May 4, 2023

Mayor Cooper gives State of Metro address at Bellevue’s new Lawson High School

BY ELI MOTYCKA

The extended Metro universe joined councilmembers Thursday morning at the under-construction James Lawson High School in Bellevue for Mayor John Cooper’s final State of Metro address. Three months after Cooper announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection, Nashville’s fix-it mayor declared victory on a turbulent four years.

“These past few years have been a golden age of fixing government,” Cooper told the crowd early in the speech. Since his time as a councilmember, the mayor has worked hard to associate himself with economic bedrock. He took the opportunity to rattle off metrics that reflect the city’s fiscal stability and job growth, specifically vaunting increases in staffing and pay among Metro employees.

“We have fully recovered from crisis,” said

Metro Council approves funding for new Titans stadium

BY STEPHEN ELLIOTT

Cooper later on.

He left out some of the biggest projects of his administration, despite their timeliness and relevance. The council approved the mayor’s $2.1 billion deal for a new, domed Titans stadium on the East Bank just two days ago, following 18 months of negotiations headed by the mayor’s office. Today marks a year since Cooper addressed the city from the Global Mall, a pricey real estate gamble with Vanderbilt University Medical Center that hasn’t panned out. Neither got air time during the hour-and-a-half program. Speakers, including the mayor, focused on recent lightning rods of civic identity. Faith leaders and officials nodded to expelled-and-reinstated state Rep. Justin Jones, whose district stretches from East Nashville

to Antioch. Nashville Youth Poet Laureate Lochlan Cook spoke about trans identity and gun violence in a stirring spoken-word performance. Cooper took every opportunity to commend the city’s emergency response infrastructure to loud applause — police have been a point of pride for city boosters since MNPD’s swift response during last month’s mass shooting at Covenant.

Wrapping up his remarks, Cooper thanked officials and the audience. Serving Nashville has been an honor, he said, capping a speech that landed like a victory lap for the mayor who campaigned on getting Nashville back on the right track.

According to a recent Vanderbilt poll, most people think the city’s priorities have been upside-down. More and

The Metro Council early Wednesday morning voted to approve funding to build a multibillion-dollar enclosed stadium for the Tennessee Titans.

The vote followed hours of public comment that started Tuesday evening and months of debate.

The financing structure for the $2.1 billion project includes $500 million in bonds from the state, $840 million from the Titans and the NFL and $760 million funded by Metro debt and repaid through an increase to the city’s hotel tax and sales tax redirects from the stadium and the surrounding campus. The proposal represents record public spending on a stadium. The city is also preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure for the surrounding East Bank, the development of which is necessary to pay back the debt on the future stadium.

Supporters said the deal would benefit the city in two key ways. One, it would free Metro from the yoke of the

Mayor John Cooper gives 2023 State of Metro address at Lawson High School.

PHOTO BY MATT MASTERS

Rendering of stadium

PHOTO BY TENNESSEE TITANS

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deal that brought the Titans to Nashville in the 1990s. That lease requires the city to maintain a “first-class” stadium for the Titans. The team estimates that would cost the city $1.8 billion through 2038, and the new deal lets Nashville off the hook for much of those obligations.

“Moving forward is the best — and indeed the only — way to tackle our city’s needs,” said Adolpho Birch III, chief external and league affairs officer for the Titans. “We have to do this deal.”

Opponents are skeptical of the team’s estimate, and an effort by Metro Council last year to seek an independent estimate of the cost of keeping Nissan Stadium “first-class” resulted instead in a review of the costs of the team’s desired improvements.

The other significant benefit cited by the team and its supporters is a newfound ability to draw to Nashville major events like the Super Bowl and the Final Four. While the plan is touted by tourism and other business representatives as a boon to the local economy, economists agree that public financing of sports stadiums does not provide a return to local governments.

Opponents cited a litany of reasons to oppose the deal: The city could instead be spending its time and resources on fundamental needs like infrastructure, transit, education and housing; environmental impacts of replacing Nissan Stadium are unknown; residents did not get a say in the negotiations; and the city should not trust the state’s contribution given the legislature’s current antagonism toward Nashville. Members of Metro Council who opposed the deal sought during multiple meetings to change the deal, largely

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negotiated by Mayor John Cooper and the team, including one effort to redirect portions of ticket sales to the general fund.

Local organizer Simone Boyd was among those asking for a delay.

“This deal will get better with a new mayor,” she said.

Boyd was joined those calling for a citywide vote, while noting that the bonds at the heart of the stadium deal were not eligible for one.

Added Jason Freeman, a local labor organizer: “The world doesn’t end if we walk away today.”

Several councilmembers successfully sought to extend the public hearing to allow for additional public comment from opponents to the deal.

Nearing midnight, the Metro Council started its own discussion of the proposal.

On Tuesday, councilmembers considered several more late amendments to the bill, though each was shot down. Representatives opposed to the deal offered many of the same criticisms espoused by residents.

“There is no reason for us to think this is the best version of the deal,” District 29 Councilmember Delishia Porterfield said.

But for weeks it has been clear that the stadium proposal had the necessary support among the members of the Metro Council. The final vote was 26-12 in favor, and a long-short effort to reconsider the decision was unsuccessful.

“This is the right deal at the right time,” said District 27 Councilmember Robert Nash. This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

more think the city’s on the wrong track, critical of flashy downtown items like the stadium that many believe have come at the expense of education, housing and transportation.

Cooper, meanwhile, is halfway out the door. Press got 100 words on Metro’s environmental sustainability photo contest last month but no release for today’s readymade PR spectacle — a sign that, five months from transition, the administration has started to disintegrate. Comms staffers are already jumping ship, with Brandon Marshall moving to Houston and TJ

Ducklo eyeing a possible return to the Biden campaign team.

Cooper is more than ready to leave the job for someone else, judging by a noticeably breezier demeanor and rumors from City Hall. He took Thursday to paint a legacy for himself based on responsible government stewardship, steady progress and general economic growth. Now he will watch a growing pack of wannabe successors fight over the city’s less savory pieces before inheriting them in the fall.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

MNPD searching for suspect in $40,000 theft from Green Hills Mall

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An arrest warrant has been issued against a 22-year-old man who police say was one of three people involved in the theft of more than $40,000 of luxury bags from the Louis Vuitton store in the Green Hills Mall on April 10.

According to an MNPD news release, Jamichael Alexander is wanted for the crime which already saw the arrest of 21-year-old Jayona Brown, who was charged with felony theft, and 27-year-old Angela S. Simpson,

who was charged with organized retail crime.

Police said that the incident occurred around 4:15 p.m. when five people entered the store and cut or ripped the bags from the security wires before fleeing the scene.

That stolen merchandise was then posted for sale online shortly by an account that police said was linked to Alexander.

Police ask that anyone with information about Alexander or his whereabouts call Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.

Jamichael Alexander, Jayona Brown, Angela Simpson PHOTO COURTESY OF MNPD

Crowd gathers at Lawson High School in Bellevue for State of Metro address.

PHOTO BY MATT MASTERS

Mayor John Cooper at a Titans game in 2019

PHOTO BY MICHAEL W. BUNCH/METRO

Franklin Alderman facing 25 ethics complaints, threatens to have reporter ‘arrested’

BY MATT MASTERS

25 formal ethics complaints had been filed against Franklin Alderman At Large Gabrielle Hanson following her inaccurate comments about The Covenant School shooting which sparked public outrage.

More than a dozen of those complaints requested her removal from office, either by resignation or expulsion.

As previously reported, those comments made on a podcast and radio show included Hanson’s theory about the motive of the March 27 Covenant School shooting, a theory that the Metro Nashville Police Department called “false.”

Franklin City Administrator Eric Stuckey addressed the city’s process for dealing with ethics complaints during the April 25 Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting.

The City has an ethics ordinance and an Ethics Commission who will hold a public hearing on the complaints at 5 p.m. on June 20.

Hanson also has 30 days to provide a response to those complaints if she chooses to do so.

“From there, it is up to the [Ethics] Commission in terms of if they have any findings or recommendation for the Board,” Stuckey said. “There is not a

specific timeline for them and their process, just that they need to hold the public hearing in 60 days and that it is up to them in terms of any findings they might have, and how that is forwarded on to the Board for consideration.”

One Franklin resident also called for her removal from BOMA during a public comments section of the meeting.

Following the meeting, The News attempted to get a comment from Hanson inside of the BOMA chambers about MNPD calling her theory about the school shooting “false,” but she ignored the question.

