ROGERS COLUMN Simple tasks to soothe the soul Something as mundane as ABSOLUTE AUCTION washing dishes can off er 7,000+ Sq. Ft. Custom Built Home in Oak Hill area comfort in trying times. SELLING REGARDLESS OF PRICE! P3 See our ad on page 40 July 31-August 6, 2020 Vol. 46 | Issue 31 NASHVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com The power of information. LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • RUTHERFORD • CHEATHAM WILSON SUMNER• ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 Football time in Tennessee? Titans eager to play despite risks of contracting COVID-19. Will they get the chance? Stories by Terry McCormick | Page 2 Fall without football would devastate Knoxville areaʼs economy, identity Story by Tom Wood | Page 19 shutterstock.com ern Express, Inc, BEHIND THE WHEEL Hampshire Insurance Company, Western Express, Inc, Def Atty(s): John W Barringer, 08/30/2010, 10C3341 October 8 - 14, 2010 Patricia McClarren vs Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Law & GovernmentPltf(s): James T Collins, Def(s): Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Def Ford has a better PublicAtty(s): David John Deming, 08/30/2010, 10C3343 Pltf(s): James A Richard Dicaire vs Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark Investment LLC, Records Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel idea – 3 of them 08/26/2010, 10C3303 Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark James T Collins vs Rogers Group Inc, Investment LLC, Def Atty(s): Stephen B Morton, 08/26/2010, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Rogers Group Inc, Def Atty(s): Heather E Hardt, 08/26/2010,inside 10C3308 & online James A Wells vs Jenco Construction Inc, An old U.S. carmaker is Wells, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): JencoTNLedger.com Construction Inc,Pltf(s): Def Atty(s): Judy R Lawson, Jennifer S White, 08/25/2010, 10C3282 Jessica Grimwood vs Intrepid USA Healthcare Services, suddenly upstaging the RealtyPltf(s): JessicaCheck Grimwood, ....................................... Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Intrepid USA 3 imports, with a resurrected CommunityHealthcare Services, Calendar Def Atty(s): Clifford .......................... Wilson, 08/27/2010, 4 NewsmakersJudy R Lawson vs Nursing ..................................... & Oneida, 6 Pltf Atty(s): David Harold Dunaway, Def(s): Nursing & Oneida, Def Public Records .............................. 8-15 Bronco leading the way. Jordan Sanders vs Dillons Welding Inc and Employers, P18 Public NoticesPltf(s): Jordan Sanders,and Pltf Atty(s): Donald D Zuccarello, Def(s): Foreclosures ....................16-17, 26-37 Marketplace .................................... 39 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2020 Titans players want to play but ‘in a safe way’ and you don’t want to get sick. It’s just Opting out not an about trying to be safe and knowing who you’re hanging around with, and at the option for players same time, practicing social distancing and just seeking roster spot trying to stay as healthy as Parenting isn’t easy, possible through this time. By Terry McCormick but you don’t have to walk the journey alone. “Mom treats it like a lot If second-year Tennessee Titans of people. She’s a nurse RELATED just trying to do her job Nurture the Next is here to help. defensive lineman Isaiah Mack had STORIES and keep everybody safe any reservations about playing the Page 21 & 22 2020 NFL season through a pandemic, and taken care of. She’s doing a wonderful job.” Free in-home programs that help build healthy he didn’t have to look too far to find encouragement. Mack, who returned home a few weeks relationships between parents and children. Mack’s mother, Sequoyah, has seen the back and had dinner with his mom, says COVID-19 pandemic on the front lines as a she offered him this simple advice: nurse at Hamilton Regional Medical Center “She just told me make sure you don’t in his hometown of Dalton, Georgia. get sick. My mom is a very funny lady. Parenting and crisis support here for you 24/7. So with a little bit of a sense of humor She’s a ball … and jokes around with Call 1-800-CHILDREN. and a lot of good, strong, motherly advice, me,” Mack adds. “But she said if she can she informed her son that playing football handle it, then I can handle it.” this fall with the necessary restrictions Taking precautions being imposed has her blessing. “Handling it” is what all NFL players Sharpen your parenting skills by visiting “My mom is a nurse, so she deals with have had to do since the coronavirus ParentingTN.org. the corona all day,’’ Mack says. “But for pandemic hit in March. It’s not unlike me, you don’t want to get anyone sick, TITANS >> PAGE 21 shutterstock.com Nissan Stadium will bear witness to a season like no other in 2020 with no preseason games and the possibility of a regular season with no fans or a fraction of the 69,000-plus capacity . JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2020 www.TNLedger.com Page 3 ‘Historic’ price escalation What connects new school year, buying new house? With the number of COVID cases growing and the White House slapping the city on the wrist for its behavior, it would seem logical RICHARD shutterstock.com COURTNEY that residential real REALTY estate activity would CHECK slow. Yet it continues Wash, rinse, repeat to move forward. 