- Drink maker Walker Feed Co. and Gulch restaurant Party Fowl have created a “Nashville Hot” Bloody Mary mix to go along with last week’s “Nashville Hot” Cookies. Your move, Purity Dairy.
- The Hot Chicken Festival runs from 11 – 3 p.m. Tuesday in East Park if you’re into the actual dish that started it all.
- It’s that time of year when your neighbors shoot off fireworks that wake up your pets and kids.
- MTA plans to buy 31 new hybrid electric buses this year as part of an overall effort to improve service throughout the city.
- Charges were dismissed against two teens accused of arson that had been linked to the November fires in the Great Smoky Mountains. Fourteen died in the blaze.
- Leaders at Metro Nashville Public Schools are facing questions from the community after tests found lead in school drinking water as high as 80 times the EPA limit.
- After more than a century in Nashville, the Tennessee State Fair will likely be moving to one of the surrounding counties in 2019. September’s fair will remain at the fairgrounds.
- Metro Archives has discovered a trove of rare photos from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897. The first of the images has been posted to Facebook.
- The Tennessean has a look at West Nashville’s Harpeth River, a vital water source and wildlife habitat facing numerous environmental concerns.
- Happy Independence Day! Remember to hydrate out there, and leave the fireworks to the professionals.
Photo by Paul Nicholson.