By Gary Lloyd The Trussville City Board of Education last week approved of creating a principal position for the Alternative Learning Center on Parkway Drive. Trussville City Schools Director of Student Services Bill Hamilton, the center’s program supervisor, requested at last month’s board retreat that the school board consider creating the position. The center is located in the old Hewitt-Trussville Junio ...

By Gary Lloyd Marketing 24/7 CEO Ruwena Healy, a marketing and social media networking professional, recently served as a panelist on the Women’s Business Council as part of the Birmingham Business Alliance 2013 schedule of events. Healy’s presentation, “Follow Your Audience: Using Social Media To Build Business,” focused on the rewards and best practices of staying connected to clients and customers throug ...

By Gary Lloyd Relay for Life of East Jefferson will begin Friday night in Trussville. The event will last from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday at the youth football field at the Trussville Sports Complex. Relay for Life is an event that raises funds to fight cancer and a chance to honor cancer survivors and remember loved ones lost. Special moments during a typical Relay for Life event include a luminaria ...

By Gary Lloyd Broadway Stars Camp is collaboration between Chanel Wood Acting and The ACTA Community Theater in Trussville will have a camp beginning June 17. For two weeks, students will be immersed in a musical theatre program. Broadway Stars is all about giving students from ages 8 to 18 an introduction to the three main aspects of musical theatre -- music, acting and choreography. Broadway Stars Camp in ...

By Gary Lloyd Every face will be familiar. First-year Hewitt-Trussville head baseball coach Jeff Mauldin knows the players, coaches and parents from Pelham. Mauldin coached there the past six seasons. First-year Pelham head coach Sean Anderson was Mauldin’s assistant the last six seasons, someone Mauldin speaks with at least once a week. So was David White, a good friend of Mauldin’s. “I’m happy for them,” ...

By Gary Lloyd A real estate group owned by Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke has bought the Promenade at Tutwiler Farm shopping center in Trussville, according to the Birmingham Business Journal.  The Birmingham Business Journal reports that The Kroenke Group bought the Colonial Promenade at Tutwiler Farm on U.S. Highway 11 in Trussville for $35.9 million. A Jefferson County Probate Court official Friday mo ...

By Gary Lloyd Ten families received keys to their new homes at Thursday’s Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity Eighth Annual Home Builders Blitz in the Winchester Hills subdivision in Clay. Each family was presented with a Bible, frame with photos and a key. “There are just not any words to express how I feel,” Betty Brown said after receiving her key. Beryl Bass, who is moving from Midfield, kept her wo ...

By Gary Lloyd Wells Fargo has held off for now on selling the vacant New Covenant Fellowship Church on Pinson Valley Parkway to Pinson’s Solid Rock Church or the city of Center Point. Wells Fargo Southeast Communications Manager Jay Lawrence released this statement to The Trussville Tribune on Wednesday: “The court appointed receiver is actively marketing the property and no sales contract has been signed.” ...

By Gary Lloyd Trussville City Fest, which was rained out May 3-4, is expected to be made up. No makeup date has been announced, though Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Diane Poole said she is “still working on” a possible date. Despite City Fest being promoted as a “rain or shine” event, canceling the event earlier this month was due to safety issues for patrons and vendors. Standing w ...

By Gary Lloyd Award winners from the Pinson Education Foundation annual banquet earlier this month have been announced. Abby Vinson, a Pinson Valley High School senior who recently signed a golf scholarship with Point University in Georgia, was named Student of the Year. Lauren Tralongo, who will be attending Auburn University, was runner-up. Pinson Valley High School Fine Arts teacher Rachel Smith was name ...