COURTNEY COLUMN Ask and ye shall receive even more No Midstate area seems immune to sellers getting more money than requested. DAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • RUTHERFORD • CHEATHAM WILSON SUMNER• ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY LedgerP3 ROGERS COLUMN An inconvenient school shooting Legislators have celebration of Please, no more Titan-ic flopsall things gun-related put on hold – temporarily. P3 April 23-29, 2021 The power of information.NASHVILLE Vol. 47 EDITION | Issue 17 www.TNLedger.com FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 Evaluating college talent still risky business amid pandemic limitations Photo by Nick Wass | AP MILLENNIAL MONEY Story by Terry McCormick Pot calling the business white begins on page 2 Marijuana has taken its toll October 8 - 14, 2010 on minority communities over the years. Legalized pot Law & Government isn’t making up for it. 08/26/2010, 10C3303 Publicern Express, Inc, James T Collins Recordsvs Rogers Group Inc, Pltf(s): James T Collins, Hampshire Insurance Company, Western Express, Inc, Def Atty(s): Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Rogers Group Inc, Def Atty(s): Heather E John W Barringer, 08/30/2010, 10C3341 Hardt, 08/26/2010, 10C3308 Patricia McClarren vs Star Insurance Company, Westwood James A insideWells vs Jenco Construction & online Inc, Pltf(s): James A Church Of Christ, Wells, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Jenco Construction Inc, Def Atty(s): Def(s): Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Def Jennifer S White, 08/25/2010, 10C3282 Atty(s): David John Deming, 08/30/2010, 10C3343 RealtyJessica CheckGrimwood ....................................... vs Intrepid USA Healthcare Services, Richard Dicaire vs Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs CommunityPltf(s): Jessica Calendar Grimwood, Pltf ..........................Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Intrepid USA Personnel Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Healthcare Services, Def Atty(s):TNLedger.com Clifford Wilson, 08/27/2010, Staffmark, Staffmark Investment LLC, P35 Newsmakers ....................................... Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel Judy R Lawson vs Nursing & Oneida, Pltf(s): Judy R Lawson, Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark Public PltfRecords Atty(s): David Harold Dunaway, Def(s): Nursing & Oneida, Def Investment LLC, Def Atty(s): Stephen B Morton, 08/26/2010, Public Notices and ForeclosuresJordan Sanders vs Dillons Welding Inc and Employers, Pltf(s): Jordan Sanders, Pltf Atty(s): Donald D Zuccarello, Def(s): Marketplace ....................................... ............................. 3 ............................... 23-34 4 6 8-15 35 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com APRIL 23-29, 2021 GM LOOKS TO ERASE THE WORST FAIL OF HIS 5 NFL DRAFTS Photo by Michael Conroy | AP Titans General ManagerJon Robinson. Coupled with a pair of big free agent whiffs, the 2020 offseason was one to forget for Titans By Terry McCormick COVID-19 changed many things in 2020. Everything from how we do our work, to dining, shopping, attending church, even Titans draft class 2020 casting votes, all changed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how last year’s class fared during its rookie Th e mighty National Football League proved even it wasn’t season. immune to the impact of the virus. Th ere was a virtual draft, ■ Isaiah Wilson (OL): Round 1, Pick 29 – Appeared in canceled off season and preseason work and virus outbreaks within one game. Traded to Miami in offseason, released one teams that conspired against the league in 2020. week later Somehow, though, the league persevered, playing in empty or limited capacity stadiums and scheduling around quarantines that ■ Kristian Fulton (CB): Round 2, Pick 61 – Six games, postponed games and created such oddities as Tuesday night and two started. One interception, one sack, 16 tackles Wednesday afternoon football. ■ Darrynton Evans (RB): Round 3, Pick 93 – Five Th e Tennessee Titans endured their share of hardship – being games, no starts. 54 yards on 14 carries, two recep- the fi rst team to suff er through a locker room outbreak of the virus, tions for 27 yards and one touchdown feeling the scorn of those who jumped to conclusions too quickly ■ Larrell Murchison (DL): Round 5, Pick 174 – Ten about the outbreak and eventually drawing a fi ne from the league games, no starts. Five tackles for their COVID transgressions. ■ Cole McDonald (QB): Round 7, Pick 224 – Released As the Titans and the league now prepare for the 2021 NFL after fi rst week of training camp Draft – April 29-May 1 in Cleveland – it’s easy to see how the COVID-infl uenced, fl y-by-the-seat-your-pants approach that teams ■ Chris Jackson (S): Round 7, Pick 243 – 11 games, were forced into in evaluating draft prospects a year ago