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Historic Home For Sale + Porchfest Returns + Deer Donation Needed

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Welcome back, Franklin! Let's get this Thursday started off right. Here's everything happening today in town.


First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy throughout the day. High: 84 Low: 64.


Here are the top stories today in Franklin:

  1. A historic home built in 1873 in downtown Franklin is for sale. The house belonged to the grandparents of "country comedy queen" Minnie Pearl. The house will sell for $2.75 million. (Tennessean)
  2. There are over 55 places you can bring your deer donation at no cost to help Hunters for the Hungry. This program helps to feed families in need. (WBBJ-TV)
  3. Porchfest will return to Franklin's Westhaven neighborhood this weekend for its 10th annual festival. (williamsonherald.com)
  4. Hatcher Dairy Farm in College Grove premiered on Disney+ this week as a National Geographic Docuseries. (Williamson Source)
  5. Police continue to search for information in the brutal beating of a tourist on lower Broadway in Nashville last week and offer a $10K reward for information. (WKRN News 2)

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Sammi Caramela

About me: Assistant Managing Editor at Lightning Media Partners and author of "Some Place Like Home."

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