Well that was fun. We should hold these huge elections more often. It’s fun standing in line for two hours to have a chance to push some buttons on an electronic device that appears to have been built in 1982. But seriously, I hope everyone had a good election day, even if your favorite candidate didn’t [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
Folks in Sumner County can now look forward to a 20% hike in electricity rates starting on October 1st. Yippee! That was a sarcastic “yippee,” by the way. So, if your typical bill is around $100.00, you can expect it to immediately jump up to about $120.00. As if times weren’t hard enough. I mean… we’re already paying [...]
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Pssst. Hey. Did you know that lava lamps are still available? I know that because I read this Craigslist ad titled, “Lava Lamps are still available.” Totally made my day, man. I mean… now if we can just find some place where we can still get bellbottoms, tie-dye, and hemp bracelets… my life would be complete. Oh–and [...]
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Gallatin City Council has quietly spent about $12,000 setting up a Wireless Internet network in the downtown district. It’s been active for a little over a month. The plan calls for eventual expansion to other areas in Gallatin, such as city parks. The new Gallatin WiFi initiative is using mesh-network technology. Instead of one big wireless [...]
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
$3.89 Well, $3.86 is gone. It’s packed its bags and moved on. We have a nice visit with $3.86, lasting more than two and a half weeks. But, like all things, it had to end eventually. Welcome if you will, the new cheapest gas price in the county, $3.89. There are at least three Hendersonville stations offering [...]
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a fun new website feature they call the Housing and Transportation Affordability Index. It’s an interactive map that you can navigate and manipulate in the same way you would a Google Map. But it’s so much more than just a map… it’s also the stuff of nightmares for many nights [...]
Monday, June 30, 2008
Jim says he works in Hendersonville, and that there is a daycare near his work that had this marquee message for a couple weeks. It reads, “Please pray for our soldiers we are enrolling for Fall classes.” Um… most daycares focus on offering supervision for little ones… you know, toddlers. Now, I’m all for stretching the [...]
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Our Gas Prices articles, and our permanent (and frequently updated) Current Cheapest Gas Prices page, are some of the more popular things on this site. And understandably so. As gas prices continue to go up, everyone’s looking for the cheapest gas in Sumner County. People are driving less or consolidating errands to make fewer trips. So we [...]
Thursday, June 26, 2008
This article is several months old, but gives lots of good details about the ever-growing Indian Lake Village area in Hendersonville that most citizens probably don’t know. It’s going to be gigantic. Huge. More that twice the size of simiar developments in Murfreesboro & Mount Juliet. Bigger than Cool Springs. More retail space than Rivergate. Read that [...]
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Today’s Cheapest Gas in Sumner County: $3.84 Slight rise this week in the gas prices around Sumner County after enjoying $3.83/gallon from several vendors for several days. You can find regular unleaded for $3.84 today in a few places: IGA Express (Keystop) on New Shackle Island Road Phillips 66 at Main & Mallard Mapco at Center Point Road Most [...]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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