Belle Meade News

With the summer solstice and the Southern heat came a couple of cool new entries to the dining scene.

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At 24 years and counting, senior account executive Stevan Steinhart has the longest tenure of anyone at the Nashville Scene--and a long memory for what Nashville restaurants were like back in the day.

The handgun battle is heading from Capitol Hill to City Hall. Local governments and advocates for firearms owners are gearing up for a summer face-off over how far to take a new state law that lets people with carry permits bring handguns into parks.

2. "Another Country: Hard Times, Hard Living in Grundy County" Writer Galyn Glick dares to suggest the Southern Middle Tennessee county has a reputation for crime and violence - bringing an avalanche of threats from irate Grundy Countians.

A bunch of new businesses have been moving in to the Hill Center at Belle Meade in recent weeks, and more are expected to come throughout the summer, adding to a vibrant retail area.

Pith 's smug anonymous insiders just won't shut up about Ward Cammack. When last we heard from our hero, you will recall, he was denying reports ---well, one report anyway--that his campaign is dragging ass.

The federal trial for a former Middle Tennessee teacher accused of providing drugs and alcohol to teenagers and secretly videotaping them having sex in his Belle Meade-area home has been set for Aug.

Belle Meade United Methodist Church will host Camp E.D.G.E. Vacation Bible School June 24-27 for children ages 3 and older.

The case involving a man accused of child pornography is expected to go on trial later this summer.

A trial date has been set in the federal child pornography case against former schoolteacher Louis J. Levine.

Two Rivers Mansion, owned by Metro government since 1966, appears this year to be a host still waiting for the guests at its 150th birthday party.

Bridges Cafe, the Southern lunchroom that filled in when Molly P closed two years ago, shut its doors this past weekend.

Hipster places come and go, and good ones can last a long time. But nothing lasts forever.

FRANKLIN - If something isn't being baked or cooked in Lona Heid-Heins' kitchen, chances are that preparations for some tasty treat are under way.

The greetings are almost the same whether Joe Hughes is walking down the halls of Harpeth Valley Elementary or down the aisles of the Bellevue Kroger on Highway 70.

If your kids start feigning sick and needing to go the doctor, it could be a case of FroYoitis, a rare condition that arises when a cute-as-pie serve-yourself frozen yogurt store opens at the foot of a pediatrician's office.

A Nashville development company in which developer Tony Giarratana plays a role has sued Gresham, Smith & Partners, saying the architecture work it performed on a Belle Meade project was "substandard," causing higher costs and delays.

Movie lovers are invited to Belle Meade Plantation for the 2009 Barn Door Drive-in on Thursday, June 18.

A former teacher has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly producing child pornography in his Belle Meade-area home, according to the Tennessean newspaper.