• A new drive-thru vaccine site opens today off Murfreesboro road, offering the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) one-dose vaccine for up to 300 people each weekday.
• Metro Public Health department is also setting aside 500 vaccine slots for hospitality workers until April 13 to increase vaccination rates among the restaurant and bar industry. The city is also planning to take doses into homeless camps.
• Technology company Oracle is aiming to open a Nashville hub in the nascent “River North” development that is expected to bring thousands of jobs to the area.
• Another college student says they were almost a kidnapping victim, this time near Vanderbilt University. A similar incident was reported near Belmont, though police are not say if they are related.
• The fundraising campaign to save Exit/In has raised about 90 percent of their $200,000 goal, though it is unclear if the money would sway the seller to renegotiate. The interview sheds more light on the campaign.
• A Madison shopping center once billed as “the next Green Hills” has been sold to another developer for a little over half of what it was valued at pre-pandemic. Here is a link to the original story from 2017.
• More Nashville renters are looking to move out of the city according to an apartment hunting website, but those are offset by folks from Memphis, Chicago and Clarksville looking to move in.
• A potential fifth victim of the recent flooding has been found near Seven Mile Creek in southeast Nashville.
• If you’ve ever noticed the odd figure near a crosswalk around town, WPLN’s Curious Nashville has you covered with the backstory.
• Students at five Metro Nashville public high schools will be mentored in songwriting and business by emerging Black country artists in cooperation with the Country Music Association and the new National Museum of African American Music.
• Tennessee State University, one of Nashville’s HBCUs, is said to have been shortchanged by the State by half a billion dollars in unpaid land grant matches.
• Belmont University joined other area schools in declaring that they will offer full in-person classes this fall.
• Dolly Parton’s recording of ‘Amazing Grace’ could soon be added to the list of state songs, in case you were wondering what else the legislature was up to this session.
• The Nashville Predators (21-18-1) picked up a 3-2 shootout win over the host Detroit Red Wings (13-22-6) Tuesday night. They’ll face them again tonight in Detroit before hosting weekend games against Tampa Bay (26-11-2) and Dallas (13-14-10).
• The Nashville Public Library plans to resume in-person service at a few of its locations as a trial run for a wider opening.
• The downtown Taco Bell “Cantina” concept restaurant has opened if you’ve ever wondered what a Taco Bell that sells booze would be like.
• A summer camp for child victims of domestic violence will open in Nashville in a partnership with the MNPD.

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