Have You Pinged the LaV Population Radar?

PING! My house has five, Ginger gave LaV two more, Ivy five, View from the Lake five, Chip two … how many people live in your LaVergne house who have been or need to be counted? 
It’s not too late to fill out your census form ONLINE!!!
LaVergne’s 2008 census is on life support because not enough [...]

News We Can Use

Looks like our beloved Post office is now in its new location!  Can we just say Yippee!!!!!!  I really hated that little parking lot it was in.  I hardly ever went to our Post Office because it was so small and it always felt dirty.  (just my opinion)
I certainly look forward to visiting the new [...]

Manic Monday: Open Thread Day

We haven’t done an open thread in a while AND I’m working all day, so we’re having an open thread day to talk about what’s on your mind, LaVergne!
I’ll start.  Why is it that every single time I take a stroll in a public place, I have to dodge where someone has spit on the [...]

City Investigations are Complete

The city has completed investigations of possible racist comments made by city employees. Documentation is available for one of the probes; other reports will be coming.
According to the DNJ,
The mayor said the investigations have taken so long because he wanted to ensure anyone who was involved or may have saw or heard anything had a [...]

Bullies Bullying the Bullied

The DNJ ran another article today about the hostile work environment experienced by some city employees. Read the article right here.
Seriously, bullying is exactly what to call the alleged behavior of city employees.  Wikipedia gives us this,
According to the Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute workplace bullying is “repeated, health-harming mistreatment, verbal abuse, or conduct which is [...]

This is BEAUTIFUL LaVergne Award

This is LaVergne is pleased to announce that we have selected an April winner for the first ever “This is Beautiful LaVergne” award.  To ensure the privacy of winners, we are not publishing addresses.  We hope to reach the point in the future where people are nominated by their neighbors and we have permission to print [...]

Giant Mosquitos Invade LaV

They aren’t really giant mosquitos… nay.  They are crane flies.  And they seem to be everywhere!  As I searched the Internet for photos of a crane fly, I did learn something new.  They are nicknamed “Daddy Long Legs.”  I always thought Daddy Long Legs were the spider things, not the winged insects.
Slow news day, I [...]

Todays Twitters

From a friend at Twitter:
LaVergne PD spends an inordinate amount of time patrolling the mean streets of McFarlin Pointe.
I had to laugh when I read that.  Here’s more.
Just had my first sip of Mello Yello in almost two years. Tasted like cleaning fluid.
work zone. I’m thinking you dig my ambiguity
I may have to march next [...]

Open House Sunday, 2-4pm

Hello LaVergne!  Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m holding an open house  tomorrow from 2-4pm at 279 Bill Stewart.  Click here to read more info about this beautiful home.   The open house is part of a parade-of-home-ish effort by The Tennessean that features “affordable homes” throughout middle Tennessee.  The newspaper made it extremely [...]

Did You Feel It?

Did you feel the earthquake this morning?  My husband said he felt the bed vibrate … a little rumble that he barely felt … and wondered what was going on.  I’ve heard for 30 years that the New Madrid Fault will tremble within 50 years. I wonder if the big one is coming.
Here’s where a 6.8 shook in [...]