- So, how about that eclipse? If you missed Monday’s event here in Nashville and don’t want to travel, it will be another 549 years before the totality comes back to town.
- Long delays awaited folks at the airport as a near-record crowd of about 68,000 travelers headed out of town in the three days after the eclipse.
- The Nashville Zoo did not get a definitive answer on how animals would behave during the eclipse on account of all the cheering people accidentally tainting their results. The goats did not faint, either.
- Would-be carjackers in East Nashville were foiled Saturday night by a manual transmission, a driver who sped off and another who threw her keys in the bushes. They stole zero cars and were arrested on an MTA bus a short time later.
- CSX, the operator of the freight trains that roll through Nashville, is having an epic summer traffic jam and it is constrainting the supply of Pringles and McDonald’s french fries, depending on where you read the news.
- The Nashville Scene‘s “Best of Nashville Awards” voting is now open, so as is per tradition, go over there and vote for the first thing that comes to your mind in each category. Las Palmas is counting on you!
- Somebody in Massachusetts won the Powerball, and it doesn’t appear anyone from Tennessee won the $1 or 2 million prize. A Louisville, Kentucky newspaper did some research on the fate of past winners and it’s not always a happy ending anyway.
- Nashville SC, a professional soccer club, will play their inaugural season at First Tennessee Park. They released some cool renderings of what that might look like.
- A retired federal judge working as an arbitrator for a Nashville law firm would like for you to know he is not racist, despite his donations to a school being turned over to a recognized hate group.
- Metro Nashville Public Schools broke ground on an $80 million renovation project at Hillsboro High School. Construction is expected to be completed by the summer of 2020.
- Google Fiber (hey, remember those guys?) made their first expansion into a residential neighborhood by opening up signups for parts of Sylvan Park. Shout-out to everyone who still has that t-shirt and isn’t using it as a dust rag.
- Affordable housing advocate and all around great Nashvillian Rev. Bill Barnes has died at the age of 86. He leaves behind a namesake housing fund and over 50 years of community service.
- US Senator and former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander says he wants the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest out of the capitol building, decades after defending its placement 40 years ago. It will still take a lot of time and paperwork for it to ever be removed.
- Italian restaurant Sole Mio on Third Avenue downtown is closing its doors after 23 years after its owner received an offer he could not pass up. There went another piece of “Old Nashville.”
Photo by Bryan Quigley.