114 Mayfair Road Signs for open houses can once again be seen in yards Cherokee Road is the main thoroughfare Ledger Mundane can be across the area each Sunday, adorning the in the area. landscape trying to survive in the heat. Naming the street and the development The power of Attendance is off in the open houses, after the Native American tribe was as information. golden in times but people continue to shop. Most are far as the developer went with the Native masked, while others are defi ant in their American theme. Included in Cherokee Published weekly by Westview Newspaper, LLC refusal. Some say they simply forgot to Park are streets such as Lauderdale, Valley, Mockingbird and Aberdeen, all of turbulence pack a mask, not knowing they would 222 Second Ave. N. Suite 101 bordering the Historic Richland-West happen upon an open house that might Nashville, TN 37201 Some years back a friend and I were End neighborhood to the east. (615) 254-5522 be of interest. FAX: (615) 254-5525 navigating remarkably similar choppy Somewhere along the way, those A couple of the primary election Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m waters on the sea of life. We lived hundreds dwelling in Cherokee Park decided that if races have become heated and, from of miles apart but kept regular tabs on each Richland is historic, Cherokee Park could neighborhood to neighborhood, the President & Chairman others well-being via the most advanced be, as well. So when Caroline Rosenberg Peter Schutt yard signs usually portend how voting communication devices of the day: landline listed her home at 114 Mayfair Road, she Publisher & CEO will go in those respective districts in the Eric Barnes JOE telephones. opted in to the Historic Cherokee Park ROGERS primaries and general election. Counting Associate Publisher Calls would typically start with classifi cation, describing her house as “an & Executive Editor MY TAKE yard signs is an inexpensive, unscientifi c Lyle Graves something like this: How are you? What are updated ranch in the heart of Historic way of seeing how the elections will go. [email protected] you up to? Cherokee Park.” Planning Editor As a rule, presidential election years Th e response, from either side, was typically this: OK. Just A doctor from Texas recently asked Cindy Smith tend to be good for real estate, as there [email protected] doing the dishes. a group of Nashvillians the diff erence seems to be a magic button that sitting Contributors We meant “doing the dishes” partly in the literal sense, there between a ranch and a farm. Th e best Chip Cirillo presidents running for reelection can being no one else in our households to tend to the task. But it answer any in attendance could off er was Sheila Burke push that make the economy – especially Kathy Carlson was also fi gurative, a metaphor of sorts – shorthand – for taking that ranches are farms in Texas. Ranch- Hollie Deese real estate – soar around the time of care of all the unexciting, mundane chores that help reinstill style houses, however, can be anywhere, Tim Ghianni the election. Th e button is likely less Joe Morris order and sanity to lives that had been seriously lacking in both. and Nashville is loaded with them. Th is Rhiannon Potkey of a weapon this year with COVID-19 Whatever else might or might not have been going on with one being historic. Tom Wood framing the debate. Offi ce Manager us, the dishes had to be done. Even now, with a full-time partner Rosenberg is with Th e Josh Anderson Donna Gosnell Still, residential real estate in the on the premises to share household duties as well as an appliance Group Real Estate Services, LLC, the Art Director Greater Nashville area is set to continue to Mike Hopey whose sole function it is to render dishes clean, I often prefer off spring of entrepreneur Josh Anderson, break records in spite of COVID-19. [email protected] taking the task on by hand. who has built a dynasty with the Graphic Designer Another landmark date for spiking Leigh Melton Singleton For one thing, there are few activities that provide such marketing, recruiting and training a solid real estate sales is the day schools open in immediate and appreciable evidence of the progress made.