.
Thanks to our show sponsors, too: Alabama AGC, Hoover's Stadium Trace Village, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

🎙️ We are excited to have one of our favorites back with us this Saturday on TRUITT NEWS RADIO! 👑 Elaina Burt, Miss Jefferson County 2026, is joining us to talk about her really great event — Wings Of Hope 🕊️ benefitting the Epilepsy Foundation Alabama 💜, happening November 1st at ...