🌱 Boys & Girls Clubs In Northport + New UA Honors College Dean

Rise and shine, Tuscaloosa! Grab the coffee and get all caught up with us before you start this Tuesday morning.

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

• Boys & Girls Club in Northport.
• Business, civic leader dies.
• Bryant student honored.

But first, today's weather: Mostly sunny and warmer. High: 79 | Low: 47 ☀️

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Tuesday morning goes to the two newest transfers into the Alabama women's basketball program: Del'Janae Williams (left) from Indiana State and Jessica Timmons from North Carolina State.

🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. Longtime publishing executive and involved Tuscaloosa civic leader Guy Edward “Buddy” Moman, Jr. died on Friday. He was 81. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. The Boys & Girls Clubs of West Alabama will soon have a hub in Northport for the first time in nearly three decades. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. The University of Alabama on Monday honored the lives of three students who recently passed away, including a Brookwood native and Marine combat veteran who took his own life last year. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
4. WOW 2.0 held at Shelton State Community College resulted in 610 contingent job offers given out to high school seniors from eight counties out of the nine-county west Alabama region. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
5. The University of Alabama on Monday announced Tiffany Sippial as the next dean of the UA Honors College. She comes to the Capstone from Auburn, where she served as director of the Honors College for five years. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

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Today in Tuscaloosa:

• The West Alabama Leadership Prayer Breakfast (More)
• Tuscaloosa Community Knitting & Crochet Group (More)
• Lynn Cullen Book Signing & Talk (More)

🙏 In Memory 🙏

A balloon release was held Monday at Bryant High School in memory of student Madison Sims, who was killed in a Saturday morning crash along with Samuel Brown of Uniontown. The crash occurred in the hours after they had attended the school's prom.

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5️⃣ Other Stories I'm Reading Today

1. Help Holt Heal Focusing On Community's Improvement (Giselle Hood, WVUA 23 News)
2. Alabama’s Bryce Young cancels remaining visits ahead of NFL Draft, per report (Mark Heim, AL.com)
3. Jalen Hurts signs $255 million contract extension with Eagles (WBRC Fox 6 News)
4. Political leaders react to mass shooting at Dadeville birthday party (Jacob Holmes, Alabama Political Reporter)
5. Alabama tight end Elijah Brown enters the transfer portal (James Benedetto, Tide Illustrated)

🙏 Obituaries 🙏

Albert Earmon Darden, 72, of Gordo (Rockco Funeral Home)

Gary Sellers, 66, of Cottondale (Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel)

Latrelle Nalls of Tuscaloosa (Van Hoose & Steele)

Mary A. Brown, 89, of Tuscaloosa (Wills' Funeral Service)

You're all caught up for today. I'll see you around!

— Rp

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