• Happy Halloween! Be safe out there! ?
• Mayor John Cooper has halted demolition at Fairgrounds Nashville for a future MLS stadium while the city’s attorneys work through various legal filings attempting to block it.
• Tennessee State University has struggled in recent months with aging infrastructure that has left parts of the campus without power and hot water, prompting a petition to demand a partial tuition refund.
• The 100 year-old house that collapsed in East Nashville did not have any active permits on file for the renovation work occurring inside. No one was injured.
• If you are one of the few folks wondering what former mayor David Briley is up to, he’s returned to working at his former law office.
• The bear spotted in Joelton in August was again seen in Davidson County according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. No word yet if the bear has a music deal yet. ?
• In things we didn’t know, Varallo’s downtown turned 112 years old this month, making it the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Tennessee.
• The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office will discontinue its agreement with ICE to house detainees, citing it as a “hyper-political […] distraction” from the priorities of the agency.
• Some residents in nearby Clarksville have been without power for the past five days after last weekend’s strong storms.
• Despite national reports to the contrary, Vanderbilt says they are not planning to hire Jeff Fisher to coach its football team and are very much committed to Derek Mason.
• The Nashville Predators (8-3-1) beat the Chicago Blackhawks (3-6-2) 3-0 Tuesday night, riding a natural hat trick by forward Nick Bonino. The Predators host the Calgary Flames (6-6-2) tonight and the New York Rangers (4-5-1) on Saturday. ?
• Nashville will host the qualifying event in figure skating at Bridgestone Arena for the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The city last hosted the event in 1997.
• A new extended-stay hotel is on schedule, this one slated for the area between downtown and Germantown with 204 rooms and a 2020 opening.
• The Nashville Scene doesn’t agree with WSMV’s social media strategy, if you could call it that.
• PSA: This weekend is the switch to Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, so enjoy that extra hour of sleep in exchange for an earlier sunset.

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