When The News attempted a second time to get a comment from Hanson, this time in the City Hall parking lot away from other BOMA members, Hanson replied with “I will have you arrested.”

When asked what would be the cause of an arrest, Hanson said, “Harassment.”

Hanson made the comments while walking on public property to her vehicle with her husband, away from any Franklin Police Department officers who worked security at the meeting. She did not file a police report or any verbal complaint to any police officer.

ThThe full recorded audio of that public

exchange was posted online where it drew further condemnation of Hanson. The recording can be heard on our webiste, thenewstn.com.

FPD did not return a request for comment on Hanson’s threat of arrest, but it should be noted that The News has a professional working relationship with FPD, and there was never any actual risk of arrest.

The News also reached out to Hanson’s fellow BOMA members, and while they did not speak directly to Hanson’s statement threatening arrest, some did comment on the general growing concern over Hanson’s continued comments.

“Alderman Hanson’s actions and comments are hers and do not represent the City,” Mayor Ken Moore said. “We continue to grieve with the Covenant families.”

“We have many important issues impacting our community in Franklin that I wish to focus on,” Alderman Jason Baggett said in an email. “Alderman Hanson has chosen to speak publicly on topics unrelated to our role as Aldermen. While I seriously question the wisdom of her statements, we must follow our ordinances regarding ethics complaints and ensure a fair review so we can then turn our attention to the more

pressing issues of the City.”

“Alderman Hanson’s comments over the past month have been incredibly disheartening,” Alderman Matt Brown said in an email. “They are not reflective of my values nor do I believe they reflect the values of this amazing city that I love.

“To the thousands that belong to the Church of the City, Alderman Hanson’s statements regarding our church are an unfounded and unwarranted attack on our leadership and all stakeholders. They are also dismissive of the invaluable work our church is doing to serve our community –supporting ministries like Graceworks and One Gen Away, creating space and services for foster children and families, and investing in much needed resources to address our mental health crisis. I would never have imagined that an elected official in Franklin, Tennessee, would slander a church because of a vote on an agenda item.

“Out of respect for the Ethics Commission and its process, I am going to hold on making further comments at this time. In the meantime, it is my hope that we, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, can focus our attention on the many important issues in front of us.”

‘Let’s finish the job’ — Biden launches campaign for second term

BY BILL FREEMAN

President Joe Biden has announced that he is seeking a second term as president of the United States, encouraging Americans to continue righting the ship after Trump’s tumultuous and damaging administration. “Let’s finish the job,” said President Biden in his campaign announcement.

During his first three years in office, Biden has accomplished more than nearly any president in recent history. As NPR recently reported: “Biden’s policies have largely been popular, including climate and health care measures in the Inflation Reduction Act, and bipartisan spending bills on infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing. That’s helped him to make a strong case for himself for 2024, said Democratic strategist Lis Smith, an adviser to Pete Buttigieg in his 2020 bid. ‘Joe Biden has had one of the most successful first two years of any president in recent history,’ Smith said. ‘He has been dismissed and discounted at every turn, and still overperformed expectations.’”

President Biden’s accomplishments in the White House have stabilized our economy and built strong international partnerships. Simply put, his plan is working. As The New York Times reported last month, “Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, rose at 1.1 percent annual rate in the first quarter, according to preliminary data released by the Commerce Department,” going on to note

“a third straight quarter of growth.” Writes the Times’ Ben Casselman, “Consumers have been buoyed by a strong job market and rising wages,” which means that Americans feel stable and are willing to spend their earnings on goods and services.

Biden’s stable economic goals are mirrored in his foreign policy. “Fix what’s broken” could easily be his motto. CNN recently described his successes at home and abroad: “The president’s tenure in office so far has been marked by key triumphs for his colossal policy agenda, including successfully pushing forward and compromising on a broad set of legacy-making, high pricetag

priorities with Congress that addressed funding for the COVID-19 pandemic, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, bolstering domestic semiconductor chip production, and addressing climate change. And under Biden’s watch, the US has attempted to undo Trump’s legacy of diplomacy operating through a nationalist lens, returning to global agreements and reinforcing partnerships with allies who had been jilted by his predecessor.”

Far-right MAGA extremists have complained that Joe Biden is too old to run again. Biden addressed this before his campaign launch, saying he took “a hard look” at his age and determined with his physicians that he is fit to remain in office.

When asked by ABC News chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce about his age and a potential Biden-Trump matchup, Biden responded, “I know him well, and I know the danger he presents to our democracy.” The simple fact of the matter is that Biden is only three years older than Trump. That’s hardly a dramatic difference in age. If we’re going to express concern about age, that question impacts both parties in this election. Far more important to consider are our leaders’ morality and proven capability.

After all, the thought of a second Trump administration inspires dread in the hearts of many Americans — and not simply those progressives who stand on the far left. As AP News described it: “Few things have unified Democratic voters like the prospect of Trump returning to power. And Biden’s political standing within his party stabilized after Democrats notched a stronger-thanexpected performance in last year’s midterm elections. The president is set to run again on the same themes that buoyed his party last fall.”

Politico also commented on the growing bipartisan opposition to a potential Trump campaign. “[Biden’s] team believes the electoral map remains tilted in his favor.

In 2020, he won back the Great Lakes trio of states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that Trump swiped four years earlier and Biden has relentlessly campaigned in those states, touting his middle class roots and union support. And Democrats believe that suburban dismay at Trump’s behavior and some extreme Republican positions on issues like abortion and guns could slide new battleground states like Georgia and Arizona in the president’s column.”

“This is not a time to be complacent,” says President Biden in his campaign announcement. “That’s why I am running for re-election — because I know America. I know we’re good and decent people. I know we’re still a country that believes in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity.”

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Bill Freeman is the owner of FW Publishing, the publishing company that produces the Nashville Scene, Nfocus, the Nashville Post and The News.

President Joe Biden OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY CAMERON SMITH

Tennessee education commissioner to step down

BY KELSEY BEYELER

Tennessee’s education commissioner Penny Schwinn announced Monday that she will be stepping down. Appointed by Gov. Bill Lee in 2019, Schwinn has led the state’s education department through its COVID-19 response, a new education funding formula, the governor’s controversial Education Savings Account program and more — though she’s faced significant criticism along the way.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have voiced concern about Scwhinn and her leadership of the department. Notably, Tennessee Republicans expressed frustration that Schwinn didn’t collaborate with them enough or properly adhere to certain state processes. In 2020, Chalkbeat Tennessee reported that lawmakers were upset about a $2.5 million voucher-related contract that the TDOE pushed through without a competitive bid process or legislative review. They also criticized Scwinn’s plan for a million-dollar program that would’ve checked on students at home during the pandemic. (That program never happened.) In 2021, some raised questions about a conflict of interest surrounding an $8 million contract with an education group that Scwhinn’s husband worked for.

Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds will replace Schwinn as education commissioner this summer. With a background in education policy at both the state and federal levels, Gonzalez Reynolds is currently vice president of policy for ExcelinEd, a nonpartisan, provoucher education think tank founded by Jeb Bush.

“Lizzette’s significant education policy expertise and leadership make her well-suited to continue our work to deliver a highquality education and expand school choice for Tennessee students,” Lee said in a press release. “I welcome her to Tennessee and appreciate her service to students, families and teachers across the state.”

Schwinn will step down at the end of the current school year. The TDOE’s current deputy commissioner of operations, Sam Pearcy, will serve as the interim education commissioner until Gonzalez Reynolds begins on July 1.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

Gov. Bill Lee and education commissioner Penny Schwinn in January 2021

PHOTO BY THERESA MONTGOMERY VIA THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE

Nashville man and his mother convicted in Jan. 6 insurrection

BY MATT MASTERS

A Nashville man and his mother have been found guilty of federal charges for their role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

32-year-old Nashvillian Eric Gavelek Munchel and 59-year-old Lisa Marie Eisenhart, of Woodstock, Ga., were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit obstruction and obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, as well as entering and remaining in a gallery of Congress, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Munchel was also found guilty of two additional felonies, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and unauthorized possession of a deadly or dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds.

A sentencing hearing for the duo is set for Sept. 8.

As previously reported, Munchel, a Nashville bartender, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Nashville on Jan 10, 2021, after internet sleuths helped to identify him just hours after the riot that saw supporters of President Trump leave a Trump rally in Washington D.C. and storm the Capitol.

This was due, in part, to a widelycirculated photograph by Getty Images Photojournalist Win McNamee which showed Munchel wearing a tactical vest with a Tennessee state “thin blue line” patch and carrying plastic restraint zip ties and a holstered taser, earning him the name “Ziptie guy” online.

