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Bright & Early: Head Desk Edition
Good morning, Nashville. State Sen. Thelma Harper, perhaps best known for her incredible hat collection, has been holding a giant annual Easter egg hunt for almost 30 years. This year, however, someone thought it was a good idea to schedule a “Felony Friendly Job Fair” in the same place at the same time as the Easter [...]
Bright & Early: Festivus For The Rest Of Us Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Spring Hill rejected the zoning request for Festival Tennessee, a proposed theme park that started arousing suspicion from the moment it was announced last month. Though developers promised roller coasters, a water park, the largest hotel complex in the world, a sportsplex, an NBA team and 15,000-20,000 jobs, digging into their past [...]
Happy Hour: Hug A Hilltopper
Big news this afternoon as the Western Kentucky campus and several local schools were put on lockdown after some gunmen dressed in black were reportedly running around Pierce-Ford Tower (that giant dorm on Main Campus). The lockdown was lifted a little while ago and five students were taken into custody. We’re happy to report that [...]
Happy Hour: Too Much Information
So remember when we told you that Oktoberfest was becoming the Germantown Street Festival? The Tennessean steered us wrong. There are actually two festivals in Germantown on the same day at the same time–the street festival AND Oktoberfest. Props to them for the round-about retraction [Tennessean] The student who was shot at Central High School [...]
Bright & Early: Unhappy Hour Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro schools is hoping to start out the school year on the right foot by randomly searching students for drugs, alcohol or weapons. Though they’ve been doing it for three years, the program has been successful in the past at reducing reports of these kinds of violations. Officials say that the goal [...]
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