A restaurant and bar affiliated with media and gambling company Barstool Sports is planned for the downtown Nashville building long home to Joe's Crab Shack.
“What design? It’s the same road with a few planters thrown down,” said David Kleinfelter, founder of Walk Bike Nashville, an activism organization working to make Nashville safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Tennessee State University leaders are looking into starting an NCAA Division I ice hockey program, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
Democrat Caleb Hemmer beat Republican Michelle Foreman in the Tuesday general election and will be the new representative for House District 59 in Nashville.
The Vanderbilt men’s basketball team has moved to the top of the 2021 SEC recruiting rankings after receiving a commitment from four-star recruit Gabe Dorsey.
Bristol Motor Speedway, the race operator seeking to renovate the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and bring NASCAR back to the city, has announced the signing of a community benefits agreement related to the project.
A Trump-appointed federal judge late Friday declared Tennessee’s new law restricting drag performances unconstitutional and halted its enforcement in Shelby County, where the case originated.
A new vice mayor will lead the Metro Council as Angie Henderson has been elected to the seat. Henderson secured 52 percent of the vote, beating incumbent Vice Mayor Jim Shulman.
Middle Tennessee State University broke ground Thursday on the school’s new Student-Athlete Performance Center — a $66 million facility to be built next to Floyd Stadium on Greenland Drive in Murfreesboro.
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Vanderbilt University has paid $5 million for the Wendy’s property that sits near its campus — a purchase that gives the institution control over a massive chunk of contiguous Midtown land and buildings.
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For the seventh straight year,
@BelmontUniv
claimed the
@OVCSports
Institutional Academic Achievement Award, which is awarded to the school with the highest percentage of eligible student-athletes with at least a 3.25 GPA.
The watch list for the 2022-23 Becky Hammon Award, which is handed out each year to the mid-major player of the year, was announced last week, and Belmont's Destinee Wells and Middle Tennessee's Savannah Wheeler made the cut.
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SEIU Local 205, a union whose members include employees from several Metro departments among other units, is endorsing Odessa Kelly in her bid to unseat longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Nashville).
The Belmont Bruins now get in-state rival Tennessee. A win Monday night and Belmont would become just the third team ever to reach the Sweet 16 as a No. 12 seed or lower.
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In Mayor John Cooper’s final budget as mayor, he is proposing no funds for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, which for years has been tasked with spearheading business recruitment and economic development efforts.
Longtime local retailer Friedman’s Army Navy Store — in operation for more than 50 years at its Hillsboro Village-area site — is slated to close on June 30.
New
@PredsNHL
forward Matt Duchene was every bit as good as advertised. Centering a line with Filip Forsberg and Mikael Granlund, Duchene notched three assists and helped the Predators claim a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Wild.
Wesley Keegan helped lead
@TailGateBrewery
through the pandemic. Now, the company is opening another location next to the Nashville Sounds stadium and expanding to Chattanooga. He's one of our CEOs of the Year:
Vanderbilt senior Christina Rosca was one of the best women’s tennis players in the country in 2019, and last week she was recognized as the Ohio Valley Regional Senior Player of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
In-N-Out Burger officials announced Tuesday the company will invest $125.5 million to establish an Eastern territory office in Franklin. In addition, In-N-Out plans to open some of its fast food restaurants in the general Nashville area by 2026.
Fisk University on Wednesday announced Corrinne Tarver, a former NCAA champion at the University of Georgia, as the new coach of what is described as the first-ever gymnastics program at a historically Black university.
Metro Councilmember Angie Henderson on Tuesday filed paperwork with local regulators allowing her to raise money for a vice mayoral campaign. Henderson has been publicly considering a campaign since last year.
The owner of
@_mlrose
has paid $2.25 million for an Inglewood commercial building and plans to open in 2024 an east side location of the restaurant and bar concept at the site.
This year, the Belmont Bruins are hoping lightning strikes twice as they’re again a No. 12 seed in the tournament, drawing No. 5-seed Oregon (21-11) in the first round on Saturday, March 19, at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville.
The light blue Oilers throwback uniforms will replace the light blue Titans jerseys as the team’s third jersey, joining the two primary options — the navy and white uniforms.
Michael Eric Dyson — a nationally recognized scholar whose work is focused on how ethnicity, religion and contemporary culture intersect, and often collide — will join the Vanderbilt University faculty.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined state Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) at Fisk University last week for a rally calling for raising the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour. See the photos from
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@VanderbiltU
officials have released a new image of their medium-term plans to reshape a part of campus fronting West End. Here's our story on the project from last October:
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Darek Bell of Corsair Artisan Distillery said his company made 250 bottles of hand sanitizer Wednesday and will produce 2,000 more over the next two days to try and meet the need.
"Nothing is too small. Do something. No matter how small. Not doing anything is not an option."
@zulfat4council
is one of our 2022 Most Powerful Women:
Justin Jones, whose protest against gun violence on the floor of the House triggered GOP fury, is eligible for the appointment. More than half of the members of the Metro Council have already said they plan to support Jones’ appointment.