• Metro Police responded to nearly 200 ‘calls for service’ on Lower Broadway last weekend, a number that isn’t too much out of the ordinary for the tourist destination.
• Tennessee is trying to overcome vaccination hesitancy among residents with a $2.5 million ad campaign built around the results of focus groups across the state. We’re near the bottom of total percent of population vaccinated.
• A Louisiana man has been arrested for allegedly making a bomb threat last month against the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which led to several floors being evacuated.
• Like them or loathe them, bachelorettes are likely to play a big part in Nashville’s post-pandemic recovery.
• Music will also play a part as organizers are looking to create an outdoor concert series to be benefit help  musicians and the community to bounce back. If approved, it would take place next spring.
• The site of a former car wash in East Nashville will be transformed into six eateries and called “The Wash” (not to be confused with Family Wash, rest in peace).
• In a separate deal, a historic home in East Nashville’s Cleveland Park could soon house a new brewery and tap room.
• The Knowles Home Assisted Living facility will likely close after the city failed to find a management company willing to take on the contract, a move that would lead to as many as 100 residents homeless.
• Zillow says the typical Nashville home price has gone up $32,000 in the last year.
• A California family is trying an unusual tactic to find a home in the mid-state: pass out flyers asking folks to sell their home to them.
• The Nashville Predators lost 5-2 in Game 1 Monday and 0-3 (two were empty-net in the final minutes) in Game 2 Wednesday to the Carolina Hurricanes in Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The series shifts to Nashville for games on Friday and Sunday.
• News Channel 5 has a write-up about the Barnes Fund, which seven non-profits use to finance and build affordable housing in the city.
• The Christmas Day bombing crippled the 911 system for sixty six emergency communications districts according to a report released by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. The bomber’s RV was parked in front of a major AT&T networking center on Second Avenue.
• Spirit Airlines has canceled its plan to move a call center from Florida to Williamson County, a move that at the time would have created 345 jobs in the region.
• Pro-tip: Don’t aim a laser at an aircraft, especially not one being flown by police officers.
• The MetroCenter campus of Watkins College of Art has been sold for $22 million to a developer, with the proceeds going to scholarships for Belmont University visual arts students. Belmont merged with Watkins last year.
• The Nashville Symphony will return to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in September to mark its 75th anniversary.
• Ride share company Uber has put Nashville as the third “most forgetful city” based on items left behind by passengers. It is unclear if it is based on where the passenger lives or (more likely) where the ride was taken.
• And finally, Nashville’s Oasis Center has a program that teaches teens how to build their own bikes.

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