Prosecutors said in a Department of Justice news release that Munchel stole those plastic restraints from a closet inside

of the Capitol.

“As they approached the Capitol building, they saw other rioters fighting with police and encouraged them to do so. They experienced police wearing body armor and using chemical irritants and gas to repel rioters like themselves, but they were not deterred. Instead, even though they were aware their actions were unlawful, they pushed forward, past police lines, and entered the Capitol building. Once inside, they penetrated all the way to the Senate Gallery,” the news release reads.

“While inside the Senate and carrying the stolen restraints, Munchel and Eisenhart wondered aloud where the ‘traitors’ and ‘cowards’—meaning the Senators—had gone. Later, both Munchel and Eisenhart gave statements to a reporter in which they acknowledged that their actions were intended to intimidate Congress.”

While the protest-turned-riot involved thousands of people, hundreds of people stormed the building, breaking in and looting and vandalizing the building while fighting police. One police officer was killed by rioters, while dozens more were injured.

Police also killed one woman who was recorded charging the interior of the building with a group as the Senate was in session certifying the 2020 election.

The FBI has asked that anyone with information on participants of the Jan. 6 insurrection or connected plots of violence, including the placement of two pipe bombs in the nation’s capital, contact the FBI at tips.fbi.gov.

Feds move to block Tennessee’s youth trans health care ban

BY HANNAH HERNER

The U.S. Department of Justice stepped in Wednesday in an attempt to block a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. The American Civil Liberties Union and others brought a lawsuit against the state last week on behalf of families with transgender children, including one Nashville family.

The DOJ is asking the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee to issue an immediate order to prevent the law from going into effect on July 1. The ban violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause by “discriminating on the basis of both sex and transgender status,” the department said in a press release.

As written, the law prohibits doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone treatment and surgeries to transgender youth. It also provides a path for parents

to sue if the care happened without their consent and for people who received genderaffirming care as minors to sue their medical providers as adults.

“Left unchallenged, it would prohibit transgender children from receiving health care that their medical providers and their parents have determined to be medically necessary,” Henry Leventis, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, said in the release. “In doing so, the law seeks to substitute the judgment of trained medical professionals and parents with that of elected officials and codifies discrimination against children who already face far too many obstacles.”

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Gov. Bill Lee released statements standing by the ban.

“The federal government has joined

the ACLU and an elite New York law firm in attacking a bipartisan law that protects children from irreversible harm,” Skrmetti said in a statement (three House Democrats joined supermajority Republicans in supporting the bill, while no Senate Democrats voted for it). “I welcome the opportunity to litigate these issues and vigorously defend Tennessee’s law.”

Lee tweeted in support of Skrmetti: “Tennessee is committed to protecting children from permanent, life-altering decisions. This is federal overreach at its worst, and we will work with Attorney General Skrmetti to push back in court and stand up for children.”

The law was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) as SB1. He was among the legislators who stood in front of a crowd at an anti-trans

rally in October and pledged to file such a bill. Lee signed HB1/SB1 into law on March 2.

Tennessee is one of 11 states that has proposed a law limiting gender-affirming care for trans youth, but two states, Alabama and Arkansas, are ahead of Tennessee in the process. In 2021, Arkansas passed a similar law, and the ACLU sued. The case is ongoing. In 2022, Alabama was the first to make providing gender-affirming medical treatment a felony in the state. The U.S. Department of Justice promptly challenged the law, and eventually a judge ruled to allow hormones and puberty blockers but not surgeries.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

Photos made public by the FBI show Eric Gavelek Munchel and his mother Lisa Marie Eisenhart taking part in the Jan. 6, 2020, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Eric Gavelek Munchel and his mother Lisa Marie Eisenhart PHOTO BY MNPD

AB Hillsboro Village hosts prom for Nashville Christian School teen

BY MARGARET LITTMAN

When Nashville Christian School senior B Hayes showed up to their prom, held at the Loveless Barn, they were turned away. That’s because they were wearing a suit, rather than a dress as the school dictated. Hayes, who uses he/they pronouns, posted about it on social media.

And then, social media did what it sometimes does — amplified the story for the greater good. Soon, a number of Nashvillians started thinking about how they could give Hayes the quintessential teen experience, including Marcie Allen Van Mol and her husband Derek Van Mol; Allison Holley, owner of Apple & Oak; popular social media figure agirlhasnopresident; and others.

AB Hillsboro Village, in the former home of Anzie Blue, recently opened after pivoting from a restaurant to an event space. The new AB is a 150-seat (250-capacity when standing) venue, already booked with film festivals, public concerts, comedy shows and record label events — and now, a prom.

While Hayes didn’t make their post intending to find an alternative prom, after speaking with Marcie, they accepted the offer for an inclusive prom for 25 of their friends.

“It’s been amazing to see so many people share, like and comment on my post,” says Hayes, who was allowed to wear a suit to prom in the past, but not this year. “I never imagined it would get this amount of attention.” (Nashville Christian School did not return calls for comment about its dress code requirements.)

“Knowing that, not only the Nashville community is behind me, but people all over the country are supporting the issue, is incredible to see,” Hayes adds. “I hope the awareness can bring about positive change and that more students in the future feel strong enough to stand up for freedom of expression.”

The Van Mols are Nashville natives who reimagined AB Hillsboro Village as a place for locals. “AB is more than just a music venue,” Marcie says. “It’s a community space that welcomes everyone. We wanted to create a place where artists can host underplay shows, album release events and livestreams. It’s important that AB is inclusive and open to all, and we’re excited to see the space come to life with a variety of programming, both in-house and through private events.”

The plan is to offer events five nights a week, and venue’s location on Belcourt Avenue is close to both public transportation and ample parking.

AB Hillsboro Village already had two nights on the books for ticketed shows featuring R&B artist Tone Stith. Stith agreed to turn one of those nights into a prom gig instead. Holley created a GoFundMe campaign to help fund the efforts to pull together an “over the top” (in Marcie’s words) prom in a matter of days. Funds will cover the contributions of small-business owners coming through with decor, food, mocktails, a photo booth and more. Any additional funds will be split equally and donated to Hayes’ charities of choice, Inclusion Tennessee and Oasis Center.

“You know, I am an event planner,” Marcie says. “I am ‘go big or go home.’” She is currently waiting for Hayes to sign off on the evening’s theme.

The way in which Hayes’ story went viral and the way in which people have reached out to help buoyed Derek’s spirits after several difficult weeks in Nashville. “It showed me that there are still good people in the world.”

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Scene.

The City of Forest Hills, Tennessee, hereby provides certain financial information for the Fiscal Year 20222023 budget in accordance with the requirements of Tennessee Code Annotated Title 6, Chapter 56, Section 206. There will be a public hearing concerning the budget at City Hall on May 18, 2023 at 5:00 PM during the regularly scheduled meeting. City Hall is located at 6300 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN. All citizens are welcome to participate. The budget and all supporting data are public record and are available for public inspection by anyone on the City Website: www.cityofforesthills.com or at City Hall located at 6300 Hillsboro Pike. Questions, comments, and concerns should be directed to 615-372-8677.

Nashville Christian School student B. Hayes outside of the school’s prom at the Loveless Barn PHOTO FROM HAYES’ INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

Five takeaways following Titans’ 2023 draft

BY JOHN GLENNON

In the end, there was only one way to describe the Titans’ 2023 draft class: offensive.

That’s not to suggest it was a bad haul, as the Titans’ six-player contingent received primarily positive reviews — an “A” from Pro Football Focus, “A-“ from NFL.com and an “A-“ from The Sporting News, for instance.

It’s just that, for the first time since the NFL went to seven-round drafts in 1994, the Titans made all their selections on one side of the ball: Northwestern offensive lineman Peter Skoronski (first round); Kentucky quarterback Will Levis (second round); Tulane running back Tyjae Spears (third round); Cincinnati tight end Josh Whyle (fifth round); Maryland offensive tackle Jaelyn Duncan (sixth round); and UT Martin receiver Colton Dowell (seventh round).

“It honestly just dawned on me about 30 minutes ago that it was all offense,” Titans general manager Ran Carthon said Saturday after the draft. “We were just playing the board and every time you came up at a pick — I guess the way it was stacked and it was ranked — your eyes went to the left [toward offensive players] and the way our board is constructed.

“Healthy conversation on every pick. Everyone that we took off the board, at wherever we took them, we felt convicted. It just so happened to be all offense but it wasn’t a designed plan or anything.”

