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Spring is here! How well do you know Nashville’s parks?

By Josh Deepan

April 10, 2025

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Metro Nashville oversees 178 parks and over 100 miles of greenway.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Metro Parks, parks

Where Tennessee’s medieval enthusiasts find community

By Mary Mancini

May 8, 2024

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The Tennessee Renaissance Festival is an annual tradition. Each weekend in May, knights, fair maidens, vikings, faeries, mermaids, pirates, wenches and plainclothes time travelers gather on the streets of Covington Glen, in Williamson County’s Castle Park. 

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Arts and Culture, festivals, parks, Williamson County

You hold the purse strings: Nashvillians can vote now on 35 neighborhood projects vying for funding

By Cynthia Abrams

October 8, 2023

Voting is open for Davidson County residents who want a say in how to spend $10 million in the city’s expanded “participatory budgeting” process.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: budgeting, city budgeting, city funding, city funds, Davidson County, Metro Council district, Metro Government, Metro Nashville, Metro Parks, Nashville, neighborhood projects, parks, participatory budgeting, traffic, traffic calming

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