Bright & Early: Live And Learn Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Although Metro schools barely made the cut for No Child Left Behind, the state has decided to pull their contract for providing GED services because officials weren’t happy with how it was being handled. Consequently, the program has been handed off to local charities like the YWCA who can provide the classes on a much smaller scale for the time being. Adult English language classes have also reportedly been scaled back, but there’s no word yet on what that will look like.
- Centennial won’t kill you. Metro health officials have been working hard to figure out why several dozen geese and hundreds of fish dropped dead in Centennial Park. They now suspect the culprit is avian botulism, which forms on dead fish carcuses and is then eaten by birds. And though it’s gross, it poses no threat to us humans.
- Awful construction project ahead. If you drive Concord Road often, you may want to start planning an alternate route. TDOT will soon start widening the road which will completely close the 1/2-mile section between Edmondson Pike and Crockett Road for two full months.
- Bits & Pieces. Several businesses in Mt. Juliet were evacuated yesterday after a construction crew accidentally struck a gas line … Home sales were way up in June, indicating that there might be a light at the end of the tunnel … A man is suing Regions Bank for failing to disclose some of their ATM fees.
Photo by scruffyeagle.