It may not have been a designed plan, but the Titans’ emphasis on offense couldn’t hurt after last year’s anemic output on that side of the ball. Tennessee finished 2022 ranked 30th in overall offensive yardage, 30th in passing yardage, 13th in run yardage and 28th in average points per game (17.5).

Here are five quick takeaways following the draft, as well as a closer look at the three players the team selected on Saturday:

Potential over past for Levis? There’s probably nothing that gets a fan base as fired up — pro or con — as a quarterback picked in an early round. Levis’ 2022 season at Kentucky was not inspiring, marked by inconsistency due — at least in part — to a poor surrounding cast and injuries. That’s why he slid straight out of the first round. But the Titans believe that in time, they can refine the high potential of the strong-armed 6-3, 229-pound quarterback. If he becomes a good starter, plenty of Titans fans will forget about the doubts they had. If not, Titans fans will be doubly upset — angry that the Titans drafted Levis, and angry the team surrendered draft capital (including potential opportunities to pick needed wide receivers) in order to grab Levis.

Still questions at wide receiver. The Titans entered the draft with one of the thinnest and least productive wide-receiver groups in the NFL, and 29 receivers were chosen before Tennessee picked Dowell in the

seventh round. There’s upside to Dowell, as he has size (6-3, 215), speed (he said he ran a 4.40 40-yard dash leading up to the draft) and he fared well against higher-level defenses last season. But keep in mind that productive seventh-round selections in the NFL at any position are the exception to the rule. So the Titans will certainly continue to upgrade the wide-receiver corps via free agency, trades or undrafted free agents. Remember that the Titans traded for Julio Jones in June of 2021, for instance, though that move did not produce anywhere near the desired results.

Spears may be the main man at running back in 2024. Assuming Spears pushes his way ahead of Hassan Haskins and Julius Chestnut on the running back depth chart, he’ll likely play a role similar to that of Dontrell Hilliard in 2022 — giving Derrick Henry breaks and serving as a third-down back. But if Henry moves on after 2023 (the last year of his contract), Carthon made it clear he thinks the 5-10, 201-pound Spears is a three-down back. Sure, Spears had an ACL tear back in 2020 (and reportedly no longer has an ACL in his right knee), but that certainly didn’t slow him last year at Tulane, where he averaged 6.9 yards per carry — totaling 1,581 yards and 19 touchdowns on the ground, while adding 256 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns.

A sigh of relief at offensive line. The

Titans’ offensive line was an injury-riddled mess for most of last season, leaving the team with a starting unit of Dennis Daley, Aaron Brewer, Corey Levin, Jordan Roos and Nicholas Petit-Frere for the season finale. In addition, three veteran starters — left tackle Taylor Lewan, center Ben Jones and right guard Nate Davis — are no longer with the Titans. But the Titans continued to refortify the line in the draft, as Skoronski should be a lock to start at either left tackle or left guard. Duncan is a big, athletic prospect, even if he needs to gain strength and better his technique. The Titans had previously added likely starters Andre Dillard and Daniel Brunskill via free agency.

Defensive confidence. Even if it was simply a case of the Titans finding better offensive than defensive players at six straight picks, the fact the team didn’t feel urgency to bolster the defense showed Tennessee’s confidence in that side of the ball. The Titans did lose players like David Long, DeMarcus Walker and Bud Dupree during the offseason. But the defense will be bolstered by the return from injury of Harold Landry, the return to complete health of Jeffery Simmons, and the addition of free agents like Arden Key and Azeez Al-Shaair. Side note: If the Titans had any intention of trading Kevin Byard, surely they would have made drafting a safety one of their priorities. This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

Will Levis

Peter Skoronski

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2023 NFL Draft: Five Vols taken in first three rounds, local high school alums ink UDFA deals

BY LOGAN BUTTS

Several players with Tennessee ties were selected during the 2023 NFL Draft over the weekend, while even more found homes as undrafted free agents.

With the three-day, seven-round affair in the books, let’s take a look at the landing spots for local college and high school alums.

TENNESSEE

Tennessee was nearly the only college in the state to have someone’s name called at the 2023 NFL Draft. Five Vols were taken in the first three rounds, including four players taken in a 10-pick stretch in the third round, a fitting cap to the program’s most successful

season in 20 years.

Offensive tackle Darnell Wright was the first Vol off the board, going 10th overall to the Chicago Bears. The first-team All-SEC lineman will potentially slot in as a day-one starter protecting quarterback Justin Fields.

The third round saw a slew of Vols taken in a row, with quarterback Hendon Hooker landing with the Detroit Lions (pick 68), wide receivers Jalin Hyatt and Cedric Tillman going back-to-back at 73 and 74 to the New York Giants and Cleveland Browns, respectively, and defensive end Byron Young being selected by the Los Angeles Rams at pick 77.

Belmont adds UNC transfer Shaver

BY LOGAN BUTTS

Belmont men’s basketball made a step toward shoring up its frontcourt on Tuesday by adding North Carolina transfer Will Shaver through the portal.

The 6-10 forward played in just three games last season for the Tar Heels as a redshirt freshman, suiting up against Alabama, Virginia Tech, and The Citadel.

The Birmingham, Alabama native enrolled early at UNC, joining the program in January 2022 and joining the team on its trip to the 2022 national championship game.

“Will possesses the combination of size and skill our coaching staff loves, and that has thrived in our program’s history,” Belmont men’s basketball head coach Casey

Alexander said in a news release.

At Oak Mountain High School in Alabama, Shaver 16 points and 10 rebounds per game. He earned two all-state honors and led Oak Mountain to the 2021 7A state title.

“Will gives us offensive flexibility; allowing us to play our traditional four-out, one-in or showcase his shooting ability on the perimeter and stretch the floor. Will is hungry, driven and will make us better immediately. Now with Will and Win Miller, it is exciting to have two of the best players out of Birmingham in recent years.”

Shaver joins former Ensworth star and Vanderbilt transfer Malik Dia as frontcourt additions for Belmont this offseason.

The five players selected matches Tennessee’s total from last season. But only two of the 2022 selections came within the top 80 picks, while all five of the 2023 draftees coming off the board by pick 77.

Three more Vols have signed undrafted free agent deals: Nashville native and LaVergne alum Princeton Fant, a tight end/ fullback hybrid, signed with the Dallas Cowboys; offensive lineman Jerome Carvin, a Memphis native, is joining the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs; and linebacker Jeremy Banks, also a Memphis native, inked with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Offensive lineman LaTrell Bumphus (New York Giants) and punter Paxton Brooks (Indianapolis Colts) were invited to rookie minicamps.

LOCAL COLLEGES

The only other player from a local college selected in the 2023 NFL Draft didn’t have very far to travel.

UT-Martin wide receiver Colton Dowell, a Wilson Central alum, was drafted by the Titans in the seventh round at pick 228. Dowell caught 177 passes for the Skyhawks, compiling a school-record 2,706 yard and 19 touchdowns.

Dowell’s teammate John H. Ford II, an Overton alum and the 2022 OVC Defensive Player of the Year, is still awaiting a landing spot.

For the second season in a row, Vanderbilt did not have a player drafted, which is fairly surprising considering Anfernee Orji, the SEC’s leading tackler last season, was eligible. The linebacker signed an undrafted free agent deal with the New Orleans Saints.

However, a former ‘Dore was taken in the third round. After four years at Vanderbilt, Tyler Steen transferred to Alabama for the 2022 season, earning AllSEC honors. He was taken 65th overall by the Philadelphia Eagles

Cornerback Jeremy Lucien signed with the Baltimore Ravens, while safety Maxwell Worship was invited to the Titans rookie minicamp. Tight end and Brentwood Academy alum Gavin Schoenwald is still looking for a deal.

Other local college alums to land training camp or UDFA deals so far are:

Izaiah Gathings, WR, MTSU New York Jets

Jordan Ferguson, DE, MTSU Seattle Seahawks

NASHVILLE-AREA PREP ALUMS

While no local high school alums were drafted this season, a handful have signed undrafted free agent deals thus far:

Matthew Jackson, LB, Hillsboro (Eastern Kentucky) - Tennessee Titans

Henry Byrd, OT, Ensworth (Princeton) - Denver Broncos

Devious Christmon, DB, Centennial (Bethel) - Indianapolis Colts rookie minicamp

Former Franklin and Ohio State tight end/ fullback Mitch Rossi has yet to sign a deal.

Colton Dowell PHOTO COURTESY OF UT-MARTIN ATHLETICS

Harpeth Hall hosts mid-state’s best track and field athletes at Great Eight Invite

BY LOGAN BUTTS

The top track and field athletes from Middle Tennessee gathered at annual Great Eight Invitational at Harpeth Hall on a rainy Thursday night.

