• Today marks 100 years since the Dutchman’s Curve train accident in what is now West End area, the single deadliest passenger train accident in US history with more 100 dead. The death-toll is considered underestimated by many historians, as most of the dead were black men traveling in poorly maintained wooden cars.
• A magazine that covers state and government issues took a look at Nashville’s current budget crunch and did not paint as rosy a picture about the city’s future. The article highlighted the increased crime and trouble caused by financing large civic projects.
• WTVF analyzed last month’s vote against raising property taxes in Nashville and how each council member’s vote would have affected their own home values. The analysis did not find a direct correlation with how they voted on the measure.
• There will soon be 31 new buses and 19 new vans on the streets for the Nashville MTA, with the agency saying these vehicles will help alleviate a shortage that prompted administrators to cut routes last month. The downtown transit hub is also undergoing a six month renovation project.
• A former Google employee and a former school teacher have created a Nashville-based company that offers home delivery of recycled toilet paper — you read that right — as a way to highlight conservation efforts of trees for paper products. Their enterprise then puts money back into public education about recycling.
• Erica Gilmore, a former mayoral candidate and current metro council member, has apologized for comparing the city’s current issues with youth crime to those of Beruit, Lebanon (the other Lebanon). She had made the comments during a community meeting meant to address the topic.
• We’re going to just say that having a fear of spiders and clicking on this story is not recommended. The Brentwood woman is recovering. ?
• “The Band Box” at First Tennessee Park has a new bar game that blends the fun of Connect Four and free-throw shooting. The game was developed by a local artist.
• Early voting begins for the August primaries and some local elections, including for the unexpired Vice Mayor term, at the Howard School Building before expanding to local precincts on July 19. These are the primaries for US House, Senate and the state legislature that will head to the general election in November.
• Memo to would-be drug smugglers: you can’t trick the dogs  with air freshener over the merchandise.

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