By Lee Weyhrich The Pinson City Council last week annexed 200 acres, connecting Pinson to the Woodhaven Lakes neighborhood. According to Mayor Hoyt Sanders and Councilman John Churchwell, notices have already been sent to residents of Woodhaven Lakes, and several residents have expressed interest in becoming part of the city of Pinson. “I believe this is our third-largest annexation, by landmass, since beco ...

CenturyLink, the primary telephone service provider in Trussville, has lost Internet service throughout the country. A company representative reached through the customer service department at approximately 8 a.m. Tuesday said the company planned to restore service within an hour. So far, that hasn't happened. According to the employee, the problems started Tuesday at about 7 a.m. However, many customers st ...

By Lee Weyhrich The Clay City Council on Monday declared a moratorium on check cashing, payday advance and title loan business licenses. The order would not affect the one check cashing establishment already in the city limits, but it would keep new business licenses for this type of  business from being issued. Local businessman Ron Self disagrees with the moratorium. According to Self, these businesses wo ...

By Gary Lloyd A 23-year-old Trussville man is dead after a Tuesday crash on Chalkville Mountain Road. Jeffery Tyler Harris of Trussville died on the scene, on Chalkville Mountain Road near J R Drive. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Randy Christian said just after midnight Tuesday deputies responded to a traffic accident with injuries in the Grayson Valley area.  The crash involved a pickup tr ...

By Gary Lloyd Trussville City Schools and city officials on Monday reviewed a plan that would build two elementary schools in Trussville -- one in Magnolia Place and another at the old high school and middle school building in the Cahaba Project. Both community schools would have the capacity to accommodate 500 students but would house about 400 students. Construction, included equipment and other necessary ...

By Erik Harris Tenth-ranked Hewitt-Trussville has talent, experience and confidence. But sometimes those qualities aren’t enough to win championships. To go the distance and earn a ring, you must have that fighter’s mentality that won’t let you quit when things get tough. Rather the Huskies will hoist the AHSAA championship trophy later this month is yet to be seen, but with a nerve-racking series win over ...

By Scott Buttram The second anniversary of the April 27 tornados that ravaged the state has just passed. The rebuilding is still underway in Clay and Trussville neighborhoods from the January tornados just over a year ago. With those reminders, it will come as no surprise that Weather.com has listed three Alabama cities among their top five tornado cities in the United States. No state had as many cities li ...

Former “American Idol” finalist Danny Gokey will headline this year’s Trussville City Fest on Friday and Saturday. The 33rd annual festival, formerly known as Dog Daze, is presented by the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce and will be at The Mall in downtown Trussville. Admission is free. Gokey, who finished third in Season 8 of the television competition, will perform Friday at 8 p.m. Gokey is a country ...

By Gary Lloyd The Trussville Tribune editor Gary Lloyd will author a book about the history of Trussville. The book will be published through The History Press and is expected to come out next spring. “Trussville Through the Years” is a similar book, authored by Carol and Earl Massey, and published by Valley Printing Company in the late 1980s. [caption id="attachment_6009" align="alignleft" width="150"] A n ...

By Gary Lloyd Students at Paine Primary School are helping create avid readers across the greater Birmingham area by passing along the books they have already read. The school last month participated in the Birmingham Reads Book Drive Challenge that was a part of the Birmingham Reads Project, a collaborative literacy project of Better Basics and the Junior League of Birmingham. Paine Primary School collecte ...