The top eight competitors across each TSSAA-sanctioned track and field event regardless of classification are invited to compete against each other at the yearly event. This year’s meet saw a number of impressive performances and competitive races.

Read the winners below and visit TheNewsTN.com for the full results including the placements of student-athletes from Lipscomb Academy, Father Ryan, Franklin Road Academy, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Ensworth, Nashville Christian School, Harpeth Hall, Montgomery Bell Academy, Overton, and more.

*Indicates the top time in Tennessee this season.

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Boys Pole Vault Canon Kinder Brentwood High School

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Girls Discus Throw Mensi Stiff 1Brentwood Academy 151-10

Boys Discus Throw Drake Carlson Father Ryan High School 181-6

Girls Long Jump Xarya Udoumana Rockvale High School 18-0.50

Boys Long Jump Sterling Weldon Nolensville High School

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Girls High Jump Ally Beneke Warren Co. High School 5-7*

Boys High Jump Lewis Lagrant Rockvale High School 6-8

Girls Shot Put Mensi Stiff Brentwood Academy 50-6.25

Boys Shot Put Drake Carlson Father Ryan High School 59-11.75*

Girls Triple Jump Ryan Moore

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BGA’s Miller Mabury

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Cheekwood to host classic car exhibit for Father’s Day weekend

Cheekwood Estate & Gardens announced the return of Exposition of Elegance: Classic Cars at Cheekwood for Father’s Day weekend.

The exhibit will take place on Saturday, June 17, and Sunday, June 18, with tickets on sale now.

Exposition of Elegance will display classic

Bluebird Cafe to host Celebrating The Eras open house alongside Taylor Swift’s Nashville tour stops

BY LOGAN BUTTS

cars from the early to mid-twentieth century throughout the grounds.

The weekend will also feature live music, including barbershop quarter High Gravity, The Lakes Brass Quintet, and DJ’s “Church of Boogie.” There will also be local food and drink vendors on location.

Before the international fame, armfuls of Grammys, and millions of albums sold, Taylor Swift was discovered at the iconic Green Hills music venue The Bluebird Cafe in 2004.

14 years later, Swift returned for a surprise performance with Grammy-winning songwriter Craig Wiseman as part of the filming for a documentary celebrating The Bluebird Cafe’s 35th anniversary.

Now, in conjunction with Swift’s highly anticipated Eras tour coming to Nashville, The Bluebird is hosting Open House: Celebrating The Eras.

The cafe will be open for special daytime hours on May 5, 6, and 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for pre-show festivities including daily giveaways, a photo station, and more. The event is free, and no tickets are required. Doors open at 10 a.m. each day.

Five free and cheap family things to do in middle Tennessee

BY AMANDA HAGGARD

As May descends, festival season has kicked up. The first weekend in May offers chances at checking out some music, flower-crown-making, and early Mother’s Day celebrating.

JazzFest, a staple of the downtown festivals in Murfreesboro, is moving north, but still lining up a weekend full of free music. The May Day Festival at Capitol View offers the chance to dress up in some ‘70s attire. Over in Williamson County, there’s music from a community chorus and

a Mom & Me event at the mall. And then there’s the Tennessee Craft Fair, which is the place to see the best of our state’s craft artists.

As part of our series on free and cheap things to do with the family, here is our weekly roundup of places to spend time together over the next week:

JAZZFEST AT THE FOUNTAINS

JazzFest, which was formerly held in downtown Murfreesboro, is moving to The Fountains at Gateway on the northside of

town. The free event includes music from school bands and professional players. It begins on Saturday, May 6 and runs through May 7, and the parking just has to be better in the new location.

MOM & ME

In Franklin on May 6, Cool Springs Galleria is hosting a Mother’s Day Mom & Me celebration for moms and their children. Beginning at noon at the mural behind Sbarro in the mall, there will be several activities, including food, a braid and curl bar, mini makeovers, bracelet station, nail painting, kids DJ, a visit from Anna and Elsa and more. There’s also the chance to win a $400 gift basket full of goodies for mom and crew.

MAY DAY FESTIVAL

Celebrate the arrival of spring at May Day Festival at Capitol View in downtown Nashville. The free event includes live music, street vendors, food trucks and more. This iteration is a ‘70s themed block party with music from Jenny Rae, Bella Rose, Dancing Divas & Dudes, Spazmatics, and Sorry, Peach. In addition to great tunes, the day will have a flower-crown-making activity

booth, face painting, balloon animals, a hair-braiding station and May Day themed photo booths. Help the kiddos into their bell bottoms and pack them into the car.

COMMUNITY CHORUS SPRING CONCERT

The Williamson County Community Chorus is hosting its Spring Concert 2023 on May 7 at 3 p.m. The show is at the Williamson County Enrichment Center and is free. Come hear what your neighbors are singing about.

52ND ANNUAL SPRING TENNESSEE CRAFT FAIR

Tennessee Craft is hosting its 52nd Annual Spring Tennessee Craft Fair at Centennial Park. The longstanding fair includes artists from across the nation, who will exhibit their handmade crafts on the Great Lawn adjacent to the Parthenon. There, artists will showcase everything from clay, jewelry and leather to wood, glass and painting. The fair includes a tent just for kids that offers guided art activities made from everyday materials. The event is free.

2022 Exposition of Elegance PHOTO COURTESY OF CHEEKWOOD ESTATE & GARDENS

Headline Homes: March 2023

BY AMANDA HAGGARD

Rarely do I read through a list of fancy amenities on a Headline Home and feel absolute joy for the person who gets to live there. But this month when I read that John Prine and Fiona Whelan had a gorgeous walk-in shower and tub, it was the closest I ever got. The late Prine shared this home with his wife Fiona. It sold for more than $4 million, as did every other house on this month’s list.

The priciest abode sold in March is the now-former home of Harrison Frist Jr., CEO at naviHealth and eldest son of former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and his wife Ashley. It sold for almost $8 million, and they paid a little more than that earlier this year for their new home. What’s an extra $300,000 for a spiffy new place?

Below are March’s top 10 home sales in Nashville and the surrounding counties, ranked by sale price. We’ve decided to remove street numbers from the listings.

1. Canterbury Drive, Nashville 37205

Buyers: John and Renee Hawkins

Sale price: $7,925,000

Sellers: William Harrison Frist Jr. and Ashley Frist

Sellers’ agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich & Clark Realty

Buyers’ agent: Timothy King, French King Fine Properties

Harrison Frist Jr., CEO at naviHealth and eldest son of former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and his wife Ashley, bought the highest dollar home on the December 2022 list and they’ve now sold their former home and made the top of the list for March. The home was purchased by John and Renee Hawkins, who endow a business scholarship at Vanderbilt University. This 8,000-square-foott classic “Belle Meade beauty” is on an interior street with a private back yard and guest house. The main home includes four bedrooms, six baths and the guest house adds an additional 600 square feet of living space.

2. Concord Road, Brentwood 37027

Buyer: Alberto Forero

Sale price: $5,936,000

Seller: Concord Property LLC

Seller’s agent: William T. McLemore, McLemore Auction Company, LLC

Buyer’s agent: William Shaar, Realty of America

This home was sold to Alberto Forero at live auction for almost $6 million. It includes three gated entrances to the property and the home is almost 11,000 square feet with a 1,700-square-foot guest house and 4,000-square-foot entertainment building. The house includes crystal chandeliers, and the freestanding entertainment space came with a sound and lighting system. These days, all that square footage almost makes it seem like a bargain.

3. Bethesda Road, Thompsons Station 37179

Buyer: Rosalia Anne Butera, 2018 Living Trust

Sale price: $5,890,000

Sellers: David M. and Tara N. Hays

Sellers’ agent: Jennifer B. Watson, Exit Truly Home Realty

Buyer’s agent: Tyler King, Benchmark Realty, LLC

The listing calls this modern home on more than 10 acres in Thompsons Station “the entertainer’s dream and functional for families.” The home has five bedrooms, eight-and-a-half bathrooms, a home theater, basement bar and a bonus room with its own wet bar. There’s also a room above the four-car garage, two laundry rooms, an elevator and a large screened in porch. If all that sounds overwhelming, head on over to the home’s safe room for a quick bunker moment. There’s also an unfinished basement gym area that could easily be expanded into more safe room space or a larger gym. On the 10 acres, there’s a black metal barn (hell yeah), a heated saltwater pool and a stocked pond.

