Happy 2008

Happy New Year, LaVergne!  May we find strong retail to come to our town, may our schools continue to provide quality education for our students, may our leaders make the right decisions that will benefit our community, and may our residents enjoy a year with no crime, solid job security, and with good health.

LaVergne Nabs Shopping Center

My friend Big Orange Michael sent me this …
From the Nashville Biz Journal’s print edition this week.
$20M shopping center lands in La Vergne
Rutherford County will be getting a $20 million shopping center along Interstate 24, spurred by the recent construction of a Super Target nearby.
Centrum SSI of Nashville, a local affiliate of Centrum Properties Inc. [...]

Is the Pea Pod Closing?

I just heard from a friend that the Pea Pod Cafe may be closing.  Does anyone know anything about this?  Say it ain’t so!

No News is Good News?

Not much newsworthy going on right now, so I thought maybe I could dig something up. Checking out the list of ordinances past in LV this year, I came across 92 acres in West La Vergne near Nolensville that was rezoned for ‘planned density residential?’ What is that? It also says this is to be a [...]

Josh’s Story in DNJ

Here’s a link to the story Mealand Ragland Hudgins wrote about Joshua Osborne for the Daily News Journal.
Changes he and his aunt would like to see include extending the statute of limitations on child-abuse cases, preventing children in such cases from testifying against accused abusers in court, eliminating the “first-time offenders” text in the law [...]

Joshua’s Petition ONLINE

Update: A friend sent me this link to information about the parole hearing for Josh’s dad and stepmother. 
The petition developed by Joshua Osborne to change state law is now online.  We prefer residents of Tennessee to sign it, but support from other parts of the country would also be appreciated.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION.
Joshua Osborne [...]

Faces of “Wrinkles”

from mailcenter.comcast.n posted with vodpod
Help Me by Lisa Ogden
I published Wrinkles: True Stories of Everyday People. 

These Boots are Made for Walkin’ (on sidewalks)

BooYa!  The sidewalks on Stones River are moving along nicely and there are even more to come.  Mealand Ragland Hudgins wrote a quite nice article about their progress in today’s Daily News Journal.  The whole subject of sidewalks is a thorn in the side of those around me because that’s one of the main subjects I [...]

Just One More Card

UPDATE: Commenter Gina tells us this is untrue, “It was published in the newspaper and also on Snopes.com that these letters will not be delivered.  I think that really bites!” 
However, John Carney an editor at a Shelbyville newspaper told me he wrote a similar story and provided this address to send a card to:
We Support [...]

Joshua’s Petition

UPDATE: The new “picture” is for the benefit of the person who took my copyrighted photo and posted it on the forum at somethingawful.com.  Look for a cease and desist letter shortly.  You should be ashamed of yourself. Other visitors, please read Josh’s story and realize that you shouldn’t be so hasty to judge people. There but [...]