The Wallace Street apartments are designed to help make the transition into housing for previously unhoused tenants easier.
Katherine Ceicys
Katherine Ceicys is a multimedia producer for This Is Nashville. Katherine first came to public radio as a freelancer for WPLN. Her stories have been aired on The World and Here and Now. On her podcast, Finding Good, she has in-depth conversations centered around a different topic for each series. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Katherine has been a bit of a rolling stone- and now calls Nashville home. As a journalist and producer, she is dedicated to helping others tell their stories. She enjoys profiling individuals and communities, covering the personal impacts of policies, the environment, and rural life, and exploring different takes on how to live well as a human. While she’s always finding stories and writing for fun, she also fills her early mornings with yoga, her evenings with cooking and time with friends, and her free time as a happy (and sendy) intermediate climber, whitewater kayaker, diver, and surfer.
What’s it like competing in a pageant? Contestants take us behind the scenes
From an outsider’s perspective, competing in a pageant looks intimidating and complicated. There are rules for what to wear, and how to walk. You have to demonstrate a talent and answer complex questions on current events in laughably short time limits.
One Generation Away shares food — and hope — with local communities
Local non-profit One Generation Away is working hard to get food to people who need it in Middle Tennessee.
Tennessee gun owners aren’t required to take classes, but many do. WPLN went to learn what it’s like.
“The power of a gun is daunting,” says one student. “That’s going to take time for me to get used to. It wasn’t so much in the recoil or anything, it was more just having that power.”
Romance novels are booming — and diversifying — and this Nashville book club is loving it
On a dark and stormy night, about 30 women brave the pouring rain to gather at Parnassus Books in Green Hills. They’re here for the store’s romance book club: Between the Covers.
What is a ‘sister city’? Nashville prepares for cultural exchanges with Erbil, the capitol of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
A partnership roughly a decade in the making is about to become official: Nashville and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, are in the homestretch of formalizing a relationship as “sister cities.” Erbil would become Nashville’s tenth sister — a designation that involves travel, cultural and professional exchanges.
How Tennessee has grown one of the largest student fishing circuits in the nation
“We take everybody. That’s the beauty of it: that it’s open to absolutely everyone … And the fish don’t discriminate. They don’t care who you are. If you’ve got the right bait on, they’re going to come get it and then you get to weigh them in.”
As Tennessee’s physician assistants help more patients, they’re pushing for changes to restrictions set in 1999
A legislative decision means it will be at least another year before Tennessee’s physician assistants — known as “PAs” — could get restrictions lifted on their scope of practice.
WeGo seeks bus rider input to improve its Access service for people with disabilities
Nashville’s WeGo transit agency is in the process of reviewing its Access program, which provides services for riders with disabilities, and considering more than two dozen potential changes.
Fort Campbell soldiers feel increased ‘urgency’ in deployment near Ukraine
The latest deployment of soldiers from Fort Campbell recently arrived in Romania, placing them at one of NATO’s closest outposts near Ukraine.
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