4. Lewisburg Pike, Franklin 37064

Buyers: Perry S. and Janis L. Schonfeld

Sale price: $5,002,600

Seller: Jerry Owens

Seller’s agent: Alice Charron, Keller Williams Realty

Buyers’ agent: Marabeth Poole, PARKS

This home also has a private pond and lots of acreage: The property includes more than eight acres and is four miles from downtown Franklin, and the pond takes up about 3.75 acres of the outdoor space. Inside it has two main-level owner’s suites, a large family room with stacked stone fireplace, three-car garage and room for expansion. It was purchased by Perry Schonfeld, a principal and the chief operating officer at LBA Realty, and his wife, Janis.

5. Van Leer Drive, Nashville 37220

Buyers: Whitney and Jacob Davis

Sale price: $4,770,000

Seller: 8Gco Trust

Seller’s agent: Jessica Rosenblum, PARKS

Buyers’ agent: Caroline Dean, VILLAGE

McKenzie Construction and P Shea Designs

teamed up to build this new home with a combination of “modern and rustic elements” in Oak Hill. The home sits on one acre on a “family friendly quiet street” and has a fresh metal roof, cedar and stone accent on the home’s exterior along with beautiful mature trees and my favorite amenity on any listing: “plenty of room for a pool!” The inside has two main-level suites and three upstairs as well as a private suite above the garage that is “perfect for inlaws, nanny, or private office or studio.” It also has something called a “rocking chair front porch,” which looks kind of like a regular porch.

6. Liberty Church Trail, Brentwood 37027

Buyer: Mason W. and Molly C. Crosby Revocable Trust

Sale price: $4.5 million

Seller: Jerry A. and Carol M. Denham, Trustees, Denham Trust

Seller’s agent: Meredith Rachel Zeller, PARKS

Buyer’s agents: John White and Emily Steward, Engel & Voelkers Nashville

“This stunning, natural light filled estate is livable, luxurious and is tucked away on a street that might just be the best kept secret in Brentwood!,” the listing of this $4.5 million secret mansion reads. The abode has seven bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, four half bathrooms, two offices, a home theater, a wine cellar, pool, spa and sporting court all on two acres. The “only thing this home is missing is you!”

7. Harlow Drive, College Grove 37046

Buyers: Lindsay Ann and Kyle Jeffrey Kemp

Sale price: $4,450,000

Seller: Parros Family Trust

Seller’s agent: Johan Andries Kok, Discovery Tennessee Realty, LLC

Buyers’ agent: Willis Stelly, III, Discovery Tennessee Realty, LLC

Located on the Troubadour Golf & Field Club, this College Grove home includes a gourmet kitchen, large primary bedroom, upgraded lighting, incredible outdoor

entertaining space and more. New owner Lindsay Ann is a design director for Ralph Lauren and her husband, Kyle, is an investor.

8. Benham Ave., Nashville 37215

Buyers: Jeffrey and Sherry White

Sale price: $4,325,000

Seller: Kristy L. Edwards

Seller’s agent: Mary Lynn (ML) Davis, Corcoran Reverie

Buyers’ agent: Kristen Dawson, Constantine Turner Real Estate

In Green Hills, this ultra-modern mini-mansion has a (winks) “sumptuous primary suite,” according to the listing. The listing indicates incredible design and craftsmanship, like a wood-planked wall in the entryway. There is a kitchen for regular folks and a butler’s kitchen tucked away with a large wine cooler. New owners Jeffrey and Sherry White can enjoy the outdoors on their rooftop deck or in their heated pool and hot tub and outdoor entertainment space.

9. Overton Lea Road, Nashville 37220

Buyer: Reid Samuel Wakefield

Sale price: $4,261,000

Seller: Fiona Whelan and John Prine Family Trust

Seller’s and buyer’s agent: Deirdre Kerr and Simon Kerr, Zeitlin Sotheby’s International Realty

This Oak Hill home is the aforementioned gorgeous home formerly owned by the late John Prine and his wife Fiona Whelan. The legendary songwriter and his wife enjoyed more than two acres with a resort-style pool “to cool you off on those hot summer days.” It boasts a recently renovated kitchen and a primary bedroom suite with two walk-in closets and a spa-like walk-in shower and tub. There’s 2,700 feet in the basement that remains unfinished for new owner Reid Samuel Wakefield.

10. Mosley Drive, Brentwood 37027

Buyers: Cameron and Rachelle Smith

Sale price: $4.1 million

Seller: Zeus Dev LLC

Seller’s agent: Garrett Beasley, Brentview Realty Company

Buyers’ agent: Shelly Bearden, Fridrich & Clark Realty

New construction and Brentwood go together like Nashville and … well … new construction. This Brentwood home is another new build “within walking distance to Starbucks and Fresh Market,” according to the listing. It has six bedrooms, seven full baths and one half bath, a study, four-car garage and more. New owners Cameron and Rachelle Smith own High Performance Specialised Athletes Academy.

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

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Lipscomb lands largest federal grant in its history

STAFF REPORTS

from the U.S. Department of Education, the largest grant received in university history.

According to a release, the grant will fund the training of mental health professionals in high-need local education agencies (LEAs) in the Nashville area.

Specifically, the grant will fund the college’s IMPACT (Innovative Mental Health Partnership Accessing Counselor Training) Initiative, led by Lisa Davies. It will provide full tuition for 80 students to complete Lipscomb’s Master of Education degree in school counseling. The funds, to be disbursed over five years, are provided fully by federal resources and do not come from other sources.

Previously, the largest federal grant Lipscomb had been awarded was for $2.49 million in 2019 for the Lipscomb University College of Education and from the Kern Family Foundation.

According to the American School Counseling Association, the recommended ratio of school counselors to students is 1:250, the release notes. In Tennessee, the ASCA guidelines are recommended, but state law requires caseloads of only one counselor per 500 students in K-6th grade and one counselor per 350 students for 7th-12th grades.

“With the continued population growth

in the Nashville area, there is an even greater need for highly trained school counselors,” Leslie Cowell, dean of Lipscomb’s College of Education, said in the release.

“These funds will help address this shortage by improving student access to mental health service professionals who can provide meaningful support for the variety of challenges students face such as lingering impact of the pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, social media issues, disasters, traumatic events and depression.”

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

The Lipscomb University College of Education has received a $4.8 million grant

Partner districts for the initiative are Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, Rutherford County Schools, Maury County Public Schools, Lebanon Special School District and Hickman County Schools. These were selected based on percentage of students from low-income backgrounds, current student-to-counselor ratio and difficulty filling counselor job openings.

Lipscomb taps attorney as board of trustees chair

BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS

Cowart succeeds David Solomon, co-founder and managing director of Meritage Funds, who is concluding a six-year tenure as board of trustees chair. Mitch Edgeworth, division president of HCA–TriStar, is the vice chair.

Cowart has received the National Association for Community Service’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award and the NASBA Center for Public Trust National Integrity Award. In addition, he once received lifetime service awards from the American Heart Association, the Andrew Jackson Foundation, the American Health Lawyers Association and the University of Southern Mississippi Alumni Association.

Cowart holds a professional accountancy degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Belmont has announced the appointment of David Rosselli as executive vice president for advancement and the university’s top fundraising official, effective Aug. 1.

Rosselli, currently vice president for advancement and alumni relations at Baylor University, is taking a position that is new to Belmont. He will be a member of the institution’s executive leadership team and report directly to the office of the president.

of 25 professionals focused on fundraising, alumni engagement, advancement services and special events. Building on Belmont’s philanthropic efforts that saw more than $52 million raised during the last fiscal year, Rosselli will oversee Strategic Path to 2030, according to a release the university’s most ambitious comprehensive fundraising campaign to date.

Prior to his appointment at Baylor in 2015, Rosselli managed the fundraisers and daily operations related to major and principal gifts for the University of Southern California’s Northern California advancement operations.

Rosselli also spent six years as associate athletic director at the University of California, overseeing a $500 million athletics campaign. In addition, he previously held development positions with the University of the Pacific and Santa Clara University.

Rosselli holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism and a master’s degree in educational psychology, both from University of the Pacific.

Local attorney Dick Cowart has been elected chair of the Lipscomb University Board of Trustees.

Cowart, a veteran health care attorney who has chaired the health law and public policy department at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz since 1995, will serve a two-year term with the possibility of two additional terms. He has been a member of the Lipscomb board since 2011

“Lipscomb has been fortunate to have had strong board leadership for years and Dick Cowart will continue this strength,” Lipscomb President Candice McQueen said in the release. “It will be an honor to work with Dick as we vision and lead Lipscomb to new heights. Dick is both deeply thoughtful and incredibly strategic while being a humble servant to this community.”

