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Drawn & quartered
The U.S. Mint will begin producing Tennessee’s quarter in December for circulation in early January. The coin, the 16th in the national series, features a guitar, fiddle, trumpet, the words “Musical Heritage,” an open songbook and the three stars from the state flag. It was designed by an elementary school teacher in Waverly named Shawn Stookey.
Dubious honors
Middle Tennessee’s Harpeth River Valley recently won a contest, but it’s not exactly a trophy moment. In the third annual competition by Scenic America, a national conservation organization, it was named “one of the 10 most endangered scenic places in America.” The organization’s press release describes the Harpeth Valley as one of America’s “Last Chance Landscapes”—places of beauty and distinctive community character threatened by development. Scenic America notes that Williamson County’s population grew by 60 percent in the 1990s, with scores of new subdivisions and extensive road construction. In response, Franklin’s Citizens for Good Growth Management called for a “countywide comprehensive land-use plan” to protect areas of historic and scenic significance as “heritage landscapes.”
A new direction
For years, Belle Meade’s City Commission has agonized over how to make the heavily traveled Belle Meade Boulevard safe for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians alike. Now, after a series of token efforts, the city’s three commissioners might finally overhaul the signature street. Last week, landscape architect Jim Douglas recommended that the city close two of the boulevard’s four lanes and create 4-foot-wide sidewalks instead. Patches of grass would separate the sidewalks from the road. The commissioners, who will face heavy pressure to both keep the status quo and go with the face-lift, plan to vote on the recommendation next month.
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