UA, City Partner to Create Automated Blight-Detection Project
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The University of Alabama is teaming up with the City of Tuscaloosa to target and improve areas of the city that have been forgotten and neglected. This partnership seeks to beautify every corner of the Druid City while ensuring that all areas can remain useful to businesses and residents.
LegalMatch.com defines a blighted property as land that is in a dilapidated, unsafe and unsightly condition. While each state has its own criteria for what is considered a blighted property, here are a few widely-accepted areas of consideration:
The morning after Bill Connell graduated from Tuscaloosa High School, class of 66, decked out in Sunday-go-to-meetin silver shark skin suit, he flew out of the Druid City at 7 a.m. on Southern Airways, and into New York City on Duane Allman s dime.
The 17-year-old musician was joining the Allman Joys, a quartet precursor to the fabled Allman Brothers Band, hired to replace Maynard Portwood, who despite being talented on the skins, was cursed with a sugar addiction that pushed him to spend intended dentistry dollars on peach sodas and pralines. Those cravings left him virtually toothless, Connell said, a visual that didn t fit Duane Skydog Allman s image of their impending stardom.
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The Ice Cream of the Future is a thing of the past on Tuscaloosa s 15th Street as the Dippin Dots store that has operated there for more than 20 years has permanently closed.
In an exclusive interview with The Tuscaloosa Thread, Dippin Dots Senior Director of Franchising Steve Rothenstein said the company originally closed the 15th Street location back in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He confirmed Wednesday afternoon the store will not reopen.
Fans of the company s one-of-a-kind beaded ice cream need not panic, though, Rothenstein said. Dippin Dots products will still be readily available in several area locations such as convenience stores.
After living in the Druid City for over a decade, I have noticed that the drivers here seem to be completely unaware that doing this one simple thing can make everyone s lives easier.
I m going out on a limb here and estimating that about 75 percent of y all don t know about this one simple trick. It s so easy to do, and heck, most people would say it s just common sense:
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO STOP AT A RED LIGHT.
Wild, huh? Did YOU know this crazy fact?
STOP your car when the traffic signal turns red!
When you see a traffic light, you re actually supposed to STOP your vehicle. Use the brakes to bring your car to a stop. I know your first instinct is to just plow on through the intersection because you re, like, so important BUT fight that urge and hit the brakes.
Celebratory Gunfire Damages Two Tuscaloosa Residences
The Tuscaloosa Police Department responded to 30 reports of celebratory gunfire within the Druid City on New Year s Eve.
TPD Public Information Officer Stephanie Taylor says the reports came in between 7:30 p.m on December 31 and 4:30 a.m. on January 1.
No injuries were reported as a result of the gunfire; however, stray bullets damaged two residences in Tuscaloosa.
A bullet came through the ceiling and shattered a window at a home on Mimosa Park Drive while the family was inside. A home on Second Avenue East was damaged when a bullet came through the living room ceiling; the family was also home at the time of this incident.