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

According to a release, Rosselli brings nearly 30 years of institutional development experience at both public and private universities.

At Baylor, based in Waco, Texas, Rosselli oversees the office of advancement and alumni relations. He served as the principal official for the university’s recent “Give Light” fundraising campaign, announced in 2018 and having recently exceeded its $1.1 billion goal.

Rosselli will work with a Belmont staff

“The bold vision we have for Belmont’s future requires us to invest more deeply in garnering philanthropic support by prioritizing our fundraising and engagement efforts at the highest level,” Belmont President Greg Jones said in the release.

“Dave Rosselli brings 29 years of increasingly advanced professional experience in this arena across a variety of institutions, and he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to build strong teams that achieve successful outcomes. We’re thrilled to welcome him and his wife Christine to the Belmont community.”

This story was first published by our sister publication Nashville Post.

Lisa Davies

PHOTO COURTESY OF LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY

Dick Cowart

PHOTO COURTESY OF LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY

Belmont names veteran administrator to lead fundraising STAFF REPORTS

David Rosselli PHOTO COURTESY OF BELMONT UNIVERSITY

Currey Ingram student earns NIAAA scholarship, administrator wins TIAAA leadership award

A Currey Ingram Academy student and administrator were honored at the Tennessee Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (TIAAA) annual awards ceremony at the state athletic director’s conference in Murfreesboro on April 17.

Currey Ingram senior Sydney Korn was named the 2023 female recipient of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) scholarship for the state of Tennessee. The scholarship, which consists of a $500 award, is given to one male student and one female student each year out of over 300 nominees. Korn is the third Currey Ingram student to earn the honor, following Christian Ahlstrand in 2018 and James Smith in 2022.

“Sydney earned this award as an

outstanding student-athlete,” Currey Ingram Academy Athletic Director Reid McFadden said in a news release. “Her commitment and dedication to her team, and to being the best version of herself, is a great example of what all student-athletes should strive to be. Her leadership, through kindness and respect, is inspiring to her peers, and a joy to coach.”

The scholarships recognizes the distinguished scholastic, leadership and sportsmanship attributes of high school student-athletes and the importance of high school athletics in each student’s life.

“I am grateful that her academic and athletic accomplishments are being honored with this scholarship,” McFadden continued.

“The NIAAA and TIAAA are important organizations to me and the profession, and that they honor deserving student-athletes

with scholarships is just another benefit. Sydney represents Currey Ingram and Mustang Athletics well in all she does.”

Currey Ingram Academy Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategic Initiatives, Kelly B. Fish, was also honored at the TIAAA ceremony.

Fish, who formerly held the role of the school’s athletic director from 20112022, was awarded the J. Richard Carroll Leadership Award.

According to the release, the J. Richard Carroll Leadership Award is given annually to TIAAA members who demonstrate leadership, innovation, and commitment to the growth of athletic administrators in the state of Tennessee.

Fish, who currently serves as the President of the TIAAA, was the chair of the host

committee for the 2022 National Athletic Directors Conference held in Nashville and was the Membership Chair for the TIAAA from 2016-2023.

Fish also teaches leadership training courses for the NIAAA at the state and national level, serves as the course chair for a class on middle school athletics, is a National Team Member for the Safe Sport Zone, and was part of the NIAAA U Leadership Cohort.

“Kelly demonstrates leadership at the state and national level, and is committed to the growth of athletic administrators from our state,” TIAAA Executive Director Mike Ellson at the awards ceremony.

Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Independent Bookstore Day highlight busy weekend for Parnassus

BY LOGAN BUTTS

It was a busy weekend for book lovers in Green Hills as Parnassus Books had a full slate of exciting events.

On Friday, Parnassus hosted a trio of Oscar-nominated actresses in front of a sold out crowd.

Mother-daughter duo Diane Ladd and Laura Dern stopped by Nashville to promote the new book that they co-authored, Honey, Baby, Mine, which is a “compilation of their reflections, taking readers on an intimate tour of their lives and revealing universal lessons.”

The conversation was moderated by Nashville native Reese Witherspoon. Witherspoon and Dern have a lengthy on-screen

history together. The pair starred in the 2014 film Wild in which they both earned Oscar nominations. They are both also part of the ensemble of Emmy-winning HBO drama Big Little Lies.

On Saturday, Parnassus celebrated Independent Bookstore Day with a number of author appearances, book signings, exclusive merchandise, an online auction of rare items, and more.

Up next on the docket is a conversation between acclaimed author Dave Eggers and co-owner Ann Patchett. The two will discuss Eggers’ new novel The Eyes and the Impossible on Tuesday, May 9, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available online.

Eggers, a past nominee for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, teamed up with illustrator Shawn Harris to tell the story of a dog “who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.”

Patchett was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Joe Biden. The medal “honors an individual or organization whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the human experience, broadened citizens’ engagement with history or literature, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to cultural resources.”

Currey Ingram Academy senior Sydney Korn

PHOTO BY FANCY PANTS PHOTOGRAPHY

Currey Ingram Academy Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategic Initiatives, Kelly B. Fish. PHOTO BY FANCY PANTS PHOTOGRAPHY

Parnassus Books celebrates Independent Bookstore Day.

MAIL BOX THEFTS

This afternoon was interesting when my doorbell rang and a gentleman I did not know asked if I was the person whose name was on the 2 pieces of mail he had in his hand. Which I had put in my street mailbox earlier this a.m. He lives 2 streets over and saw them in the street, one was my check to Piedmont Gas Co.& another piece of mail. I guess that’s the last time I’ll be using my mailbox, not that any other form of making payments is any safer these days. They say do not use the drop boxes outside the Post Offices. Green Hills can now be put on the list of UNSAFE NEIGHBORHOODS. A few weeks ago I found HATE Literature in my flower bed. I was told to report it to the police, which I did, and even went over to the West Charlotte police station, that was a joke, they could have carried less! So tomorrow I’ll make a trip to the Bank since nothing is open past 4 p.m., and the Post Office in Green Hills, this should be interesting.

FOOTBALL!

Guess Nashville will get a NEW STADIUM even if the taxpayers don’t want their money spent that way! I’ve tried for

years to get our Green Hills Councilmen to help me & the Mayor& and the Metro Storm Water Dept., and no one will FIX the Flooding issue that they have created in my neighborhood. IT FLOODS my backyard! Water sits in this Ditch which the so-called ENGINERS at Metro Water/ Stormwater dept. who has not even seen the problem? The geniuses say the water is from or part of Richland Creek. This is not the problem! This water is run off which use to flow and dry up. But due to construction on many adjoining streets, “someone” or some “construction company” has damned up the ditch. And routed roof runoff water underground into these ditches which can not handle any additional water in their current state! I was told several years ago I could not do that, so why can new construction do it? But the city wants me to pay my “property tax” each year and each time the weather reporters mention “RAIN” I get extremely stressed and wonder if this is the “ONE” that’s gonna get me again. I am not talking about a little bit of water but enough to flow up and over the street culvert on 22nd ave. south and cover and spread out to cover the 2 neighbors’ front yards up as high as 2-3 steps into their homes. This

water comes from down Sharondale Dr. and joins in with runoff from Valley Rd., 22nd Ave. south, 23rd Ave. south, shoots under Woodlawn Dr., and over to Compton Rd./Dr., and did drain into what used to be Richland golf course and never had any flooding problems. Metro Government and whoever knows there is a problem but guess taking care of the “Tourists” and “Footballers” is much more important than its CITIZENS!!!!! You can bet I will NEVER SAY “MOVE TO NASHVILLE IT’S A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE”.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I read today that rather than end the fantasy that fast death automatic AK military firearms must remain available in TN given the illusion that second rights are somehow linked to facilitating children and many others being murdered very often and in mass.

While automatic firepower not being outlawed is definitely linked to seemingly weekly mass shootings and deaths, our TN legislators have approved billing us citizens $140 million dollars to band-aid the problem by funding more on-site officers in schools. To add insult to injury, additionally

our fake with phony credentials legislator Ogles has also proposed we pay to have teachers trained to use and have firearms ---all like our forefathers intended when writing the constitution?

I am ticked off that no one in power is acknowledging that when killer weapons were banned back in the Reagan years (no one cried 2nd Amendment then, as needed “Tough On Crime” measures had racist motivations) mass shootings went way down (like in Australia when they solved the issue the same way) as we got tough on the root of the problem and it worked! Unfortunately, the ban on automatic death tools that civilians can easily obtain expired and anything less than outlawing them again has no good reasons and only excuses to keep the gun lobby money flowing thus shame overshadows common sense imho!

