• Nashville entered Phase 1 of its plan to reopen various retailers and restaurants, with establishments allowed to operate at half  capacity and with other restrictions in place. The city missed its own targets of seeing a decline in cases, but has opted to move forward anyway.
• The Tennessean has a guide to what to expect when restaurants open up tomorrow.
• Not all businesses that can open will be opening across the mid-state, with some citing concerns that they cannot comply with state and industry guidelines.
• Public Works announced 4 1/2 miles of temporary street closures in eight neighborhoods around the city to promote social distancing.
• Problems with emergency dispatch system that failed during last the May 3 storms have been addressed, the director of Metro Nashville Department of Emergency Communication said Thursday. Some calls were routed to nearby Wilson county or unanswered.
• Social distancing is particularly difficult at local parks because of the crowds wanting to get out and enjoy the spring weather.
• Professional services firm EY has opened its Neurodiversity Center for Excellence has launched a program with neurological differences with ADHD, dyslexia or autism.
• Sixty years ago this weekend, Nashville desegregated its lunch counters after three months of sit-ins from civil rights leaders.
• Saturday night the president of the Nashville NAACP had a toy practice target placed on his yard and police are investigating it as a case of possible racially motivated intimidation. The responding office dismissed his concerns, but the precinct captain has intervened.
• You can sleep easy knowing that the “murder hornets” have not been spotted in Tennessee … yet.
• The state’s school voucher program declared unconstitutional last Tuesday was dealt a second setback when the judge denied a motion to stay her ruling until appealed, effectively halting the program as it got started. The issue stems from the law applying to only two school districts, Nashville and Memphis, rather than statewide.
• Rock ‘n roll legend Little Richard died Friday of bone cancer, his publicist said of the longtime Nashville resident. He was 87.

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