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Part 6: To-go orders increase at Five Agaves restaurant in Old Hickory
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered virtually every aspect of life and created a new normal for Nashville residents. To capture the ways life has changed, award-winning photographer John Partipilo spent several weeks in the community and the result is an eight-part series of photos. Five Agaves, a Mexican food restaurant in Old Hickory, has seen […]
A snapshot of July’s rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Nashville by zip code
Densely populated neighborhoods in South Nashville, Madison and Nashville’s downtown core continue to see the largest number of COVID-19 positive cases, but case counts have sharply increased in other parts of the city as well as coronavirus cases continue to spike in the state’s capitol. Here is a snapshot of COVID-19 positive cases by zip […]
Hamilton County to invest in high-speed internet for 28,000 public school students
Low-income families with children in Chattanooga Hamilton County public schools will get access to high-speed internet services under a plan announced Wednesday by city and county leaders. The investment, estimated at $8.2 million over the next ten years, is a first-of-its-kind effort by any U.S. municipality to provide free broadband services to any family with […]
Two MNPS staffers test positive, 18 quarantine after planning session
Metro Nashville Public Schools got a foretaste of what could happen if and when in-person learning returns this fall when two staffers tested positive for COVID-19 and 18 staffers were forced to quarantine following a recent planning session at Smith Springs Elementary School. A district spokesman said one of the two staffers subsequently tested negative […]
Clarksville challenger targets veterans in race against incumbent Powers
State Sen. Bill Powers, R-Clarksville, has been representing state senate District 22 for just over a year, but he’s got opposition from fellow conservative Doug Englen, who is mounting a case for change. Powers has the benefit of name recognition and a lifetime of service to the community, but Englen comes offering a long military […]
Tennessee Walking Horse legislation advances
Legislation to further boost the effort to protect Tennessee Walking horses took another step forward as Amendment 38, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-TN, won bipartisan support Friday in Congress as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2021 Agriculture spending package. The amendment would yield $750,000 in funding for the USDA’s Office of Inspector […]
The New Normal, Part 6: Long lines to get free coronavirus tests
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered virtually every aspect of life and created a new normal for Nashville residents. To capture the ways life has changed, award-winning photographer John Partipilo spent several weeks in the community and the result is an eight-part series of photos. As cases of COVID-19 spiked in June, the number of residents […]
Metro Health Department in talks about bringing COVID-19 vaccine trial to Nashville
The Metro Department of Health is in talks with a Nashville medical research company about bringing a COVID-19 vaccine trial here with the goal of launching in mid-August. There are still details to be ironed out, but Health Department Director Dr. Michael Caldwell said he hoped to have a proposal to present to the board […]
COVID cases climb among Tennessee children as schools seek to resume instruction
A football player at a Knox County Catholic high school tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks after team practice got underway in early July. Practice was suspended for another two weeks as a precaution. In Oak Ridge, a band student and an instructor tested positive for the virus at the public high school’s band camp, […]
The New Normal -Part 5: Plastic barriers, free masks at Lockeland Table
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered virtually every aspect of life and created a new normal for Nashville residents. To capture the ways life has changed, award-winning photographer John Partipilo spent several weeks in the community and the result is an eight-part series of photos. At the popular neighborhood restaurant Lockeland Table, the pandemic has overhauled […]
Get in ‘good trouble’: John Lewis’ words ring out in Capitol one more time
WASHINGTON — The immortal words of the late civil rights leader John Lewis rang out from the U.S. Capitol Monday during a private ceremony in celebration of his life. “You must find a way to get in the way,” he said in a recording of a 2014 commencement speech he gave at Emory University. “You must […]
Why Metro’s deal with the Sounds is a major hurdle for MLB to Nashville
As a group of business people ramps up its efforts to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville, a major obstacle stands in the way in the form of Metro’s current stadium deal with the Triple A Nashville Sounds. The New York Times and USA Today published stories in recent weeks about former baseball executive Dave […]