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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A wet and cold Monday is underway and temperatures are expected to top out at 39 degrees. The rest of the week promises more of the same with high temps projected in the 30s and lows falling to the teens and 20s overnight. See SNOW, Page 3
Corbeau hosting Trussville’s Toast of the Town later this month
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Irondale remembers Lt. Mark Meadows By Chris Basinger, News Editor
IRONDALE, Ala. – The Irondale community gathered to memorialize Irondale Police Department Lt. Mark Meadows and join in a circle of prayer with his family and fellow officers at City Hall Tuesday evening. Meadows was killed on the morning of Jan. 6 when he was hit by a vehicle while directing traffic along Grants Mill Road outside Church of the Highlands. He was 60 years old. As members of the community arrived at Tuesday’s ceremony, many placed
Local police departments express condolences for Irondale officer who was killed on-duty From Tribune staff reports
IRONDALE, Ala. – Neighboring police departments are sending their sympathies after Irondale PD Lt. Mark Meadows was struck by a car and killed
See POLICE, Page 4
Pinson Council mulls over usage of vacant Main Street property
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TRUSSVILLE, Ala. – Trussville’s annual awards celebration, Toast of the Town, will be making its return on Jan. 27 at Corbeau Wine Bar. Organized by the Trussville Area Chamber of Com-
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Community members gather outside City Hall in memory of Lt. Meadows. Chris Basinger/Trussville Tribune
A portrait of Lt. Meadows is displayed next to his patrol car. Chris Basinger/Trussville Tribune
flowers or other mementos on Meadows’ patrol car, which was parked in front of City Hall. “We are family, although we’ve gone through a tragic event, we’re really going to miss Lt. Meadows,” Mayor James D. Stewart, Jr.
By Nathan Prewett, For the Tribune
“He played an integral part in our police department. I called him a ‘silent warrior.’ He was an individual that did not say a lot, but when he did speak, we all listened.”
PINSON, Ala. – The Pinson City Council held a lengthy discussion during its meeting on Thursday, Jan. 2 regarding a vacant lot owned by the city on Main Street. Since the building that formerly stood on the prop-
See LT. MEADOWS, Page 4
See PINSON, Page 4
True40 opening new boutique fitness studio in Trussville
By Chris Basinger, News Editor
TRUSSVILLE, Ala. – Locals looking for somewhere to move their bodies and feel empowered will have a new place to try out come spring when True40 Studio opens in the Trussville Entertainment District.
Miss Alabama Abbie Stockard of Vestavia Hills was crowned Miss America on Sunday night. Photo via Miss America Facebook
Former Miss Trussville Abbie Stockard crowned Miss America True40 Studio. Credit: Taylor Dane Photography
The fitness boutique, which also has locations in Birmingham and Homewood, combines principles of strength training, cardio, barre, Pilates, and yoga for a high-intensity, low-impact workout. “We try to focus more on our workout being a celebration of being able
to move your body, not as much as like, ‘oh I have to go workout,’ and treating it like it’s a chore,” Franchisee Monica Davis said. Davis, who lives in Trussville, started attending classes at True40 in 2022 and experienced first-hand See TRUE40, Page 3
By Erica Thomas, 1819 News
Miss Alabama Abbie Stockard was crowned Miss America Sunday night after days of competition in Orlando. Stockard, from Vestavia Hills, was crowned Miss Trussville 2023 and is an Auburn nursing student. With a doctorate, she wants to become a pediatric nurse
practitioner. Stockard, 22, has championed her community service initiative, Cystic Fibrosis Awareness. The cause became essential to her when she met her friend Maddie in third grade after watching Maddie struggle to breathe. “It means the world that I have this opportunity to represent the state and serve those within the community
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and truly feel as if I am making an impact and touching the lives and the hearts of the people across Alabama,” Stockard previously told 1819 News. This is the fourth Miss Alabama win for Miss America: Deidre Downs in 2005, Heather Whitestone (the first deaf woman to win the Miss America crown) in
See MISS AMERICA, Page 3