The Music City Center was never needed as a pandemic overflow hospital, as once feared. But it will be used as Nashville’s centralized mass vaccination site, in the hope that the city will eventually get enough COVID-19 vaccine to make use of its 2.1 million square feet of space.
Nashville Moves Vaccination Site To Its Huge Convention Center In Hopes Of Getting More Doses
Nashville Mayor Says School Reopening Is ‘Just Around The Corner’ But Ultimately An MNPS Decision
Nashville’s mayor is using phrases like “very soon” and “just around the corner” to describe when students of Metro Nashville Public Schools will again have an in-person option.
Report: Low Lighting, Sparse Crosswalks Are Partly To Blame After Deadly Years For Pedestrians
Pedestrian deaths set a record in Nashville in 2019 and then hit an even deadlier level last year with 39 lives lost. Now an analysis from advocacy group Walk Bike Nashville is identifying trends in the incidents.
Nashville Councilmembers Work To Protect Knowles Assisted Living Facility, After Bordeaux Closed On Short Notice
Nashville councilmembers are again debating if the city should stay in the nursing home business. Next week, the Metro Council will consider two proposals — to slow down the process of closing the city’s last facility and to require the mayor to create a long-term plan.
In Hiring Blitz, UT Names New Football Coach — Also From Central Florida
Josh Heupel was hired by his former boss Danny White, who was announced as UT’s new athletic director last week. Heupel is a former quarterback at Oklahoma.
TBI Is Investigating A Shooting By A Police Officer On Brick Church Pike
Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are looking into a shooting by a police officer Wednesday afternoon. Metro Nashville Police confirmed the incident along Brick Church Pike, which they say happened in the parking lot of an Exxon gas station at the intersection with Trinity Lane.
Cumberland University Baseball Coach To Retire After Four Decades
Woody Hunt is one of just six college baseball coaches to top 1,600 wins. He also coached 99 players who went on to professional contracts, including two major leaguers.
With Vaccine In Short Supply, Tennessee Favors Health Departments Over Hospitals
Tennessee hospitals are largely suspending their efforts to vaccinate patients in their systems against COVID-19. But they say it’s not because of a new state rule that they have to offer doses to the wider community.
Nashville School Officials Eye Return For Students As Pandemic Slows
The COVID-19 pandemic has put Nashville families on a wild rollercoaster ride since Metro Nashville Public Schools went predominately virtual last spring.
Tennessee Senators Oppose Holding Impeachment Trial On President Trump’s Involvement In Capitol Ransacking
It’s not a surprise, but both of Tennessee’s senators supported an effort Tuesday to force a vote on the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — a move meant to block the proceedings.
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