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Walk a Mile: Berry Hill

BY J.R.LIND

Once a month, former Nashville Scene reporter and resident historian J.R. Lind picked an area in the city to examine while accompanied by a photographer. With his column Walk a Mile, he walked a onemile stretch of that area, exploring the neighborhood’s history and character, its developments, its current homes and businesses, and what makes it a unique part of Nashville.

The Route: From Columbine Park, south on Columbine Place, then right on Heather Place, then right on Bransford Avenue. Turn into Woodlawn Memorial Gardens at Bransford’s intersection with Melrose Avenue and walk about 800 feet to the cabins.

Even on a muggy, overcast June morning when the air hangs like a thicket of cobwebs before the sun has burned off the humidity that settles on warm nights in Middle Tennessee, Berry Hill’s Columbine Park is a pleasant splash of green. Set between two one-way stretches of an eponymous road, the park is open but for a few benches and some strong-looking ancient trees. It’s a park for the sake of having a park, which is a fine reason to have a park. On its northern end, Columbine is overlooked by the House of Blues Studios, owned by Universal Music Group since 2019. It’s a multi-building complex that includes Studio D, which was moved whole-cloth from Memphis about a decade back. Murals along the walls and

fences nearby feature faces of the legion of artists of all genres (from Ralph Stanley to Lady Gaga) who have laid down tracks in the studio.

Moving south on Columbine Place, the character of Berry Hill becomes apparent. Homes, restaurants, offices and businesses are neighbors in the quaint World War II houses, unseparated by the vagaries of a zoning code that would keep them apart. The mishmash would horrify the midcentury ultra-rationalist planners who would see all cities become barely connected clutches of commerce and entertainment and home life, none infringing on the other. But in Berry Hill, planning seems to have been conducted simply by happenstance.

Berry Hill, of course, handles its own planning and zoning, among other municipal duties, having survived 1965’s consolidation of Nashville and Davidson County (along with Belle Meade, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, Goodlettsville, a smattering of Ridgetop and the now-evaporated Lakewood). These areas are usually called “satellite cities,” though the Metro Charter simply designates them “smaller cities” and allowed those existing prior to consolidation to continue doing so, unless — as Lakewood did — the residents choose to surrender the charter. Thus freed from those bounds, Berry Hill chugs along, a quirky little pocket where

someone’s house is next to the Nashville Jam Company, itself next to a facility offering high colonics and reflexology.

Pseudoscientific health seems to be a bit of a cottage industry in Berry Hill, with a statistically significant number of herbalists and crystal purveyors alongside an alarming number of dentists (and the home of the surely-more-powerful-than-we-know lobbying group, the Tennessee Association of Optometric Physicians).

Sidewalks are scarce, but so is automobile traffic, on Columbine Place as it curves southwest into Heather Place, which runs along the backside of two of Berry Hill’s most visible and well-known businesses: Baja Burrito and Sam & Zoe’s. The latter — with its multilingual sign advising wrong-way drivers to stop lest they cause a slow-speed head-on collision in the modest drive-thru coffee line — is the destination of a handful of joggers seeking their morning jolt.

Turning north on Bransford — more or less the main drag in Berry Hill proper, with Thompson Lane a more well-traveled road but lacking the character of its perpendicular sister — more beloved small and local restaurants are readying for the day. The bread for the banh mi and the broth for the pho are no doubt in the works at Vui’s Kitchen, the lunch specials are being prepped at The Yellow Porch and Sunflower

Cafe, and folks are grabbing a quick breakfast at Cafe Monell’s.

The restaurants match the woodsiding/clapboard cottage look of the neighborhood. While consistent zoning isn’t much of a concern in Berry Hill, aesthetic consistency surely is. An exception is at the prosthodontist’s office (sadly, a prosthodontist is not a dinosaur — they are dentists specializing in prosthetic devices) just south of Monell’s: It’s a vaguely Spanish Colonial building by way of fast-service restaurant at EPCOT. A few doors north is what is probably the only plaid building in all of Davidson County. This stretch of Bransford is a smorgasbord of niche businesses: tattoo artists next to specialty dentists next to a bead shop next to a scuba store. A video-production house shares a block with The Pfunky Griddle, from whence the seductive scent of bacon is wafting in the heavy June air, as well as a vaguely named consulting shop.

At Bransford’s intersection with Iris Drive is a windowless abandoned building that looks vaguely like an old roadhouse. A secret government facility? Probably not. It was most recently an art gallery. At various times in the 1960s and 1980s, the property was owned by Woodlawn Memorial Park, the cemetery it neighbors, which used it as a source of revenue for the perpetual care fund.

One of the city’s largest burial grounds, Woodlawn is the final home of a number of music figures and regular Nashvillians. It dominates the southeast quadrant of Berry Hill, extending beyond Thompson Lane and thus stretching into Nashville proper, or what demographers and statisticians call “Nashville-Davidson (balance).”

Like cemeteries should be, it is quiet and well-maintained with a relaxing park-like atmosphere and a grid of paved roads, essential because the sidewalk narrows and then disappears at Bransford and Melrose.

It’s little more than a week since Memorial Day, thus many of the headstones are still decorated in the patriotic colors, the wind whistling through the bunting and blooms being the only sound other than the rumble of traffic on Interstate 65. But beyond the remains and the memories of Nashvillians since passed and their families, Woodlawn also holds a curious secret.

Close to the midpoint of its northern edge, facing a bland industrial park, is what looks like a small village of historic homes, a sort of outdoor museum of early Nashville life with pleasant ponds and bubbling streams and a rowdy flock of Muscovy ducks. The crimson bulbs on their heads contrast with the black and white of their feathers as they swim around squawking at a school of koi. The main house in this little campus is Melrose, once the home of Gov. Aaron Brown. Brown, one of many one-term governors in the 19th century, succeeded the delightfully named James Chamberlain “Lean Jimmy” Jones in the governor’s mansion, and in his 64 years he always circled on the fringe of the powerful. Brown served in the U.S. House and the state

Former Nashville Scene staffer, J.R. Lind happened across a piece of hidden history in one of Nashville’s satellite cities

Senate, was future President James K. Polk’s law partner and was postmaster general under President James Buchanan.

In the 1960s, the house was purchased by the Forehand family, who expanded it and modernized it — the still-extant window air conditioning units were not original to the home, nor was the stubborn artificial poinsettia that’s hung on the door for who knows how long. The Forehands, obviously interested in history, took the time to erect plaques explaining each of the buildings, though their particular interpretation thereof is certainly a product of their time. For example, a Confederate cannon (no longer present) is described as having participated in the valiant defense of the city against the Union attack in the “War Between the States.” (There’s a lot wrong with that description, not the least of which is that the defense of Nashville was more “completely ineffective” than “valiant.”)

One small building is described as “servants’ quarters,” as if a well-paid butler lived there and not someone enslaved by the Brown family. Its plaque tells the harrowing tale of a child, asleep in the cabin (it also served as the Browns’ nursery), who was nearly shot in the head by a bullet fired from a Union troop train. That seems

for the ponds and stream; its regular and reliable flow led to a field hospital being set

was broken down and moved piece by piece to Woodlawn in the late 1960s. Connecting

mantle. Even more creepily: One of those faceless articulated-wooden-human-body

Woodlawn PHOTO BY ERIC ENGLAND

Spring Leek Soup with Gruyere

BY EDIBLE NASHVILLE

Spring onions, leeks, green garlic and spinach star in this fresh soup perfect for chilly days.

ACROSS

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INGREDIENTS

3 tablespoons butter

1 large leek, trimmed and chopped (white and green part)

2 spring onions (or green onions), trimmed and chopped

1 green garlic (or 2 cloves garlic) trimmed and chopped salt and pepper

1. Melt 3 tablelspoons butter in a large saucepan. Add leeks, green garlic and spring onions. Saute 10 minutes on low, don’t let brown. Add salt and pepper. Sprinkle leek mixture with 3 tablespoons flour and stir until blended. Cook 2 minutes. Add chicken stock and whisk well. Cook 10 minutes or until

3 tablespoons flour

3 cups chicken stock

2 cups whole milk

3 ounces shredded Gruyere or Comte or Swiss cheese

2 ounces grated Romano or Parmesan cheese

thickened. Add milk and cook on low 10 minutes until thickened. Add cheeses and cook 5 minutes. Add spinach and cook 10 minutes. Serve with croutons and smoked chicken, if desired.

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