- A late-afternoon building collapse in the Hillsboro neighborhood caused road closures and a lot of curious onlookers. No one was injured.
- Police are preparing for potential overdoses at this week’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Y’all be safe out there.
- The cherry blossom trees that were removed from Riverfront Park will be returned to their former spots this morning, though they are given a 60 percent chance of actually surviving to next spring.
- Janet Hollingsworth has entered our meme-worthy hall of fame with “Wu TangĀ Y’all!”
- The Nashville Scene takes a look at the 15 candidates for five at-large seats on the Metro Council, with many currently completing their expiring terms as a district council member. Election day is August 1.
- City auditors found that the public art fund is owed $363,000 by the city because of an accounting error in the way they counted capital projects, which are supposed to allocate one percent of their total cost to the arts. The arts commission says it will use the new-found money to build new sculptures and installations around town.
- Several candidates for mayor attended a forum hosted by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition where they discussed issues affecting the immigrant families of Nashville. David Briley, John Ray Clemmons, and John Cooper and Julia Marguerite Clark-Johnson were in attendance, while notably absent was Carol Swain.
- The site of Global Mall at the Crossings (formerly known as Hickory Hollow Mall) in Antioch could be home to a new development after an auto magnate is in negotiations to buy the property. The area is designated as an “opportunity zone” to entice developers to invest in order to receive tax breaks.
- State Rep. Vincent Dixie is accused of failing to pay a campaign staffer $4,750, a charge he disputes as inaccurate. The woman went to court to fight an eviction notice because she was unable to pay rent.
- A women-only co-working space will soon open in the L & L Market building on Charlotte Ave, the first of its kind in the city.
- BCycle, the company with the red bikes around town, has started testing its electric bicycle in Nashville after successful launches in other cities. The company said they will have four bicycles to start with.
- The Tennessee Titans announced Wednesday that they would be retiring the jersey numbers for the late #9 Steve McNair and #27 Eddie George at the first home game of next season.
- A developer wants to build a 300-unit apartment complex in MetroCenter following the announcement of Postmates relocating to the area.
- Residents of nearby (with a little bit of it even in Davidson) Ridgetop in Robertson County awoke Tuesday to find that their city’s police department had been disbanded after city leaders were unable to find the money to cover a budget shortfall. The Vice Mayor is said to have demanded the police write more tickets to cover the difference, a statement that drew condemnation from the county’s district attorney’s office.
- A South Nashville neighborhood is losing their curbside trash and recycling service after Public Works discovered they shouldn’t have had the service to begin with in a recent audit. Current rules say that complexes with more than five units must provide their own dumpster service.
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