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10/14/2025

One. Great. Party.
Bring it on for another year of the BOO Halloween Party.

Greetings, Witches, Ghouls, & Ghost! The BOO Halloween Party has an exciting announcement for you all to sink your fangs into!

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW THROUGH EVENTBRITE!

That's Right Pre-sale tickets are now live!

MOST IMPORTANTLY!
RIP Tickets are on a FLASH SALE for $15 off until Monday 6 October at 7pm CST! Take this time to grab up your RIP tickets! These include 2 special Titos Drink Tickets, 10 regular Drink Tickets, 2 shirts and Priority entrance into B&A!

General Admission tickets are also on sale for $25.00!

Here's a link to the BOO Halloween Website where you can pre-purchase your tickets! https://boohalloweenparty.com/

10/14/2025

Excited to see another Tuesday come around. Here we go with this week's tidbits:
✅ WOW! Lowe's Home Improvement is acquiring California-based Foundation Building Materials and their 370 locations in an $8.8b deal.
👀 HIRING: The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs is hiring a Marketing Coordinator. Go be a part of their fantastic mission.
🎵 OCT 14, 1982: Jimmy Buffett was playing Auburn University's Memorial Coliseum.
👀 OCT 14, 1912: Teddy Roosevelt was shot today while campaigning in Milwaukee. He survived the assassination attempt, but lived the rest of his life with a bullet in his chest.
🏈 The New York Jets retired Joe Namath's #12 today in 1985.
🎙️Thanks to Todd Yelton (Samford University Women's Soccer Coach) and Josh Looney (Athletic Director, University of North Alabama) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Check it out at truittnewsradio.com or download the podcast version.
🏀 Tiny Archibald (who stood over 6-feet) led the NBA in scoring & assists during the 1972-1973 season. He is the only player to ever do that.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: The word "dinosaur" was coined by Richard Owen in 1842 from the Greek words for "fearfully great lizard".
👀 CONGRATS: to the Alabama Port Authority who now has the deepest port on the Gulf Coast. Ribbon was cut yesterday wrapping up a huge project for Alabama.
✅ Fifth Third Bank is planning on opening 60 locations across GA & AL over the next 2 years.
🍕 CONGRATS: Valentina’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar in Madison, AL, which is consistently voted as one of the top pizza joints we have, is celebrating 5 years in business!
📅 NOV 13: the Birmingham Business Alliance luncheon at The Grand Bohemian Mountain Brook, Autograph Collection. Senator Tommy Tuberville (odds-on-favorite to be the next governor) is speaking.
🎙️ Looking forward to having Mike Walton ( Halloween Party) and Jeremiah Stone (Epilepsy Foundation Alabama) join us on Truitt News Radio this Saturday (10/18/25). Show starts at 7am on Bham's Talk 99.5.
☑️ Make sure to check out DoItWithTruitt.Com - it's just The World's Greatest Website.
👀 HIRING: Soca Clothing is looking to hire a Team Lead for their retail empire in Homewood, AL.
🏒 Wayne Gretzky scored his first NHL goal today in 1979. He ended up with 1,016. He was pretty good.
✅ CONGRATS: Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe cut the ribbon on two new places, one in San Marcos and one in San Antonio's Encino Park.
☑️ At Truitt Insurance & Bonding, we're Big On BOPs (business owners policies). Let us set you up. We do it everyday. Call me. (205)254-3005.
📅 OCT 17 & 18: The very first Calera Stampede Rodeo takes place on Main Street. Love this!
🎵 Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman & Jason Aldean to headline New Year's Eve Live in Nashville. Let's go. That's going to be awesome.
🎵 My favorite band, KISS, released ALIVE II today in 1978.
🛑 Thanks for the read.

10/12/2025

Excited to hit 10,000 today!
✅Catch TRUITT NEWS RADIO live every Saturday at 7am.
✅Grab the podcast if you sleep in.

10/10/2025

Really excited to have Samford University's Women's Soccer Coach, Todd Yelton, on TRUITT NEWS RADIO with us tomorrow (10/11/25). Fantastic coach with the record to prove it. Get some inside tips on the season and how he goes about things.
✅Show starts at 7AM on Birmingham's Talk 99.5
✅It will be rebroadcast on FM Talk 1065 and The UMP 103.9.
✅Download the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast anytime and catch all past interviews.
Thanks to our great show sponsors: the Poarch Creek Indians, Alabama AGC, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, Stadium Trace Village and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

Samford’s Todd Yelton: A Proven Winner Samford’s Todd Yelton is a winner—and he keeps on proving it time and time again. 🏆👏 We’re excited to hear how he does it and what goes into his success. 💪 Plus, we can’t wait to get his thoughts on the state of college athletics today, espec...

10/10/2025

Check out the latest updates to our Construction Event Calendar.
✅Good info for networking opportunities in the construction community.
✅Hope to see you at a few of these.
Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com for more great info.

Check out the latest DO IT WITH TRUITT Construction Event Calendar. A lot of stuff is coming up. It’s time to get out and do some networking. Hope to see you at some of these.

10/09/2025

The TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT: Texas Edition is back for another round. Check out what's happening in the Lone Star State.

