• Six metro council members, two school board members and various other elected officials have endorsed incumbent Mayor David Briley in his run-off on September 12.
• His opponent council member at-large John Cooper picked up the endorsement of the local firefighters union. Early voting begins Friday, August 23. ?
• The city of Nashville will use federal funds to help homeless youth pay rent through a program with the Oasis Center. The group is seeking to partner with landlords.
• Investigators say that a two-alarm fire in Midtown Monday morning was likely caused by a discarded cigarette. Nobody was seriously hurt in the blaze.
• Metro Nashville Public Schools is again facing a teacher shortage, while those working for the system have taken on second jobs to make ends meet.
• Summer Shakespeare, formerly called Nashville Shakespeare Festival, has relocated to The Yard at OneC1TY a few miles from its past home in Centennial Park. The performances are still free.
• WPLN’s “Curious Nashville ” could use your help locating the owner / maintainer of an ornate downtown courtyard garden. ?
• In a story just about anyone could have told you, Nashville’s musicians tell The Tennessean that they are being priced out of the city’s core and having to move farther away to make ends meet. Many say they live an hour outside of the city.
• A planned power outage in the Belmont neighborhood has irked local residents there, saying it is dangerous to not have air conditioning with as hot as it is outside.
• Assembly Food Hall has been chosen as the name for the European-style restaurant space in the Fifth+Broadway development, with 30 stalls for vendors to serve up their fare.
• Nashville set a new record for the number of travelers passing through the Nashville International Airport in July, airport officials said. ?
• A local podcast called Flatrock is exploring the facts surrounding the sexual assault and murder of a sixth-grade girl 50 years ago while she walked to a neighborhood skating rink.
• A $75,000 flood warning system has been installed at the popular Cummins Falls State Park, 75 percent higher than budgeted, in response to the death of a two-year-old boy earlier this summer. The warning system will give rangers up to two hours to evacuate the park.
• The FBI says that a former employee of cell phone insurer Asurion extorted at least $300,000 from the company by having the company pay $50,000 a day to keep him from disclosing private customer information he obtained from the company.
• Vanderbilt University will serve beer at its home football games for the first time after a rule change by the Southeastern Conference, which we’re sure won’t change the game day atmosphere at all. ?
• A man has been arrested for allegedly photographing a woman in a changing room at the H&M store in Opry Mills mall, police say.
• Tennessee ranks 18th on a list of states with the worst robocalling problem, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

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