wrought three starts. Twenty-four tackles havoc in that process. After meeting players at the NFL Combine a year ago, the evaluation process was essentially shut down – no pro days, no he cashed his fi rst NFL paycheck. Th at the Titans eventually gave private workouts, no bringing in prospects in for visits. Just Zoom up and shipped him to Miami for the equivalent of a rusty blocking calls, as much networking as scouts could do remotely and then sled and a bag of used footballs is telling enough. hoping for the best with the players picked on draft weekend. Th e fact that Wilson wore out his welcome with the Dolphins, No team was bitten harder than the Titans. getting released less than a week after being acquired, says all you Consider the well-chronicled fi asco of fi rst-round pick Isaiah need to know about just how bad a pick that was for the Titans. Wilson, who seemed to lose focus and interest in football as soon as TITANS >> PAGE 17 APRIL 23-29, 2021 www.TNLedger.com Page 3 No area is immune No pro-gun bill left behind Even in Th e Nations, a sale Locked, loaded: for $51K more than list price Shooting only Simon Kerr, a Crystal Lethcoe, a profi le in courage in Realtor with Zeitlin her own right, represented the buyer and pauses legislators Sotheby’s International won the battle of the Nations. Lethcoe has Realty, was born into led her charges for years and is one of the Timing is everything, as Tennessee the Irish Kerr clan in most admired and respected Realtors in the legislators learned recently. Th ey Derry, Ireland, and he business. might also have felt chastened, if they RICHARD COURTNEY speaks the language Longtime Realtor Keith Merrill shocked possessed that capacity, which they do REALTY of the land. What the real estate community last year when he not. CHECK language it is is tough announced his retirement. Merrill had a 26- To be fair, I should amend that: A to determine, but it is year career in real estate and was one of the JOE ROGERS majority do not possess the capacity to beautiful, whatever it is. most productive real estate brokers in the feel chastened. A supermajority. Ledger MY TAKE His mother Dierdre is a well-known, history of Nashville real estate. After a one- Th is was the situation: Th e House brash, successful Realtor in her own right, year sabbatical in 2019, Merrill realized that was to consider a bill designating Tennessee as a Second well-known for her forthrightness and her the peace that came with time away from The power of Amendment Sanctuary, yet another of the General confi dence in her rightness in most, if not the business was magically refreshing. information. Assembly’s continuing eff orts to declare, basically: “Guns. all, matters – real estate or otherwise. For years, Merrill had spent a few We love ’em.” Simon’s father, Tony Kerr, is the months each year at his cabin in the Published weekly by Westview Newspaper, LLC Th is came on the heels of passage of the so-called proprietor and founder of Care Home Adirondacks and had partnered with permitless carry legislation recently signed into law by inspections, one of the city’s longest Jonny Gleaton, who held down the fort 222 Second Ave. N. Suite 101 Gov. Bill Lee. I expect that eventually legislators will running inspection groups and one of when Merrill headed North for the one- Nashville, TN 37201 (615) 254-5522 dispense with the preliminaries and simply vote to issue a the most thorough. It’s called Care not year sabbatical, during which Mary Beth FAX: (615) 254-5525 revolver or pistol (your choice!) to all Tennesseans of legal so much for the diligence and comfort Th omas, another veteran real estate broker, Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m age, provided that they are not currently incarcerated. And of the inspection process – although resided in Merrill’s home at 2409 Fairfax then to lower the legal age to 12. both are characteristics of the company – Avenue, near the campuses of Vanderbilt President & Chairman Peter Schutt Th is particular gun celebration was complicated, because “care” is the way the Kerr family and Eakin School. Publisher & CEO however, by the fact that earlier that day a student was pronounces Kerr. A modest 3,400-square-foot home, Eric Barnes shot to death in a confrontation with the police at a high Son Simon Kerr is not only one of the Merrill had loaded it with over-the-top Associate Publisher & Executive Editor school in Knoxville. most promising young Realtors in the area, features and equipped it for a lifetime of Lyle Graves Pretty awkward timing. [email protected] but also was one of the Wans. Once a Wan comfortable living. A 50-year roof covered On top of that, the student was the fi fth current or always a Wan, the band followed the path the structure heated and cooled with a Planning Editor Cindy Smith former student from the same high school, Austin-East of most non-Beatle bands by breaking up, geothermal system.