Trussville News

No schools from The Trussville Tribune coverage area were among the 78 "failing" schools released by the Alabama Department of Education on Tuesday morning.

Ashley Bishop, daughter of veteran Hewitt-Trussville High School French and English teacher Beth Bishop, becomes Zelda Fitzgerald, tormented wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in William Luce's play "The Last Flapper," which opens this weekend at the Birmingham Festival Theatre.

The Trussville City Council in a special-called meeting Monday voted 3-2 to reject the two bids for work to repair the hole in front of Chevron on Chalkville Mountain Road and re-bid the project.

Sponsored by the Trussville Takedown Club, the camp will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. each day.

Cooper was a three-year starter at right guard at Hewitt-Trussville. Cooper said he will start out at nose tackle - which he played his freshman year - at Mississippi College.

The 2013 Ms. Senior Trussville Pageant will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Trussville Senior Activity Center on Cherokee Drive.

Trussville police chief Don Sivley said Lifesaver was called to transport a wreck victim at around 1:15 p.m. on Saturday.

"[The sinkhole] will eventually tear up all of the infrastructure through there if we don't fix it now," Trussville mayor Gene Melton tells us.

"[The sinkhole] will eventually tear up all of the infrastructure through there if we don't fix it now," Trussville mayor Gene Melton tells us.

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The Trussville Police Department is seeking information on a robbery that occurred at the Quality Inn on Norrel Drive in Trussville.

The Trussville City Council in a special-called session Friday afternoon approved a resolution declaring a public safety emergency for the repair of storm-related damages to the drainage structure located at Chalkville Mountain Road and Service Road.

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In a statement released today, the Alabama Department of Transportation said a planned moving operation for installation of traffic striping on I-459 would take place Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Weather permitting, Alabama Department of Transportation crews on Wednesday will being striping traffic lanes along Interstate 459 between Irondale and Trussville.

TRUSSVILLE , Alabama -- Wayne Sullivan, who recently retired as Jefferson County's roads and transportation director after 32 years of service, has been hired to serve as Trussville's superintendent of streets and sanitation.

Hewitt-Trussville Middle School Principal Phyllis Faust will be taking over as the new principal at the Trussville City School Alternative Learning Center, Superintendent Pattie Neill said last week.

The Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama will meet Wednesday morning to decide the fate of two of their camps.

Areas that will be paved and patched include, in Tutwiler: Tutwiler Drive, Davis Drive, Anderson Way, Woodward Road, Munger Circle and Powell Place; Honor Keith Road, Liles Lane, Pamela Drive in Westridge, Water Oak Drive intersection, Ashwood Circle, Ashwood Lane and Ashton Avenue.

The city council approved agreements with Schoel Engineering for designing the needed improvements to the Green Drive and Vann Road areas.