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Antioch

Weekend Adventure: Taming high-flying kites at Mill Ridge Park

Tony Gonzalez

October 6, 2022

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This Nashville park is still being built, but yoga, movie nights and nature hikes have already begun. This audio postcard features wind gusts and chasing down a rogue kite.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, Metro Parks, Mill Ridge Park

Nashville neighborhood associations — their successes and struggles

Tony Gonzalez

September 21, 2022

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Their work can be subtle and unseen, but neighborhood associations often play a key role in building connections among neighbors and setting the vision for a community. But running an association is no small job.

Tagged With: Antioch, Nashville neighborhoods, North Nashville, South Nashville

Curious Nashville: Will traffic ever improve at Bell Road, one of Nashville’s most baffling interstate exits?

Hallie Graham

April 6, 2022

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Traffic is not really a new story in Nashville, but Rusti Keen says Exit 59 on Interstate 24 is “particularly insane.” So, she came to Curious Nashville with a question.

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, Features, WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, Curious Nashville, transportation

Nashville To Provide Hotel Rooms And Cash In Effort To Halt Coronavirus Hotspots In Immigrant Communities

Blake Farmer

July 1, 2020

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Nashville’s health department is focusing its coronavirus response on hot spots among immigrant communities in Antioch and Madison. A key part of a new plan described Tuesday will provide hotel rooms to isolate positive patients.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, Race & Equity Tagged With: Antioch, Coronavirus In Tennessee, immigrants, Leslie Waller

Nashville Will Ramp Up COVID-19 Screenings, Including At Drive-Thru Tents

Damon Mitchell

March 20, 2020

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Metro Nashville is planning to open as many as five drive-thru coronavirus testing centers across the city. They’ve formed a partnership with local health providers, including St. Thomas Health, Meharry Medical College, Nashville General Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As of Thursday, officials had counted 75 cases in Davidson County.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Alex Jahangir, Antioch, Coronavirus In Tennessee

Photos: Antioch Waffle House Reopens After Mass Shooting

Julieta Martinelli

April 26, 2018

Employees this morning removed the yellow police tape that has surrounded a Waffle House in Antioch since early Sunday morning, after a man opened fire with an AR-15, killing four and injuring several others.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, Waffle House shooting

Citizen Tip Ends Nashville Manhunt, But Grieving Continues

WPLN Staff

April 24, 2018

In the end, it was a citizen tip that ended Monday’s police manhunt for Travis Reinking.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, Waffle House shooting

Hickory Hollow Piecing Together A Resurrection

Blake Farmer

July 1, 2013

Owners of the former Hickory Hollow Mall in Antioch are trying to pull off a miraculous resurrection. And even with an additional shot in the arm from new city-funded projects, full-scale revival remains years off.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Antioch, dead mall, Hickory Hollow Mall

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