Let’s go again with the Texas edition of the TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT. WHO is building WHAT, WHERE: 👷 Butler-Cohen Design + Build will be building the new Ector County Courthouse in Odessa. 👷 Stewart Builders is making progress on the St. Faustina Catholic Church in Fulshear. 👷 Tei...

10/09/2025

The University of North Alabama's Dr. Josh Looney will be with us this weekend on TRUITT NEWS RADIO to talk up all they have going on in Florence (and it is a lot).
✅Show starts Saturday morning at 7AM on Bham's Talk 99.5.
✅Catch the rebroadcast on FM Talk 1065 and/or The UMP.
✅Thanks to our great show sponsors: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Stadium Trace Village, Alabama AGC, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson and Truitt Insurance & Bonding for sponsoring.

🎙️ We’re Fired Up for This Week’s Guest We are fired up 🔥 to welcome Dr. Josh Looney to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend! 🎉 The University of North Alabama 🦁 has a ton of exciting things happening— including the construction of a brand-new stadium 🏟️ —and Josh is the driving...

10/07/2025

Another great Tuesday is on us. Here are my weekly tidbits to go with it:
✅ CONGRATS: Noon Real Estate, Mayor Richard Phillips and everyone in Oneonta on the opening of the new Oneonta Marketplace Shopping Center. Great job by everyone involved.
🎙️ Thanks to Troy McCawley (President, The BOSS Company) and Jack Hausen (Exec Director, Shepherds Fold Birmingham, Al) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. Go to truittinsurance.com and give it a listen or grab the podcast version (Apple, Spotify, iHeart, etc.).
📅 OCT 17 - 19: The NASCAR Playoffs are coming to Talladega Superspeedway.
👀 HIRING: Regions Bank currently has a Marketing Communications Project Manager position open in Birmingham.
🎙️ Looking forward to having Samford University Women's Soccer Team Coach Todd Yelton and University of North Alabama Athletics Director Josh Looney join us this week on TRUITT NEWS RADIO. Show starts at 7AM Saturday mornings on Bham's Talk 99.5.
👀Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank, who is busy entering the Alabama market right now, announced they are acquiring Dallas-based Comerica Bank, creating a $288,000,000,000 bank. Wow! Deal should be completed in 2026.
✅ CONGRATS: Bham's CommerceOne Bank on the opening of their new branch in Mountain Brook Village.
🍕 PIZZA NEWS: to Hoover's Tortugas Homemade Pizza on recently being named the Best Pizza in Alabama by tastingtable.com.
📽️ They are having the World Premiere of Birmingham's Railroad Park documentary at the Lyric Fine Arts Theatre on October 16th. This project continues making a massive impact in The Ham.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Lulu's Restaurant in Gulf Shores serves about 4,000 guests per day during the summer?
🎵 U2 played Bham's Legion Field today in 1992.
👀 HIRING: Great guy, Keith Keller, and the ACCi team are looking for a Business Development Rep.
🍤 The Annual National Shrimp Festival starts Thursday in Gulf Shores. Check out myshrimpfest.com for more info. Head south and get shrimpy.
👀 Today in 1763, most of what is now Alabama's border with Florida was set by King George III at the 31st parallel.
📺 Media Titan Rubert Murdoch launched Fox News today in 1996.
☑️ Make sure to check out DoItWithTruitt.com.
👀 Buc-ee's is working on opening its northernmost location yet. They have a 74,000 sq ft store with 120 gas pumps planned for Oak Creek, Wisconsin. They are anticipating opening in early 2027.
🏈 Today is the day. Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, absolutely killed poor Cumberland College 222-0 today in 1916. How is that even possible?
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: There are about 700 different species of dinosaur that are known, though not all lived at the same time.
☑️ Keep Truitt Insurance & Bonding in mind when you need surety bonds, business coverage or home & auto insurance. (205)254-3005.
🛑 Thanks for the read.

10/07/2025

The World's Greatest Newsletter is back for another run.
Give it a look. It's fun and you might be in it.

Check out the October issue of the Truitt News Blast – Official Skinny from Truitt World HQ!

10/06/2025

Check out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE right now.

It’s time for this week’s TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT and WHO is Building WHAT, WHERE: 👷 COVER PIC: Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC & Gorrie has started work on The Paramount at Nashville Yards for Giarratana. This is a fantastic looking development which will deliver Tennessee’s tallest buildi...

10/03/2025

Can't wait to talk to Troy McCawley, the boss at The BOSS Company, a fast-growing IT company here in Bham. Troy is a great guy who has an outstanding idea of being a one-source provider We use them at Truitt World HQ.
✅Show starts at 7AM on Bham's Talk 99.5
✅Download the podcast if you sleep in and miss us.
✅Thanks to our fantastic show sponsors: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Stadium Trace Village, Alabama AGC, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

10/03/2025

Excited for Saturday on TRUITT NEWS RADIO when we have Jack Hausen with Shepherds Fold Birmingham, Al joining us. Looking forward to hearing about the work they are doing.
✅Show starts at 7AM Saturday morning on Bham's Talk 99.5
✅If you miss us live, download the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast.
✅Thanks to our great sponsors: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Stadium Trace Village, Alabama AGC, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.