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Bright & Early: Christmas Creep Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The holiday season is officially here with the arrival of the Tennessee Christmas tree. The 50-foot tree made the trek from a family farm in Oak Hill to downtown this morning where crews put it into place in front of the State Capitol. If you’re able to stroll by today, you catch [...]
Cleaning Up The Mess: Where To Recycle Your Christmas Tree
With all these tales of environmental disaster and doom and dead fish and toxic ash sludge, we feel like we really need to do our part to keep the rest of the state from getting disgusting. One pretty painless thing we can do is make sure our Christmas trees go to a happy place when [...]
Bright & Early: Are We There Yet? Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re down to our last day before the vacation and we’re ready to join the masses of Nashvillians flooding out of the city for the holiday. Lucky for us, the traffic is expected to be considerably thinner this year thanks to our tanking economy. Fewer cars on the road means fewer accidents, [...]
Happy Hour: Two Days To Turkeyday
After finally locating a Christmas tree for the city (though it would have been kinda cool to have the National Guard to airlift one from Mt. Juliet), NES chopped it down today despite protests from the environmentalists. The tree was 60 years old. [Tennessean]
A couple of generous Nashville celebrities kicked off the Thanksgiving season by [...]
Bright & Early: Decisions, Decisions! Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We woke up to the news that city officials have FINALLY decided on a Christmas tree for us, which they’ll (and by “they” we mean our BFFs at NES) be putting up in the Public Square on December 5th. Apparently it’s been a rough year for the Christmas tree farms due to [...]
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