Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) today announced 49 grants totaling $191.2 million from the state’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) fund, part of which TDEC is administering through competitive grants for regionalization, water reuse, and resource protection, and a state strategic project. Of the 49 grants announced today, 14 are for regionalization, eight for water reuse, and 27 for resource protection. Regionalization projects will provide cooperative support across water and wastewater systems to improve the sustainability, affordability, and/or reliability of systems. Water reuse projects will reclaim water from a variety of sources then treat and…
Author: Tn Tribune
Dear Editor; I lived in Nashville from 2009-2023 and am now a proud resident of Franklin, TN. My husband, along with our 14-month-old son, purchased our second home in September of this year. Our last home was our first home. It was every first-time home buyer’s dream; historic charm, great neighborhood, with plenty of room for our personal touches over time. However, what began as a dream quickly turned into a nightmare. Just after a year of owning our home, our ceilings cracked and caved in. We had been out of town only to return to a home in shambles.…
MEMPHIS—Senate minority leader Sen. Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, is calling on the Tennessee General Assembly to reject culture war politics and focus on policies to boost working families following new voter research released by Vanderbilt University. In its new poll, the GOP-controlled legislature’s disapproval rating hit a record high. Vanderbilt pollsters said, “The Vanderbilt Poll also indicates that—on topics such as abortion gun control and safety, and federal support for education—the Tennessee legislature adopts positions that differ considerably from the opinion of most registered voters, including Republicans, in Tennessee.” Statement from Sen. Raumesh Akbari: “This new research confirms again that Tennessee families…
Tennessee artist Meg Pollard is painting the town and not just red. Pollard’s creativity is on full display at WeGo Central. She describes herself as a freeform visual artist, utilizing acrylic paint and digital formats. Her artwork entitled “Swirls” was featured inside a Wego bus in 2019. “The “Swirls” artwork were cathartic for me to create; they just come out,” stated Pollard. “I’m not trying to make a swirl flow in any certain direction because it already knows where it’s supposed to go. I used to see them all the time as a child when I’d close my eyes while…
Nashville, TN (June 8, 2021) – TV personality, singer, motivational speaker, and transformation coach, Queen Brooklyn Tankard announces her “33FOR33 Project” created to empower at-risk but ambitious girls, 12-24 years old, to start purpose-based businesses in 90 days. Queen Brooklyn has overcome adversity by the grace of God and is now compelled to help other young women overcome the same trials. Queen Brooklyn and The I Am Free Society have started The Becoming THAT Girl mentorship program which specifically provides support and resources to at-risk women and girls. Queen Brooklyn says, “Graduates will leave the program with a renewed mind,…
Troy Delone was not always an upstanding citizen. His extracurricular street activities landed him in the country’s largest maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, when he was 21. Though he was sentenced to double-life plus five years for two counts of armed robbery, Delone was determined to find his way out of prison via legal means. After earning his bachelor’s degree in Christian ministry while in prison, a new law gave him a glimmer of hope for a potential release. On Dec. 19, 2016, after serving 16 years, that’s just what happened. Making good on his word to better…
Over the course of a day-and-a half in late May and early June 1921, a white mob, angered by the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man, burned and looted the predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The damage covered 35 city blocks, destroying nearly 200 businesses, displacing about 10,000 residents. Hundreds were killed in the Tulsa race massacre, deemed one of the deadliest riots in U.S. history. In the aftermath, Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church was the only black-owned structure still standing in the historic Black Wall Street district. Today, the church at 311 N.…
It was breakfast time, and Wanda Armstrong was rolling out the crust for her famous peach cobbler at Evelyn’s Soul Food Restaurant, a well-known dining spot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that’s frequented by NFL veterans, politicians and even the last astronaut to walk on the moon. By early afternoon, Armstrong has left Evelyn’s — which is named after her mother — and headed to Wanda J’s, her other restaurant in Tulsa. Located at the American Airlines maintenance facility in town, it bears the owner’s high-school nickname. In addition, Wanda’s son, Ty Walker, and five of his six daughters are cooking and…
CARSON, Calif. — Nonito Donaire made boxing history with a fourth-round KO win over defending titleholder Nordine Oubaali on May 29, making him the oldest WBC bantamweight champion and one of a very few fighters to win a world title over three different decades. “The king is back!” Donaire said to the crowd after becoming a world champion for the ninth time. He broke his own record in the 118-pound division, when, at age 35, he defeated Ryan Burnett in 2018. Burnett was forced to leave the fight in the fourth round due to a back injury. Nonito Donaire displayed a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was 8:01 pm on Memorial Day 2020, when a 911 call from a Minneapolis convenience store said a customer was refusing to give back a pack of cigarettes he had bought with a counterfeit $20 bill. What happened next has become infamous: Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of the handcuffed African American man, who pleaded that he could not breathe and called out for his mother. Nine minutes and 29 seconds later, George Floyd was dead — the entire murder captured on a teenager’s cell phone. Nearby, Russell A. Pointer had just finished up…