By Marti Webb Slay For The Tribune The students at the Engineering Academy at Hewitt-Trussville High School are establishing a legacy that future students will have to live up to. In two years of the Electrathon electric car race at Barber Motorsports Park, the Hewitt-Trussville team has entered three cars, placed first, second and third, and established a reputation for running some of the most reliable ca ...

By Gary Lloyd A group of families local to the Trussville area have come together to form Families Against Cancer of Trussville, for the purpose of making a difference in the lives of friends and neighbors touched by cancer. They are raising money to help these families who have medical bills piling up and can no longer work due to being in and out of the hospital for treatment.  FACT is selling the larger, ...

For The Tribune What do you do with 40,000 pounds of sweet potatoes? The Society of St. Andrew, a hunger relief organization with offices around the country, including one in Alabama, works with local Cullman County sweet potato growers who are offering a hefty amount of nutritious food as a donation to the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama and to many agencies feeding the hungry in the Birmingham and ...

By Gary Lloyd A beach safety director will be a guest on the Rick and Bubba Show on Friday and will talk about “Molly’s Patrol” and surf rescue lifeguards in Orange Beach. Beach Safety Director Melvin Shepard will be on the show, which will begin at 8 a.m. on radio station WZZK from The Wharf. WZZK is FM station 104.7 in the Birmingham area. Molly Bryant, a Trussville native, drowned in the ocean in Orange ...

By Gary Lloyd Trussville’s Lightning Strikes will be the site of a Professional Bowling Association tournament next week. The PBA50 Greater Birmingham Open begins Sunday and runs through Wednesday. Two locals, Charles Allen Jr. of Pinson and Dyer Honeycutt Jr. of Trussville, are two of 87 bowlers in the tournament. Walter Ray Williams Jr. will compete in the tournament. He is one of the most recognized bowl ...

By Gary Lloyd Paine Primary and Paine Intermediate schools are hosting a Boosterthon Fun Run event Thursday and Friday. The primary school will host it Thursday, and the intermediate school will host its run Friday. The primary school’s fun run will be from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today. On Friday, the intermediate school’s fifth-graders will participate at 9 a.m., fourth-graders at 10:30 a.m. and third-grad ...

By Gary Lloyd Turkey Creek Nature Preserve in Pinson hosted a bioblitz Saturday. The event gives researchers, students and visitors a “great opportunity” to discover the wildlife at the preserve, said Resident Manager Charles Yeager. There are three endangered species of fish at Turkey Creek, Yeager said. The vermillion darter is one of those species and is “absolutely beautiful,” Yeager said. [caption id=" ...

By Gary Lloyd A Trussville teenager will headline Saturday’s Birmingham Reads and Brookwood Celebrates event. Jackson Capps, 13, will headline the event, which will be on the streetscape outside Colonial Brookwood Village on Lakeshore Drive in Homewood from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Capps, an aspiring country music artist, performed in Greeneville, Tenn., last month with country music singer-songwriter Ma ...

By Gary Lloyd The Clay Public Library on Old Springville Road has a new sign out front. The new sign, expected to be completed this week, is a result of a $5,000 state grant, said Clay Mayor Charles Webster. Webster said letters were being added to the sign this week. The sign was constructed for $3,848, he said. “It turned out really nice,” Webster said. “It looks very good.” [caption id="attachment_1768" ...

By Gary Lloyd A Clay man has published his second book about faith. Joel Dison, the pastor at Ruffner Valley Baptist Church in Irondale, will release “Indescribable Joy: Discovering the Principles of Joy from Paul’s Letter to the Phillippians” on Tuesday. The book is about discovering the principles of joy from Paul’s letter to the Philippians and will teach how to stop seeking those things that bring tempo ...