🌱 Patch AM: How new I-24 toll lanes could reshape traffic and homes in South Nashville.

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In today's newsletter:

• How new I-24 toll lanes could reshape traffic and homes in South Nashville.
• New witness accounts revive a nearly four-year-old South Nashville homicide case.

Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Humid with heavy t-storms, with a high of 88 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 89, low: 69.
• Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 90 and low of 67 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Pay to skip traffic: Tennessee picks company to build I-24 choice lanes (newschannel5.com) — South Nashville residents could see homes, businesses, and nearby roads reshaped by new paid "choice lanes" planned for I-24 between Nashville and Murfreesboro. A private consortium will fund construction and recoup costs through tolls, while TDOT says revised designs lessen impacts and has scheduled September public meetings, including one at the Pruitt Branch Library, to address neighborhood concerns.
   

• Man charged nearly 4 years after 19-year-old killed in South Nashville (newschannel5.com) — An arrest has been made in the killing of a 19-year-old found shot in a burning car at Southern Hills Condominiums in South Nashville, nearly four years after the crime. Metro Nashville detectives say new witness interviews, combined with earlier ballistics evidence, led to a criminal homicide charge against a 35-year-old already jailed in an unrelated robbery case.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday August 20
• WMS-Tennis @ SMS
  Woodland Middle School Sunset Middle School, 200 Sunset Trail, Brentwood, TN 37027, U
  4:00 pm
• BHS varsity girls soccer vs Ensworth
  Brentwood High School , 5304 Murray Ln, Brentwood, TN 37027, US
  4:30 pm
• BHS Open House
  Brentwood High School Brentwood, TN 37027
  6:00 pm
• WMS-Football @ Spring Station
  Woodland Middle School Spring Station Middle School, 1000 Spring Station Dr, Spring Hil
  6:00 pm
• SSES-3rd-5th Open House
  Sunset Elementary School Brentwood, TN 37027
  6:00 pm
• RHS - Soccer vs Lipscomb @ RHS
  Ravenwood High School , 1724 Wilson Pike, Brentwood, TN 37027
  6:00 pm
Friday August 21
• BHS varsity football @ Smyrna
  Brentwood High School Smyrna High School, 100 Bulldog Dr, Smyrna, TN 37167, USA
  7:00 pm
• RHS - Football vs MRA @ RHS
  Ravenwood High School , 1724 Wilson Pike, Brentwood, TN 37027
  7:00 pm
Saturday August 22
• RHS - Cross Country @ Hendersonville
  Ravenwood High School Brentwood, TN 37027
  5:00 pm
• BHS boys and girls xc @ Saturday Night Fever
  Brentwood High School Sanders Ferry Parks, 513 Sanders Ferry Rd, Hendersonville, TN 3
  6:00 pm
Sunday August 23
• Belle Meade Winery →
  Belle Meade Winery, 5025 Harding Pike, Nashville
  12:30 pm
• Krystal king: Belle Meade Winery →
  Belle Meade Winery, 5025 Harding Pike, Nashville
  12:30 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Nashville

• Body camera footage shows last time 31-year-old was last seen in Nashville (newschannel5.com)
• North Nashville family still fighting with insurance company six months after house fire (wsmv.com)
• The Highwomen (blogspot.com)

Brentwood

• 1817 Wisdom Dr, Brentwood, TN 37027 (redfin.com)
• EDGAR Filing Documents for 0002044248-26-000017 (sec.gov)
• Family hopes historic 1899 home survives HOA money scandal tied to TBI investigation (newschannel5.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Pepper makes them sneeze (Thank you Karla H. for sending it in!)
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